Leghorns? White? Non-White? Brown?

[Neil Grassbaugh]

commercial birds will have a brandname- Ideal, ISA, Hyline or such. They will not reciprocate your efforts to be freindly and close by.

If brown eggs are a consideration then any of the "sexlinked"layer types will do very well for you. They lay very well and the efficiency is nearly as good as a Leghorn. They will usually lay better in the cold but in NC that need not be a consideration. The egg size is large to bigger. They have a disposition that is quite enjoyable.

Brown Leghorns (from hatcherys) - There are two recognized colors Light Brown and Dark Brown. These are two of the most beautiful and complicated color patterns to breed in all poultrydom. Hence - the hatchery "brown Leghorn" or "Danish Brown Leghorn" which are really sort of a mongrel combination of the two colors. Hatchery brown Leghorn beeding stock has not been selected for color but for egg production. And that has not gone well. The eggs will be smaller for a longer period of time if they ever do get to be large at all. They will not lay as reliably and therefore the feed conversion ratio suffers.

Australorps - they do lay well but their breed superiority at the effort is a 100 year old fantasy that started out as advertising hype.

 

[TcherDawn]

I just picked up my 5 17week old started brown Hyline pullets. They are a cross between a RIR and a White Leghorn. They are bred for very dependable egg laying was what I was told. They are sweet and quiet. I sat in the cage and 4 out of 5 ate from my hand after only having them for a day. I love their white feathers in their brown coats. So very cute. I think that they will be fine temperment wise. A few even ate out of my rambunctious sons hands! I don't know if they will ever sit on my shoulders, but they are sweet, quiet, and do not seem too skittish either. We shall see.

 

[fahlain]

Gotta say-I have two leghorn hens, they're a year old, and they've laid an egg a day all winter long. Faithful little troopers! They're white leghorns, and haven't missed an egg a day in 7 months.


I think I got super lucky

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

My Favorit Leghorns right now are my Black ones, closely followed by my rosecomb Browns.
My 3 Black girls have been giving me a medium - large egg everyday since they started laying from the move into the new Pen(mid march).
The Rosecomb Browns skip a day every couple Days, but lay a nice medium sized egg too.

 

[Krys109uk]

There are two recognized colors Light Brown and Dark Brown. These are two of the most beautiful and complicated color patterns to breed in all poultrydom.

In what way are they complicated?​