Pile Leghorn
A variety of the Leghorn
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the Pile Leghorn
The Pile (Pyle) Leghorn is essentially a duckwing in which black is replaced by white, leaving a clean red-on-white bird: cocks carry rich red hackle, back and saddle over a white body, hens are white with a salmon breast. Pyles were bred in Britain in the 1880s. The bright red-and-white plumage makes it one of the more eye-catching recognised colours of this active 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