Leghorn Thread

[speedy2020]

Can someone tell me if the Leghorn line with comb flopped over lay more egg than the straight comb or not?

 

[Alaskan]

Can someone tell me if the Leghorn line with comb flopped over lay more egg than the straight comb or not?

That I can't tell you. However, a leghorn hen is supposed to have a flopped over comb, so one without a flopped over comb is either very young (it does take a while to get large enough to flop over), or isn't up to standard.

Of course I say that...and I am not sure if I actually read that in the standard. silly me.

 

[speedy2020]

That I can't tell you. However, a leghorn hen is supposed to have a flopped over comb, so one without a flopped over comb is either very young (it does take a while to get large enough to flop over), or isn't up to standard.

Of course I say that...and I am not sure if I actually read that in the standard. silly me.

Is the one with larger comb lay better than lower comb?

 

[billkaroly]

Is the one with larger comb lay better than lower comb?

Here's something funny. My two Leggies are 23 weeks young and I cannot tell you if THEY have flopped over combs yet or not myself. But man! They are egg layin' mochenes! Boom shockalocka Boom! My Buff Orpies are not so bad either. I am pretty sure my girls' combs are not floppy yet but just about. Some people I know around the corner have some much older than ours and theirs are floppy.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Can someone tell me if the Leghorn line with comb flopped over lay more egg than the straight comb or not?

There are rose comb leghorns and strait comb leghorns. There is no little comb, big comb ones. They all should get the big combs and the size f he com won't effect how they lay at all

 

[Cynthia12]

My leghorn at this time has the most flopped over comb than any other leghorn I've had..I love it. She is so sweet. She lays an egg a day for me.

 

[lazy gardener]

First Rose Comb Brown Leghorn egg today. Girls are about 21 weeks old. Also getting Pioneer, Dominique, and home bred sex link eggs (lovely blue and green shades!) from girls of the same age. SLW is the only breed who is not yet laying, but I don't expect her to start laying as early.

 

[Alaskan]

First Rose Comb Brown Leghorn egg today.  Girls are about 21 weeks old.  Also getting Pioneer, Dominique, and home bred sex link eggs (lovely blue and green shades!)  from girls of the same age.  SLW is the only breed who is not yet laying, but I don't expect her to start laying as early.

Yeah! I would love to know how their laying rates compare, please keep us updated.

 

[chiklee]

Yeah! I would love to know how their laying rates compare, please keep us updated.

Here is ozzie and harriot both RC brown leghorns I have 7 hens and 1 rooster I get 5-6 pullet eggs a day the eggs are real small yet but a few.and believe it or not they are double yoke . any one else getting the double yoke pullet eggs from the leghorns ? I never seen so many double yokes at once and with the eggs being so small.

 

[lazy gardener]

Chiklee: Do you just have the RCBL, or do you have other breeds? If so, how are the leghorns blending in with the rest of your flock?

How 'bout you, Alaskan? From what I'm reading, your flock dynamics are similar to mine. I'm finding that, for this year's birds, the pecking order is: Black sex-links, followed by RCBL, then SLW and Dominiques, and the Pioneer at the bottom of the heap. So far, the pecking order is pretty benign, basically about taking turns at the food dish, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out this winter.