White Leghorn, the forgotten breed

[Alaskan]

@cmom i am having some coop envy.

 

[cmom]

@cmom i am having some coop envy.

These coops are quite old and in need of attention and I'm getting too old. Last spring I put welded wire in all of my pens, replacing the chicken wire fences. I was sick and tired of replacing the chicken wire every few years because it rusted out. I'm sure the welded wire will too but will take a lot longer and at my age most of my life is behind me and now I'm just greatfull when I wake up each morning. We are old timers and hubby has Parkinson's so it is up to me. I've been thinking about how I'm going to get the roofs on.

 

[Alaskan]

Teenage neighbor with a love of cookies?

Also, boyscouts need to do a bunch of community service hours to rank up...call the local scout troop.

 

[Flock Master64]

Or if you have kids you can call them up and ask them to sit for you, since you raised them and all

 

[cmom]

Or if you have kids you can call them up and ask them to sit for you, since you raised them and all

My kids are old, 50+ and working. I like the boy-scout idea. I'm going to do one coop at a time but need to put the new roof on the roof I repaired first. I have the metal to redo 2 coops roofs and siding, just waiting for the weather to cool down a bit. Just cleaned out my last coop. The storm Hermine we had several days of on and off rain, nearly 6 inches. Many areas around us had significant flooding. The coops were a mess because the pens even though we are on top of a hill, the birds dragged in the mud and made a mess in the coops so I have been cleaning them out one at a time. The coop with the leaky roof I cleaned out more because from the leak it was a very muddy mess inside the coop and I wasn't getting on the roof until the weather cleared up. I wanted some good drying days before I repaired the roof so it could dry out too. It's not leaking anymore but I know it is a repair not fixed. Some of our friends had flood water in their homes.

 

[LunaChickie]

We got one of these girls with our mixed flock. She immediately laid us one of the biggest eggs we've ever seen. Unfortunately, then she broke her toe. She wouldn't walk for about a week so we kept her segregated. Happily, she made a mostly full recovery! She's about two weeks out and is walking with only a tiny limp. The toe looks awful but it's not bugging her. She's a trooper! She also got used to us handling her so we could clean up her area so she's a bit more friendly. What a cool breed! She's back to laying us some pretty huge eggs. They may not look fancy, but they're AWESOME chickens. I'll replace her with another when she goes!!

 

[Alaskan]

We got one of these girls with our mixed flock. She immediately laid us one of the biggest eggs we've ever seen. Unfortunately, then she broke her toe. She wouldn't walk for about a week so we kept her segregated. Happily, she made a mostly full recovery! She's about two weeks out and is walking with only a tiny limp. The toe looks awful but it's not bugging her. She's a trooper! She also got used to us handling her so we could clean up her area so she's a bit more friendly. What a cool breed! She's back to laying us some pretty huge eggs. They may not look fancy, but they're AWESOME chickens. I'll replace her with another when she goes!!

I am glad you are enjoying her.

 

[cmom]

It was nearly 50 years ago when I got my first flock of birds and they were White Leghorns.

 

[Flock Master64]

My first flock was a Buff Bramah roo a Black Copper Marans roo and a Blue Copper Marans hen

 

[Alaskan]

I kept refusing to buy leghorns... I was raised thinking that all good eggs were brown eggs.


Then, after I grew up and had my own chickens...one winter a dog busted into my coop and killed every single bird (over 40... And yes they had high oerches that they could have escaped to).

Anyway, when I in a panic tried to order chicks before all of the breeds I wanted were snapped up... They didn't have exactly what I wanted when
I wanted and I had to round up the order to the magic "25" ...... so added five white Leghorns!!!!!

Those five birds bowled me over with their production, even with zero heat and zero light in super dark Alaska... And there I was won over.

Of those five I have 2 left ... I can't remember how old they are... 4 or 5.