Post Pics of your Leghorns

[EmHuffman]

I think I ended up with an Exchequer Leghorn and, having never had leghorns, I thought the large comb and long tail feathers meant I had a cockerel. However, I've been googling pics and think this may be a hen after all!! Can anyone more familiar with Leghorns positively sex him/her for me? Age is approx 23-24 weeks. I will be so stoked if this is a hen!

 

[Alaskan]

I think I ended up with an Exchequer Leghorn and, having never had leghorns, I thought the large comb and long tail feathers meant I had a cockerel. However, I've been googling pics and think this may be a hen after all!! Can anyone more familiar with Leghorns positively sex him/her for me? Age is approx 23-24 weeks. I will be so stoked if this is a hen!

23 weeks....clearly a female. No saddle feathers, or hackle feathers. Very pretty girl, also look at her very feminine face.

 

[cmom]

female (Pullet)

 

[pioneerchick816]

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This is my flighty MRS. PATMORE (which is a perfect name for her as it turned out) she squawks & warns of all apparent dangers. She's about 18 weeks old

 

[cmom]

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This is my flighty MRS. PATMORE (which is a perfect name for her as it turned out) she squawks & warns of all apparent dangers. She's about 18 weeks old

My White Leghorns are more flighty than my Brown Leghorns. My Whites always find a way out and back into their pens and coops. The Browns haven't yet.

 

[pioneerchick816]

@cmom
I'm kinda afraid to get any whites. Do you think they're more visible to predators? I've stuck with browns/darker colors across the board pretty much. I have a mixer of 8 different birds. First flock too

Proud feather momma

 

[cmom]

My White Leghorns are like roadrunners. They zoom around. I have had some hawks hanging around, we feed a lot of birds. I saw a Red-Tailed, Sharp-shinned and Coopers hawks. The Red-Tailed prefers rodents. Recently we noticed we haven't seen the Fox Squirrels around and they are at their feeder every day. Guess the Red-Tailed ate most of the squirrels. The Sharp-shinned and Coopers hawks are bird predators. So far I haven't lost a bird to a hawk in a very long time. I have never lost a Leghorn to a hawk. Have lost a couple of Rhode Island White's but that's been a few years ago.

 

[pioneerchick816]

@cmom
Mrs. Patmore is super fast & really watches out for the others too. We have hawks but my birds are still pretty young and I haven't let them out to free range much. I have cover over the run. I'll take that into consideration if I want to get a white. Thanks

 

[cmom]

All of my pens are covered as well as electric around them all too. It's like fort knox.

 

[Alaskan]

My white birds are usually eaten first.


But there are do many predators around me... i really need to keep all of mine locked up.