Do you have a leghorn?

[jwchicklady]

I have 1 leghorn in a mixed flock of isa browns, bo, rir and australorp. she is a little flighty, but also quite sweet. I like her and wouldn't mind more.

 

[Kim_NC]

I always have 1-5 brown leghorns at any given time. I like having a few white eggs in my mix, and have a couple egg customers who prefer white eggs.

I don't think they're really any flightier than most other breeds. However, they don't like to be cornered inside and do scurry to go away from situations like that.

 

[Freeholder]

I had a few white leghorns and didn't find them any more flighty than any of the others I had at the same time. I don't try to make pets out of my chickens, so it's fine with me if they run away rather than letting me pick them up (if I want to catch them, I go out after dark and take them off the roosts), but the leghorns would follow me around and get closer than any of the others. I got rid of them only because of the large combs -- my chicken quarters are unheated and it does get quite cold here in the winter. If I get more leghorns, it will be rose combed ones.

Kathleen

 

[silkiechicken]

Till recently, I've always had a few and they would almost always be pulling up the flock in egg production year round. They laid eggs like mad from years 1-4. At one point, I had 3 young leghorns and they were giving me more eggs in the middle of winter than the eight 2-3 year old brown layers!

They were first to your feet, always a step behind when you weren't looking, but boy, don't try to catch one! They are flighty as all get out. A good thing here when they free range as they will get away from anything that might try to get them. Excellent production birds and full on silly. Not a cuddle bug though.

 

[Cornychick]

I agree. I have one brown leghorn in my mixed flock of 5 pullets. When she was a chick, she was the first to want to roost on the highest thing she could find, including us. Now, she is what I would say the most active/hyper of them all and prefers not to be caught. She is always on the lookout for the flock and I don't let them free range in our backyard as much because she wont stay off of the top of the privacy fence. (We are what you would call 'on the down low')
ETA: she is a reliable egg layer

 

[Mahonri]

I have one large Pearl White
one smallish Calf. White lays 3-4 a week
and one med sized Light Brown, lays 3-4 a week.

I love all three of them. The Pearl White only misses once or twice a week. I just hatched out one of her babies... crossed with a BW Ameraucana.. It is BEAUTIFUL.

 

[Tala]

I have 3. They are flighty -- as in they flap their wings and fuss about me walking too fast up to them, BUT they also come running across the yard for treats. They like me, but don't trust me. I can't catch them except off the roost, and then they throw a fit. Comparatively, I can pick up my Redstar off the ground almost anytime - and they were all raised together from ~3 days old.

They're great layers, the weather doesn't seem to affect them as much as it does my Redstar, but I do find wite eggs to be pretty boring

they look like supermarket eggs

I just don't like them as well. I'd rather not buy anymore Leghorns.

I'm sticking with dual purpose breeds from now on, although I'm not picky about them - I'll take sexlinks and mutts

 

[davidb]

I recently bought 2 white leghorns and 3 brown leghorn hens to try out, I free range my flock and like the big brown egg layers but for me, I was feeding to much feed for the eggs, I had planned to cross mine over my RIR or lorps, But I love my leghorns so much Im going to change over to them, I dont use any for meat and the leghorns are as calm as my others, so for free ranging I would say there the best breed to have for eggs

 

[Taylor]

I love leghorns!!!, have 2, 1 is flighty and the other one is so polite. everyday she makes her routes, she visits a few neighbors on the street. she goes on their back porches and goes up to their feet and let them rub her back. she does this everyday!!!!! she also lays huge jumbo eggs everyday. she hasn't missed 1 day in months. and when im sitting in the coop watching theem she will come up to me and jump up on my lap and sit there and stare at me in the eye for hours. I wouldn't take anything for her.

California whites I hate! I had one and she has only laid 3 eggs in a year, I hate them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Leghorns mix well in a flock of other chickens, you cant go wrong with leghorns

 

[HBuehler]

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Hey we need to keep it quiet..we will become known for being the flighty Lebanon people with all those Leghorns! I'm looking for a few more nice brown pullets right now.
If you like Leghorns it's not complete without Exechequer and Mille Fleur they add so much to the scenery.I keep an eye on those..everyone wants them when they see them and they are not for sale. Those are SO flighty though..they will fly right up to your shoulder if they can..flighty birds