Brown Leghorns, White Leghorns...

[kbarrett]

I have some of both in my flock, 3 of the Ideal 236's & 2 Danish Brown Leghorns. They are ALL great layers of large white eggs. I have to agree with mtnhomechick with the brown's being very pretty birds.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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This has been exactly my experience, too. The eggs from the brown are smaller, too, though she is a bit younger.

 

[Duppydo]

I'm pretty happy with my hens, 16 white legorns and 9 new hampshire reds..my reds are about 7 month old and my leghorns 6 months..out of the 25 total, my best day was 22 eggs..the 9 reds have layed 9 brown eggs a day a few times and average 6-7 a day...one day i had 9 brown eggs and 13 white...so far i've had 2 jumbo double yolkers , one a leghorn, and one a red, the red was the biggest..i like my dual propose reds, and the legorns seem to eat as much as they do, but honesty don't know.Around where i live on long is. ny the dark colored dual purpose birds are easy to sell when they get older and less productive. The Latino community is fond of them and will spend 10 bucks per bird. I don't know how they cook them or why they prefer the older birds( someone mentioned better flavor), but they are not interested in white chickens, just darl colored ones..They older leghorns are basically only good for soup, but some do find they have enough meat to cook other ways...
In my area,you can make a good buck on a dual purpose bird, from the eggs and meat when she older, unless you like lots of older pet hens...! I'm pretty satisfied with my flock. I was just wondering about the brown leghorns, because they would blend in better than the whites with there surroundings. It would be harder for hawks to spot them , the whites stick out like a sore thumb..
I'd really like to try some of those black sex links, i work a few hrs a week at a local chicken farm, they have about 1200 laying hens, i've seen them lay a couple 1/4 lbers...!HUGE....! they also have very productive red stars.. they both lay large brown eggs....Merry Christmas everyone, i'll be out of town for 2 wks with no computer access...

 

[ole-crone]

We have brown leghorns too but have not had problems with their combs when we have problems with other breeds in the winter. I think it is because they flop over, next to the head and keep a bit warmer that way. All of our other chickens with single combs normally get a little frostbite - not the leghorns or minorcas.