Are brown leghorns non-industrial?

[Kenya Mwangi]

On the livestockconservancy.org webpage it lists the "Leghorn-Non Industrial Chicken" with a status of "Recovering". Are the dark brown and light brown leghorns that are often talked about and pictured on this site those same chickens, the Non Industrial leghorn chicken?

If it is the same chickens the livestockconservancy.org lists them as heritage chickens. Being a heritage chicken, does it mean the light brown and dark brown leghorns are not "production" and can lay eggs more years than the typcial production leghorn?

Is the white leghorn a production chicken and not heritage chicken?

How many years do brown leghorns lay many eggs without a sudden decline?

Thank you for these 4 questions!

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Take all that stuff with a grain of salt. Each hatchery has a different type of bird. Plus those statuses are not an exact sciences.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Go off the individual breeders word, and general consensus.

 

[Kenya Mwangi]

Go off the individual breeders word, and general consensus.

Hello Thank you! My questions might not be right. Is general consensus agrees brown leghorn is non-industrial and white leghorn industrial or "production"?

Would you know how many years a brown leghorn produces eggs?

 

[Perris]

Hello Thank you! My questions might not be right. Is general consensus agrees brown leghorn is non-industrial and white leghorn industrial or "production"?

Would you know how many years a brown leghorn produces eggs?

there is a lot of info here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/brown-leghorns-pics-info-and-resources.625966/

 

[Kenya Mwangi]

Thank you! That is what i read. I did not find the answers to my questions.

 

[Kenya Mwangi]

there is a lot of info here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/brown-leghorns-pics-info-and-resources.625966/

The reason I am asking a question on a new thread is because I read the info at your link and found nothing that I asked.

 

[Perris]

ah, OK. Maybe @ChickenCanoe can help you? They have a lot of knowledge and experience with leghorns.

 

[Amer]

The white “Leghorns” that are used commercially are really hybrids with Leghorn ancestry. Which would make them not the same breed in the same sense that New Hampshires are not the same breed as Rhode Island Reds even though they were derived from them. I don’t know if the “white Leghorns” hatcheries are selling are heritage but I can tell you that heritage white Leghorns do exist.

 

[DAjuanBird]

Any breed of chicken will reach their peak egg laying their first year. Second year will still be fair and it will start to decline after that.