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Well, extra kale for the leghornsIn Italy they are not the little egg laying machines they are here. They lay at a much normal rate. Part of the breeding program in the US was to select for birds that did not have a tendency to go broody which costs you valuable egg laying time. Therefore no other chickens lay eggs at the rate of the US leghorn without stopping.
In the net. In Italy they are as they once were. In the US we have breed them to be little egg laying machines