Thanks again, everyone!
All Pullets can lay good their first year or longer till after first molt...Winter hardy means cold hardy...
Lol, true! I don't know what I was thinking when I put 'Winter Hardy'. I believe I did mean cold hardy?
My brahmas, leghorns, and Andalusian came from My Pet Chicken. Very pleased with them. You could get leghorns but you would need to watch their combs for frostbite.
Yep; I've heard that about the Leghorns. I only want
one of the White ones, though. Thanks!
How so? Could you elaborate a bit? Just curious
That's what I had been thinking, haha.
By the way, it's a little off-topic here, but...your horse is gorgeous!
Leghorns are flighty..Require 20% protein and do not handle confinement too well..Combs freeze and sometimes do not like Birds of another Colour.
I was going to say: I've read lots of different things; some saying they do handle confinement, and some saying they don't. Some saying they're sweet and friendly, and some saying they're not, that they're really skittish. Does that just depend, perhaps, how you raise it as a chick? Like if you attempt to befriend it and play with/handle it daily? Because I'm hoping if I get a White Leghorn, that it will be friendly. I want friendly birds.
The Isabelle Leghorns are pretty, in my opinion. And the Exchequers, especially (I really like blue chickens and spotted ones). But anyways, then I saw what lazy gardener pointed out, saying that you're from Canada, so some stuff is different for us, or something like that. So never mind me saying some things out of curiosity, since you probably 'experience' things a bit differently, too, for terrible lack of
way better wording (sorry
).
Oh, and,
@sylviethecochin, referring to your post about the Cochins, I've read that some people get some that are really good layers/can lay at least up to four a week, I'm thinking? Is that only because they might have gotten them from a hatchery, where they're bred to be 'egg-laying machines'?
