LEGHORNS! Tell me about them.

[shelleyb1969]

Not too far for UPS!

Actually, I used to live in Wilkinson, Indiana.

 

[kelliepulido]

I have cochin,leghorn crosses in the bator 10 little fluffies.Hoping that will be a nice mix for laying yet abit mellowed with the cochin blood.

 

[SpottedCrow]

My Jerry Remy was a great roo. He loved to be held and petted. I got him and Tom Brunanski, my EE pullet as 6 day olds from my DS's school.

Obelisk the Tormentor is a freakin spazz!!! She doesn't like to be held, petted only when she wants which isn't often and is basically a feathery cat, aloof and regal. I got her at a few months old from a place where she was treated like (gasp) a chicken.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Someone has the user name Attack Chicken???

Oh that's too much!

I want some of your Leghorn eggs. Mine are sweethearts too.

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

We have one white and two brown leghorn chickens they lay wonderful eggs, I have no problem with their personalities since ours our not pets. My wife is always threatening to clip one of the brown leghorns wings, she likes to fly up to the roof of our house or into the trees, it doesn't bother me but she worries she will dirty up the roof.

 

[apukanski]

I have eleven white leghorns, three that get out of the coop on a regular basis. When you come upon them, they squat like they think it makes them invisible. the kids like it, they get to hold one for a minute putting it back in they are too funny sometimes.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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That's so funny. Mine do the squat too. It's like they are saying "OK
you got me"

 

[patandchickens]

I'm thinking a lot about leghorns at the moment, too. Specifically the RC varieties -- I don't want to have to worry about the giant big single combs in winter.

It has been suggested to me a couple times, although mostly from people with bantam leghorns, that show-bred lines tend to be less skittish than production type lines. Does anyone else have an opinion on whether this does/doesn't seem to be true, especially with regard to regular-sized leghorns?

Pat

 

[mamaKate]

I kept Leghons in a mixed flock. Those I raised from chicks were friendly and smart, but the roos had an ornery streak. The hens I bought as adults were just normal chickens. They liked me enough that I was constanly having to clean the mess off the porch.

 

[silkiechicken]

I think strain will have a big impact on their personalities too. If you get birds raised from commercial stock for commercial production, they come with a skittish personality. Go for the "rarer" types, rose combs, nice colors, breeders, and so on, you'll probably have a MUCH greater chance of a nice bird just like other normal production bird because the egg emphasis was an issue but not the primary issue.

I'm convinced all white leghorns are really brown though, since PNW = mud = dirt colored leghorns.