White Leghorn
A variety of the Leghorn
Chicken · White eggs · Laying
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About the White Leghorn
Pure, lustrous white throughout, the White Leghorn is the original and by far the best-known variety — the bird whose laying ability was used to build most modern commercial white-egg hybrids. Its single-combed white hen is the archetypal 'classic chicken' and remains the heaviest layer of the family, typically around 280 white eggs a year. White earlobes, yellow legs and beak complete the picture.
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