Raising Chicks has been a Joy

[Kaddi143]

It's just a bad picture hers is red. She's very healthy and a bit coo coo had to remove Styrofoam blocks I had for a project I was working on because she liked to snack on it!!

Yes, she looks like a leghorn. Her comb tells me she needs more water. It should be redder, and fuller.

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If she is a rescue she may not have had a good diet. Do you have and electrolytes? / chick quick start?

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She was not well fed or cared for when she arrived. I would not have picked a leghorn due to serious hawk issues and habitat destruction from rapid growth in area. My property backs up to swamp Forrest and the hawks can spot her a mile away. I had one so bold three weeks ago it came so close to my flock I squirted it with water hose! I have saved 3 big RR in my flock while attacked and not in time for my sweet angel OESD before the hawk ripped her head off . The white is like dinner bells!

 

[Parront]

She was not well fed or cared for when she arrived. I would not have picked a leghorn due to serious hawk issues and habitat destruction from rapid growth in area. My property backs up to swamp Forrest and the hawks can spot her a mile away. I had one so bold three weeks ago it came so close to my flock I squirted it with water hose! I have saved 3 big RR in my flock while attacked and not in time for my sweet angel OESD before the hawk ripped her head off . The white is like dinner bells!

This is why I like my brown leg horn so much!

 

[GingerAndHerChicks]

I personally think they get a bad rap as flighty, skittish, neurotic freaks.

It is good to hear someone enjoying them.

I miss mine.

I have a brown leghorn and lives up to the flighty, & skittish. I’ve had it for 4 weeks and it’s 6 weeks old now.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

She is absolutely a White Leghorn

 

[Parront]

I have a brown leghorn and lives up to the flighty, & skittish. I’ve had it for 4 weeks and it’s 6 weeks old now.

Leghorns are like egg insurance— they eat less and lay more!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

She was not well fed or cared for when she arrived. I would not have picked a leghorn due to serious hawk issues and habitat destruction from rapid growth in area. My property backs up to swamp Forrest and the hawks can spot her a mile away. I had one so bold three weeks ago it came so close to my flock I squirted it with water hose! I have saved 3 big RR in my flock while attacked and not in time for my sweet angel OESD before the hawk ripped her head off . The white is like dinner bells!

And that is why my coop and run are like Fort Knox- Bob Cats, Mountain Lion, Coyotes, Hawks, Owls, Eagles......
I did have a Coopers Hawk get in ( I spent the last hour trying to find a pic of the run and the spot the hawk got in and I cant find it)
ANYWAY! it killed one of my first leghorn flock, there was 6 of them, then #5 died I dont know why, then I had 4 when I got 4 more current flock - one stopped eating and drinking, and I dont remember what happened to the other 2 but I still have one from the first flock she is 2--Hahahahaha sorry for the ramble Lolololololo

 

[21hens-incharge]

I have a brown leghorn and lives up to the flighty, & skittish. I’ve had it for 4 weeks and it’s 6 weeks old now.

Mine mellowed a lot once they started laying.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Grandma ... where did you get your Leghorn chicks from?

Murry McMurry Hatchery

 

[Michelley1001]

@GrandmaDeKorte i had to share this pic with you! We’ve chatted about leghorns on one of your other threads but I forgot to share this with you! Leghorns are the best. And the easiest of all my chickens to pick up and love on

Ps - this particular one was dirty from playing in the mud after a recent rainstorm

 

[Grandmas Coop]

@GrandmaDeKorte i had to share this pic with you! We’ve chatted about leghorns on one of your other threads but I forgot to share this with you! Leghorns are the best. And the easiest of all my chickens to pick up and love on

Ps - this particular one was dirty from playing in the mud after a recent rainstorm

Oh how sweet a photo this is!!! XXXOOO that baby is precious!!! and your (mud hen) Leghorn is a good sized one, is it a rooster?