Gold Duckwing Leghorn
A variety of the Leghorn
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Gold Duckwing Leghorn
The Gold (Golden) Duckwing Leghorn shows the duckwing pattern on a gold ground: cocks carry golden-yellow hackle and saddle, a black breast, and the characteristic blue-black wing bar with a chestnut wing triangle; hens are silver-grey with a salmon breast. Gold and silver duckwing Leghorns were created in Britain in the late 1880s from crosses with Phoenix or Yokohama fowl. An active 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