White Leg Horns

[cassie]

Back in the Dark Ages when I was a girl, people would buy straight run laying chickens and raise the cockerels for meat. I can remember my aunt frying up those leghorns cockerels. They were little but they had good flavor.

 

[hannah03]

Where can you buy leghorn chicks?

 

[Gooseluv]

She is so smart and curious all my chickens follow her around she lays every second day beautiful white eggs that fast so good

 

[havery]

I had 2 leghorns we processed around 16 weeks old. The first went as a roaster, barely had enough meat to feed a family of four (two of those four being toddlers). The second made chicken and dumplings and oh my! it was delicious! The best broth I've ever had.

 

[monica9321]

I just bought two white leg horn chicks. The guy at the feed store says they lay brown eggs and are not meat eaters. But my roommate says they ar. I feel bad we wanted egg layers. Who's right?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Sounds like the guy at the feed store may not know what he is talking about if that is really what he said. First, I’ll question if they are really leghorns. They may be and they may not from what he said. Leghorns lay white eggs, not brown, so that is a disconnect and causes me some concern about them being leghorns. If they truly are female white leghorns they should lay a lot of nice large white eggs.

And think hard about exactly what he said about meat eaters. All chickens will eat meat if given the opportunity. That’s just the way they are. But if he said Leghorns do not make good meat chickens, he is right. They are small-bodied chickens that don’t have much meat. They are bred to have those small bodies so most of what they eat goes into egg production instead of maintaining a large body. If you want hens that lay a lot of large white eggs, then leghorns is a great choice for you.

 

[monica9321]

Thank you for your information.