MrFluffyandGirls
Crowing
Question...Since you have leghorns. I hear leghorns seldom go broody. What is your experience with yours going broody? Often? Or not really at all?
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It never happened in the years I had them. There are theories that if let go they would eventually become broody again. In American leghorns are normally culled when they stop laying at a high rate. Leghorns in Italy go broody just like any other chicken.Question...Since you have leghorns. I hear leghorns seldom go broody. What is your experience with yours going broody? Often? Or not really at all?
That's good to know because when keeping chickens primarily for eggs then that should not be a issue. I can appreciate not dealing with a chicken wanting to hatch eggs instead of lay them. Ha,ha, Thanks for the reply!It never happened in the years I had them. There are theories that if let go they would eventually become broody again. In American leghorns are normally culled when they stop laying at a high rate. Leghorns in Italy go broody just like any other chicken.
Oh! totally! Australorps and Orpington in the tub, I had wood chip dust ALL over the bathroomI never realized how much they kick up until we did two chicks in a brooder in the house. Just amazing the amount of dust they created in just a few weeks.
So far, only one get kind of for one week in February, I just kept tossing her out on the box when ever I went out to the coop.Question...Since you have leghorns. I hear leghorns seldom go broody. What is your experience with yours going broody? Often? Or not really at all?
Very odd! why do they, what do they do different in Italy?It never happened in the years I had them. There are theories that if let go they would eventually become broody again. In American leghorns are normally culled when they stop laying at a high rate. Leghorns in Italy go broody just like any other chicken.
In Italy they are not the little egg laying machines they are here. They lay at a much normal rate. Part of the breeding program in the US was to select for birds that did not have a tendency to go broody which costs you valuable egg laying time. Therefore no other chickens lay eggs at the rate of the US leghorn without stopping.Very odd! why do they, what do they do different in Italy?
Leghorns are the perfect egg laying chickens. Good choice.That's good to know because when keeping chickens primarily for eggs then that should not be a issue. I can appreciate not dealing with a chicken wanting to hatch eggs instead of lay them. Ha,ha, Thanks for the reply!
yes, and the other 11 went to my son he has 5 kids 4 boys and a girl. They go through a lot of eggs at breakfastLeghorns are the perfect egg laying chickens. Good choice.