Anyone Else Really Unimpressed With Their Leghorns?

[BantyChooks]

I think they were replying to the other person above them...

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[Leigti]

Do they free range?Maybe they made a nest somewhere else and you haven't found it yet.

 

[Chickenmanjim7]

I misunderstood I thought you were getting 1-2 eggs from your leghorns.

 

[Chickenmanjim7]

Nevermind completely. I must have been half asleep

 

[amynrichie]

Do they free range?Maybe they made a nest somewhere else and you haven't found it yet.

I wonder this myself. Every time I started getting short on white eggs, I would have to cut back on free ranging. Sometimes I found an old nest, but most times not. The leghorns were the sneakiest about it!

 

[Leigti]

I wonder this myself. Every time I started getting short on white eggs, I would have to cut back on free ranging. Sometimes I found an old nest, but most times not. The leghorns were the sneakiest about it!

Twice I have found large nests of eggs. Once there was 22 of them and once there was 17! The culprits were my SLW and black australorp. I just figured they weren't laying eggs every single day. I put a nest box out in the yard, this seems to have worked, I just put a fake egg in there and now if they don't lay in the coop they will lay in that nest box in the yard.

 

[kgb6days]

My two leghorns were the first to lay at 16 weeks. Since then I've gotten eggs from them almost daily. They aren't big yet but consistent
Kristy

 

[camasbackyard]

I have 7 leghorns that I am really unimpressed with. I am getting 1 to 2 eggs from them a day. You hear all the hype about how great and efficient they are at laying yet to me they are underwhelming. Anyone else have lazy leghorns?

 

[camasbackyard]

My leghorns are my most dependable layers and they lay huge eggs...

 

[Mahlzeit]

Do they free range?Maybe they made a nest somewhere else and you haven't found it yet.

They don't free range they are in a large run but there are no nests of eggs anywhere in the run. They just aren't laying. All my others are laying great just not the leghorns.