Isabella Leghorns

[Poodlemum]

My friend is getting me in so much trouble! She saw some Isabella leghorns at a local feed store and I just had to have some I’d love to see pics and hear what you like/don’t like about them!

 

[Perris]

I have just one, and he's a cockerel, but he's a lovely addition to the flock. He looks gorgeous, sounds comic (toots; squeaked as a youngster) but he's first to call everyone to dinner when I take it out. He's a good subordinate to the dominant roo, and stands 3rd out of 4 in their hierarchy - positions established by who runs from whom rather than by fighting (as yet). He's the best flyer in the flock (regularly flies up 8 ft to a branch in the holm oak, where he crows, and has been seen flying >16 ft horizontally), and a good lookout and tid-bitter.
He'll be 1 in the first week of June, so these are all juvenile attributes and behaviours. I expect we'll find out what he's like as a dad this summer...

 

[ColtHandorf]

@The Moonshiner @JacinLarkwell

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'll have to search for pics of the trio I had

 

[ColtHandorf]

I'll have to search for pics of the trio I had

Crayolas might be more effective?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Crayolas might be more effective?

Ha ha hah.

One of my girls had toyed with brooding, so she was pretty still for a picture or two

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They were all pretty young at this point. Hamilton, my male, had wing patch pretty bad, but the females didn't ever get poor looking.

 

[Poodlemum]

I have just one, and he's a cockerel, but he's a lovely addition to the flock. He looks gorgeous, sounds comic (toots; squeaked as a youngster) but he's first to call everyone to dinner when I take it out. He's a good subordinate to the dominant roo, and stands 3rd out of 4 in their hierarchy - positions established by who runs from whom rather than by fighting (as yet). He's the best flyer in the flock (regularly flies up 8 ft to a branch in the holm oak, where he crows, and has been seen flying >16 ft horizontally), and a good lookout and tid-bitter.
He'll be 1 in the first week of June, so these are all juvenile attributes and behaviours. I expect we'll find out what he's like as a dad this summer...
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Oh he’s handsome!!!

 

[Poodlemum]

They were all pretty young at this point. Hamilton, my male, had wing patch pretty bad, but the females didn't ever get poor looking.
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Such gorgeous birds I’m excited to see mine grow! Sassy little things lol

 

[Mon-12]

I have a 5-week old Isabella leghorn and I love her! She is the first one to come to me and most adventurous since day 1. I am just not sure if it might be a cockerel. I hope not! I bought her as a sexed pullet. But she has always been the most brave, dominant, and has a very standing pose. I do not have other Isabella Leghorn to compare to. Any thoughts on pullet vs. cockerel?