Leghorn Thread

[chiklee]

I have pure speckled Sussex just a hen and her chicks not together yet I am planning to put her in with the RCLH in due time . She is the older and very bossy so I am guessing she will first on the pecking list. I only keep her for her broodiness. A good mother The leghorn is just a experiment right now the rooster is very mean with the hens he rapes them and chases them in a terrible way. He flings at the coop when I walk by. He is in time out right now . If this don't work off with his head. I don't put up with mean roosters

 

[lazy gardener]

Sounds like he'd be a nice fit for your crock pot. If he tries to attack you through the fence, I don't think there's any rehab for that boy.

 

[Alaskan]

Some boys though calm down after the initial hormone rush, at least in the "attacking the hens" part.

However, I am not so lenient with attacking people, but I might give it a month if he is your only rooster.

We currently have a horrid d'uccle rooster that we have put up with because 1. He is the only d'uccle rooster we have, and we made a good deal of money selling fertile eggs and chicks and 2. The second that the little d'uccle cockerels are older and we are not so worried about loosing them, we will kill the mean one, but we do not want to kill him until we know we have a replacement.

Back to leghorns, mine aren't laying yet..unless their eggs are sneeking into the egg basket as d'uccle eggs (which is possible). I will have to look more closely. BUT, my dark brown pullets are NOT colored up. My two RC white leghorns are very red, so might be laying.

My three dark brown roosters are nice at present.

As to flock dynamics..right now it is fully by age. As well as when I put them into the main coop.

I am in a bit of a panic right now....I thought I was going to have a second coop before winter, and the spouse threw a fit....and I am not sure how my last set of chicks are going to fit into the same coop as all the others without any issues.

I thought I was gonna have more space, I don't....... Not sure yet what to do.

On the other leghorn thread, I asked about the SOP. All of the SOP stuff I have seen, it looks like the ideal Leghorn is supposed to have a shorter back than mine do.

Anyone have any comments about that?

 

[lazy gardener]

I have no idea about SOP, but any leghorn I've ever known has been long and lean.

 

[Alaskan]

I have no idea about SOP, but any leghorn I've ever known has been long and lean.

Yes, long and lean and streamlined. but this is what the male is supposed to look like:


Mine have a very long and straight back with a very low tail, almost Heritage Rhode Island Red with the tail (not the body type).

 

[Alaskan]

bad pictures not mine own.

I shall try again:

 

[lazy gardener]

All 3 of my RCBL are now laying. 2 of them even put them in the nest box today. One of the girls still doesn't have that one figured out yet, and her egg was covered in yolk. I hope she doesn't have any laying problems, and is just getting the machinery figured out. One of them was a tiny double yolker. For comparison, I have at least 2/3 doms laying, all 4 BSL are laying green eggs, and one of them is now laying an egg that rivals the size of my hen eggs. May have gotten a first egg from the SLW today. Found a large mystery brown egg.

 

[Alaskan]

yep, my RC dark brown leghorns are slow on the egg laying too.

 

[lazy gardener]

But, once they get the machinery oiled, and get some size, they'll be awesome.

 

[Alaskan]

But, once they get the machinery oiled, and get some size, they'll be awesome.

I hope so