I have been planing to add some white layers to my flock and was think brown leghorns but then I saw the black Minorcas. Wow! Beautiful birds. The little that I've read seems that Minorcas are a little calmer than leghorns but lay less. Would anyone care to enlighten me more on this or correct anything?
Thanks
I have had White Leghorns and now I have Buff Minorcas, which tend to be smaller than the Blacks.
My opinion:
Leghorns: get worried and fret when I come in the coop and they are in there (unless in nest box)
Minorcas: same thing
Leghorns: will fly up tree at first opportunity- will not stay in pen happily all the time
Minorcas: stay in pen pretty well (VERY large pen) and not flying up tree- only have come out of pen when startled and flew over fence
Leghorns: lay pretty much daily (only kept during pullet year)
Minorcas: lay pretty much daily (still in pullet year now) eggs are still pullet sized, but good sized (not bantam sized)
Leghorns: sweet personality from my experience until they started pecking my rooster in a group of 4 as if they were going to try to make a hole in him
Minorcas: no picking or pecking feathers, nothing bad!
I love my Minorca cockerels. They are so non-aggressive and they get along OK together, as they were raised together. They do spar a bit now and then but settle it just fine.
I hope this helps. I have not had the Minorcas very long but those are my impressions.
If you may want both, I'd get both together as chicks so they all get along together and then eliminate a breed if you decide you don't want to keep them.
