Black Leghorn
A variety of the Leghorn
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Black Leghorn
Solid black with a beetle-green sheen in good light, the Black Leghorn is one of the long-recognised self-coloured forms in both the British and American standards. The contrast of glossy black plumage against the bright red single comb, face and wattles and the breed's signature pure-white earlobes is striking. Underneath the colour it is a true Leghorn: alert, active and a reliable layer of white eggs.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 280
- Purpose
- Laying
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- Italy
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus