Dark Brown Leghorn
A variety of the Leghorn
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Dark Brown Leghorn
The Dark Brown is the deeper, male-line counterpart to the Light Brown: cocks blaze with mahogany, fiery dark red and lustrous greenish-black, and hens carry a richer, darker pencilled brown than the Light Brown. Genetically it is brown-based (eb) with mahogany and red enhancers, which deepens the colour. The APA recognised Light and Dark Brown as separate show varieties by 1923. A hardy, productive white-egg layer.
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