Super Friendly Leghorns-They do exist!! *PIC*

[PurpleChicken]

Nice Leggy.

My two are friendly and super smart. They are the only two hens
who know the trick to getting out of the run. They free range
by themselves and they lay the biggest eggs.

It's great to get home and have a Leghorn run up to you with
a bulging crop.

 

[FisherMOM]

This is a great picture and Vera is a beautiful bird. We just adopted 2 leghorns that are about 12 weeks old. Very skittish, but I plan to hold them a little each day. I hope that they come around. They scream bloody murder when I catch them as of now.

 

[jossanne]

Our 16wk leghorn, Pearl, is our friendliest pullet out of 5, including 2 BR's, a SLW and a minorca. She comes up and sits on our lap, walks under our knees when we're sitting on the ground, pecks at my DD's glasses, the rivets on my jeans, my ring and watch... she's a pest, and I love her! I sat out there trying to get good pics of my girls tonight, and the only one that came out well was this one with her behind my DD. We got them when they were 6 weeks old, and they weren't handled at all before that. So she's doing really well being friendly. PLUS she started laying this week, and has given 6 eggs in 6 days. Can't beat that!

 

[FisherMOM]

I would LOVE to see a picture of a Leghorn pullet. I am curious about the tails. Ours have perky tails and we are trying to figure out if one is a rooster.

do either of you have a body shot? I see that you cannot go by comb alone!

 

[FisherMOM]

oh, and Pearl is beautiful! We just names our Australorp, Pearl!

 

[jossanne]

This is the best body shot I can find of my girl tonight. If it's not good enough, I can try for better tomorrow...

One more, maybe the lighting's better.

 

[FisherMOM]

thanks jossanne. Does your girl carry her tail high most times, and a little fanned out? Seems to look like our girls tails. They are small now.. the birds I mean. Are there bantam leghorns?

I think that they are 12 weeks old.

 

[jossanne]

My girl carries her tail low most of the time. Occasionally it is up a bit higher, but not like a squirrel tail. I don't know about roos, as I've only had white leghorn girlies. And my girls' tails don't fan out pretty like a show bird. By 12 weeks old, you should start seeing pointy hackle and saddle feathers on a cockerel, I think. These pics of mine are 16 wks and about 14 wks.

 

[FisherMOM]

here are my new leghorns....

they are in a large dog crate in this picture...

 

[Sparrow]

Vera carries her tail as high as it will go I think. lol It is straight up in the air almost all the time, and she is definitely a pullet. Yours definitely look like girls to me.

Thanks for the compliments on her! I think she is so cute, and she is seriously tiny. She is noticeably smaller than my other girl, Simone, but they were both purchased as standard White Leghorns. I guess some are just more petite?