White Leghorn, the forgotten breed

[capt cluck]

very well put. perty much says it all right there. i agree 100%

 

[kapie9969]

Im considering a few leghorns,For me its the egg to feed thing.Ive read many times about that.I think it would be cool to have an equal amount of leghorns and something like a production red or sex link and compare how much they eat and eggs produced.I dont think of leghorns as eating birds?but i guess any bird can be that in a pinch. You really need to think about how much your spending and what your getting out of it.I think of this as i look at my bantams,at five months only two out of six are laying so far,My sweet bantams well have to be thined out,so a few better egg layers are in the future.Yes i knew about this,the bantams are an egg incubator thing for the future.

 

[math ace]

I have a couple of white hatchery leghorns. However, I went to a chicken show last year and fell in love with the buff leghorns.
My white hatchery leghorns, all 3 of them, varied greatly when it came to egg production. One laid double yolkers all the time. I don't usually consider this a great thing. These girls end up with egg laying issues, usually. One laid great for the first year and then NOTHING... I mean she quit laying,,, NOTHING in the second year. She is going on 3 now and I keep her becuase she was part of my original flock. However, it was truly disappointing to have her totally STOP laying eggs after the first year. The last hatchery white leghorn has always been a faithful layer of the traditional large white eggs.

Since the girls are getting older now, I decided to try something different. Hence, my buff leghorns. . .
They are still too young to start laying yet. I will be interested in seeing how they perfomr compared to the hatchery whites...
They are around 18 weeks old in the photo.

 

[Brandi Leigh]

I like my Leggerns (yes, I know how it's really spelled). They produce more eggs on less feed and under all conditions than any other breed I've ever kept.

There is a prejudice against white eggs to be sure, but it can be overcome.

I don't have a good shot of the girls but here's one of a couple of the boys in the rooster pen I took the other day. The colored ones are ISA Brown boys.

Really cool picture!!!!

 

[Lisasfeathers]

I am so excited! I have 10 day one White Leghorn pullets coming 2/6/2013! I can't wait! I will have to post picture of my new babies when the time comes. Now, I will be complete with Road Island Red girls and White Leghorn girls! I am going to keep them seperated with a half wall and wire from my RIR girls when the time comes to put them out in the coop

In my eyes I will have the best of the brown and white egg layers.

 

[Lisasfeathers]

 

[kefiren]

i just wanted to chime in and say i got in some white leghorns (hatchery) due to the good things people said about them here on byc. i got them 2 summers ago. so they are on their second winter

still laying like pros. they don't look as pretty this year, but gosh, with all the work they do...an egg a day in darkest january, even here on the border of ma and nh where it is very cold and snowy.

their eggs are so fertile, always the best in the incubator.

strong shells

bold personalities--not shrinking violets! and yet, not mean to the others either.

don't know how i lived without them.

 

[Lisasfeathers]

I am getting the Babcock strain of White Leghorns

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

I would get white leghorns but they are to flighty for our chicken run! ):

 

[bargain]

Hello, I just had a chance to drop by and see what everyone was doing over here. I love the roo in the trees pic.....What I can say has already been said here, This egg continues to be laid even in the dead cold of winter when it's hot, or even in the midst of 40+ mPH hour winds - just 2 miles from tornado touch downs. In addition to our keeping our white leghorns, I'm toying with the idea of a project - but I think Hubby will say no and generally I agree with him.

I would love to develop a mix of a white leghorn with another color - say maybe EE or something like that...... I have a spare Cuckoo/EE cockerel that is gorgeous.....Or I could use a pure Ameraucana.. Now, I know I started this thread so please don't put me in a corner. I just truly would love to make our eating eggs for those we sell at market give us more reliable and frequent eggs. with multiple colors. Just I guess saying I wish all my others would lay even half as well as our leghorns.... Also would likely NEVER sell those eggs as hatching eggs, but simply use them for our "eating" eggs that we sell at markets...... As long as that white egg is laid on a farm or a backyard, to me it's a great egg. I don't understand the white egg bias, but it is most definitely there!

I have a five year old white leghorn still laying along..... Actually she's a free ranger and i love this pic of her
laying in the middle of the goat barn.... Finding her eggs is like an Easter Egg hunt ..... Because she is now getting so old, I have put her in a pen and she's not as happy, and still frequently escapes. Somewhere I have a pic of her laying eggs in a bunny box. Yes, I had cleaned out a rabbit pen and she just jumps in there and starts laying her eggs.... Love that silly girl.

Found it!!!!

To top it of the bunny box was side ways. Oh doggone it, now that I see this pic, I think I'll take her back to the bunny and goat area and just let her free range. !