I got six Ideal 236 one year, with 6 brown leghorns and 6 production reds. The Ideals are yellow as chicks, and white as adults and look like white Leghorns, slender bodied birds with large red flop-over combs, but may have a black feather or tip once in a while, and lay large white-shelled eggs. They would jump on my back when I bent over in the pen to feed them. I had one we called Pet, because she would come up and talk to you with different little sentences. She was always jumping up by me on the barrel or the fence to have a talk. She would jump on our backs if we bent down, and walk up to the shoulder as we stood up, sit on the shoulder and talk to us and try to eat my fake pearl earring. There were a couple more that would jump on us as young pullets and just not be shy later, but she stayed that friendly. So funny for a chicken! Last thing we expected. Helps when you pen raise them early and go in amongst them to feed, water and clean. I would feed them from my hand a bit nearly every time, that helps. Incidentally, the reds were bold and bossy, and unafraid of us. The brown leghorn hens we had raised right along beside the others, were crazy as loons, would take off like a pheasant straight up if they got upset, and roosted in the top of the elm tree over the henhouse no matter how many times I caught them with a leg pole and put them back inside on the roost!
