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I believe they represent what the Original leghorns were good at, Laying Large white eggs and lots of them. I believe they are the closest thing to the original breed standar before there were any breed standard or chickes were shown..
You think so? Gee, it's hard to imagine hatcheries and commercial farms being the best source of chickens!
I know Leghorns were developed for egg-laying purposes, but I still think breeder birds are better than commercial strains because breeder WL's don't usually have as many health problems as commercial WL's.
It all depends on what you want them for. Breeder leghorns will mature much later, and will never lay as many eggs, nor as large, nor as cheaply as commercial birds. That's not all bad, but, if you want lots of eggs quickly, you can never beat the commercial birds. Not everyone wants or needs showbirds. If the showbirds were better birds all around, the large egg farmers would use them for production. Hatcheries are the best source for egg production birds if you want to make money selling eating eggs. Or just have some layers in the yard and don't care about breeding or showing. I'm sure you would agree a gamefowl ought to be game, yes? Well, a leghorn ought to lay lots of big eggs cheaply, and mature fast. That's the purpose of the breed, and, for some breeds, the hatcheries produce great birds, NOT show birds, but birds bred for a purpose. I personally like my show type leghorns, but, they would never compete with commercial whites in an egg laying contest.
I believe they represent what the Original leghorns were good at, Laying Large white eggs and lots of them. I believe they are the closest thing to the original breed standar before there were any breed standard or chickes were shown..
You think so? Gee, it's hard to imagine hatcheries and commercial farms being the best source of chickens!
It all depends on what you want them for. Breeder leghorns will mature much later, and will never lay as many eggs, nor as large, nor as cheaply as commercial birds. That's not all bad, but, if you want lots of eggs quickly, you can never beat the commercial birds. Not everyone wants or needs showbirds. If the showbirds were better birds all around, the large egg farmers would use them for production. Hatcheries are the best source for egg production birds if you want to make money selling eating eggs. Or just have some layers in the yard and don't care about breeding or showing. I'm sure you would agree a gamefowl ought to be game, yes? Well, a leghorn ought to lay lots of big eggs cheaply, and mature fast. That's the purpose of the breed, and, for some breeds, the hatcheries produce great birds, NOT show birds, but birds bred for a purpose. I personally like my show type leghorns, but, they would never compete with commercial whites in an egg laying contest.
