Brown Leghorns: Pics, Info, and Resources

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Dark browns male and female, a little younger, but males are getting adult feathers.

In this photo the one look directly towards the floor is a black, the rest are dark browns.


All dark browns

Do you have pictures of them as chicks?
 
The lighter ones are light brown, darker more chocolate are dark browns

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That looks like a dark brown leghorn
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They were supposed to be, I thought, Light Brown but were sold to me as just Brown Leghorns but after seeing your pictures I think you may be right. The chicks didn't look like the Light Brown chicks I saw lately so was wondering.
 
The lighter ones are light brown, darker more chocolate are dark browns


My chicks were darker chicks. They looked more like the darker chicks in the top picture and the chick in the bottom picture in the front. The didn't have the chipmunk markings. It looks like I may have the dark brown leghorns after all. That is what I wanted but had a very hard time finding browns. Now I need a new white male to go with my white girls. I recently lost my white male. He was fine one evening when I checked the birds the next morning he was dead in his coop.

 
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My chicks were darker chicks. They looked more like the darker chicks in the top picture and the chick in the bottom picture in the front. The didn't have the chipmunk markings. It looks like I may have the dark brown leghorns after all. That is what I wanted but had a very hard time finding browns. Now I need a new white male to go with my white girls. I recently lost my white male. He was fine one evening when I checked the birds the next morning he was dead in his coop.

I couldn't find a breeder of browns so I ordered from MM so I could get something going - better than nothing. I figured I'll work with the hatchery chicks until I can find a breeder one day. Gosh, that's a shame about your white leghorn rooster. Any idea what he died from?
 
Just curious but where did you get your Leghorns from? They're really nice.

I have gotten a couple of batches of eggs shipped to me.

The best ones by far have been from Fred Zillich, he is on the Facebook Brown Leghorn page. He is swamped with orders... not sure if he is still selling eggs this year... but I had to wait several months to get some more from him this past spring.

For grins and giggles I asked him to toss in some of his bantam single comb white Leghorns, and good golly are they stunners!!!!! Shipping eggs to Alaska is always a nightmare gamble, so out of I think a dozen or so eggs (can't remember now), I only got one trio, but it is true trio, one male and two girls and they are so crazy show worthy I boggle every time I look at them. The little cockerel doesn't have a perfect 5 point comb...but I think other than that you could stamp the standard right off of him.

His Rose Comb dark browns are not quite that good, but they are pretty darn close. The legs on them are not as bright yellow as I would like, and he has some single combs in his rose combs, but the feather width, tail carriage, and coloring is truly excellent. Not only that, but Fred Zillich culls heavily for quality egg producers... so you are getting more than just a fancy package.


Anyway, for easier to acquire birds... I think Cackle Hatchery is pretty good and I think they had both light and dark browns.

@cmom I have had some dark brown leghorns that were so dark that they looked almost solid chocolate/mahogany. However, if you looked super closely you could usually see at least a ghost of a bit of the chipmunk stripes. I didn't see a photo of my super dark chicks.... phewy.
 
Glenda Heywood

Fred Zillich is on facebook and still breeding leghorns. He has always had superior stock
He now lives in Mercer Missouri and raises
This years breeding pens include Black, Buff, White, Dark Brown, large Leghorns both R.C. and S.C. S.C.
White Leghorn bantams, Buff or Light Brahma bantams. S.C. Rhode Island Red both large and bantam. Buff Ducks
 

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