White Leghorn Egg Color

[ChickenCanoe]

That sound Spanish, more Atlantean than Mediterrainian.

According to the APA, they've divided LF into six categories or classes, largely based on their origin. They are American, Asiatic, Continental, English, Mediterranean, and All Other.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Not inbred but crossbred. All Leghorns should lay a pearl white egg. Virtually all the commercially produced white grocery eggs in the world are from a Leghorn or Leghorn hybrid.
Other varieties of Leghorns are Dark Brown, Light Brown, Buff, Black, Silver, Red, Black-Tailed Red, Columbian. There are others yet the white leghorn is the most prolific but regardless of variety, they will still lay a white egg.
I raised both whites and blacks. I think they are great chickens.

Thank you

 

[nicalandia]

There are strains of White Leghorns and Ancona lines that lay tinted eggs, you see pearl white eggs do require some form of dilution genes that on some strains are either damaged or mutated to a less effective dilution.

here is an old science research about it.
Inheritance of Tinted Eggshell Colors in White-Shell Stocks
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien...6ec1338&pid=1-s2.0-S003257911933528X-main.pdf