Pondering getting two new hens, one being perhaps a brown partridge leghorn (from here: http://www.jessieshens.co.uk/Our-Hen-Range.html)
Had two leghorns previously, both white. Lizzie laid five or so eggs early on, mostly soft shelled, and went into the house every day thereafter to lay a phantom egg. After a nearly a year she became rather a bully, having all the energy of a young, pushy hen who isn't laying, so she had to go.
Then we had Charlie, a prodigious layer from the day we got her (looked close to point of lay, didn't know she was THAT close) to the day she randomly died hours after laying (no symptoms before, no sign of why afterwards) a year and a half later. She was nice enough, a bit stand-offish. But a good member of the flock.
So I'm not clear I want another white leghorn - are the other leghorns any less flighty? Are they as over-burdened with personality as the whites?
Had two leghorns previously, both white. Lizzie laid five or so eggs early on, mostly soft shelled, and went into the house every day thereafter to lay a phantom egg. After a nearly a year she became rather a bully, having all the energy of a young, pushy hen who isn't laying, so she had to go.
Then we had Charlie, a prodigious layer from the day we got her (looked close to point of lay, didn't know she was THAT close) to the day she randomly died hours after laying (no symptoms before, no sign of why afterwards) a year and a half later. She was nice enough, a bit stand-offish. But a good member of the flock.
So I'm not clear I want another white leghorn - are the other leghorns any less flighty? Are they as over-burdened with personality as the whites?