Yeah they are past laying age and it is a farm... so pet or no pet they all go. And good riddance to those leghorns too. Worst mistake anyone ever made was to buy themselves one of the brown ones, though any color is just bad.
As a kid all I ever knew were white Babcock Leghorns on Mom's farm so when I started backyard chickeneering I added a White Leghorn pullet. She was hatched and raised by 4H teens so she was somewhat tame when we acquired her. She was a kind alpha to our two Silkies for 3 years and put the mean Marans in her place but eventually our sweet White Leg went bonkers as we added more hens to the flock so we re-homed her after trying to give her a chance to settle down. We also re-homed the Buff Leghorns who were even more aggressive which surprised us -- we were hoping they would be calmer but no such luck. My DH found a place to re-home them all since the Legs were all good layers.
Now, I just want a peaceful backyard mix. I loved our Ameraucana with her pretty blue eggs but we lost her last year from complications brought on by our horrible heatwave. She was just too heavily underdowned and never fared well in our humid climate. We recently lost our sweet Black Silkie to ovarian cancer and lost our beautiful gentle Blue Bredas but our Cuckoo Breda seems to be a hardier variety and still with us. 3 new Dominique chicks will soon be big enough to transfer outside permanently with the two adult hens we have left -- a Cuckoo Breda and older Partridge Silkie.
61/2 year-old Partridge Silkie
Year-old Cuckoo Breda (tassle crest, feathered legs/toes)
2-month-old Dominique chicks - very pesty-friendly breed