Post Pics of your Leghorns

[Janelyn]

My girls have been laying for a few months. Yesterday I went out to the coop and one was in the oddest position, standing up with her back against the nesting box wall, pushing like crazy. It sort of made me panic, egg bound ?

I thought it might be sort of a "watched pot" thing, so I went in the house for 5 minutes. When I went back out, Salt was walking around, squawking like normal. Well, she has the biggest egg, no wonder it looked odd.
The egg on the right is normal size, but the other is almost twice the size. Wow!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Leghorns are known to lay double yokers. If you really watch hens lay, as they are laying they all pretty much stand up when the egg is coming out.

 

[choptank330]

These are my two exchequer chicks and my two white leghorn girls!!

 

[Michael Apple]

Nice looking Leghorns, Choptank. I'd like to get some Exchequers someday.

 

[choptank330]

Thank you !! I love the exchequers, they are very nice looking. I can't wait until they are about 6 weeks old

 

[Gifa]

My Brown Leghorn, Zoe, was getting a little picked on during her molt... So... I made her a brown coat.






Here's an in progress shot of the breast piece from yesterday

 

[anirishfarmer]

lovely pics peeps

i must get a few up of my girl Blondie

now that's a cools coat Gifa ,care to share

how it's made

Health and happiness

 

[Gifa]

lovely pics peeps

i must get a few up of my girl Blondie

now that's a cools coat Gifa ,care to share

how it's made

Health and happiness

It's just cheap felt from a craft store, some cotton thread, a couple/few clasps under the wing area (could have used buttons) and some decorative bamboo cord stitches.





I didn't work from a pattern, if that's what you mean... It's all handcut and hand sewn... I had to do two "fittings" to get it this far.

I'd need to create a pattern from this one to share it.

 

[browning6]

Is this not the prettiest cross bred hen you have ever seen?

This is a hen i raised. She is from a brown leghorn hen and a Cuckoo maran rooster.

I think this hen is one of the prettiest hens i ever raised. What do you think?

 

[smarsh]

Is this not the prettiest cross bred hen you have ever seen?

This is a hen i raised. She is from a brown leghorn hen and a Cuckoo maran rooster.

I think this hen is one of the prettiest hens i ever raised. What do you think?

i had a hen the exact same coloring out of a brown leghorn and white wyandotte rooster. she had a rose comb and was chubbier. They kept the hen pattern but with the silver gene turning the background color to white instead of red, leaving only the red of the breast which is a different gene that the red for the body.