Leghorn Thread!!!

[MissChick@dee]

Sounds like some fun projects.
Keep us posted I'd love to see your progress.
Glad to see this thread active again.
I dropped off of it as soon as a grown man started asking to see pics of myself with the birds. Lol sounded more then a bit creepy.

Not gonna touch that one with a ten foot pole.

 

[Tbird84]

in all seriousness, that is weird.

 

[chkncrazy]

Sounds like some fun projects.
Keep us posted I'd love to see your progress.
Glad to see this thread active again.
I dropped off of it as soon as a grown man started asking to see pics of myself with the birds. Lol sounded more then a bit creepy.

 

[chkncrazy]

My leghorns I got about a month ago, have warmed right up to me!!!! Flighty my tail feather!!!! They are eating out the palm of my hand ....literally...I would like to post pics.... If someone can instruct me to how.... I used to know but I think BYC changed their format ... Anywho nice to see y'all chatting ...yay

 

[Tbird84]

I swear I step on mine on a regular basis. They definitely seem to tame down after they hit laying age.

 

[kickinthethroat]

Here's a long Leghorn story, happened 2 days ago:

So I just got a chicken tractor set up, and I was moving chickens in the tractor to the coop, and chickens in the coop to the tractor.

I started with the little ones in the tractor, got them in the coop easy. Tractor is empty.

Then I went to the coop, started with my 2 roos thinking they'd put up a fight, but I snagged them with my chicken hook easy.

Then started with the ladies... Harder to hook, took some time...but... got 3.

1 hen remaining.

This hen... Was trouble. There is reason why she was last... Super fast, never comes close.

Anyway, she sees light through the door to the coop, pushes it open, she's free.

Makes a straight line for the thick woods next to the coop. She's gone. No way I can get her in there.

I'm pacing back and forth, trying to see... About 30 minutes I give up, start going inside..

Then, she peeks her head out of the woods, I run to get on the other side of her so she comes out of the woods. It works.

But now I have to actually catch her... And she won't let me get within 40 feet. I am hating this hen . So much.

I ditch the chicken hook and get my net.

Hen goes to the chicken tractor.. she wants to be with the roo

I open it a little bit, and have her go that way hoping she will go in.

Nope.

I try again, open it a little wider. Mind you this is probably 2 hours at this point of trying to get this hen.

Hen gets close to the door... Doesn't go in... Starts to run away

BUT, Roo comes out! He grabs her to mate!

My chance! Net comes down, I try to net them both mid-act.

Rooster somehow dodges it, but I get the hen!

With the hen in the net, I use the pole to guide the roo in and close the cage. Done!

I got some Australorps coming in a few weeks, hopefully they are easier to handle

 

[Tbird84]

Here's a long Leghorn story, happened 2 days ago:

So I just got a chicken tractor set up, and I was moving chickens in the tractor to the coop, and chickens in the coop to the tractor.

I started with the little ones in the tractor, got them in the coop easy. Tractor is empty.

Then I went to the coop, started with my 2 roos thinking they'd put up a fight, but I snagged them with my chicken hook easy.

Then started with the ladies... Harder to hook, took some time...but... got 3.

1 hen remaining.

This hen... Was trouble. There is reason why she was last... Super fast, never comes close.

Anyway, she sees light through the door to the coop, pushes it open, she's free.

Makes a straight line for the thick woods next to the coop. She's gone. No way I can get her in there.

I'm pacing back and forth, trying to see... About 30 minutes I give up, start going inside..

Then, she peeks her head out of the woods, I run to get on the other side of her so she comes out of the woods. It works.

But now I have to actually catch her... And she won't let me get within 40 feet. I am hating this hen . So much.

I ditch the chicken hook and get my net.

Hen goes to the chicken tractor.. she wants to be with the roo

I open it a little bit, and have her go that way hoping she will go in.

Nope.

I try again, open it a little wider. Mind you this is probably 2 hours at this point of trying to get this hen.

Hen gets close to the door... Doesn't go in... Starts to run away

BUT, Roo comes out! He grabs her to mate!

My chance! Net comes down, I try to net them both mid-act.

Rooster somehow dodges it, but I get the hen!

With the hen in the net, I use the pole to guide the roo in and close the cage. Done!

I got some Australorps coming in a few weeks, hopefully they are easier to handle

Omg, that sounds like how it went with me one afternoon when I tried to round everyone up after a hawk took a swoop. I had a leghorn hen and cochin hen give me the worst time. Who thought a cochin could move that quick? Lol.

 

[chkncrazy]

I swear I step on mine on a regular basis. They definitely seem to tame down after they hit laying age.

Me tooooo they're always under foot!!!!!!

 

[Tbird84]

Does anyone have advice for eliminating extended white in the face? I have a couple hens that were breeder prospects, until they hit their 2nd year. Then the white showed up. I hear that can be a common issue. So, is that something people accept or do we wait until their 2nd year to see if it crops up?

 

[Compost King]

My new toy, the trail cam, was placed in a Leghorn pen today, here is an 11 second clip of leghorns hanging out.