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The Leghorn, [a] Italian: Livorno or Livornese, is a breed of chicken originating in Tuscany, in central Italy.Birds were first exported to North America in 1828 from the Tuscan port city of Livorno, [6] on the western coast of Italy.
Brown Red Sometimes called Gold Birchen. Coloured Coronation Cream Light Brown Dark brown Exchequer only in the Leghorn [4]: 187 Ginger Red Golden Neck Golden-necked mille fleur Gray Lemon Blue Light Brown Pyle Alternatively spelt Pile. Red Pyle Quail Salmon Silver Blue Silver Gray Splash Tolbunt Seen only in Polish chickens White Laced Red
The same mutation was later found in another flock of Barred Rocks and in White Leghorn. Affected birds had as good vision as normal ones. In 1983 Brumbaugh, Bargar and Oetting [19] reported a third recessive allele at the C pigment locus, to which they assigned the symbol c a. This allele in homozygous individuals produces a kind of partial ...
The Iowa Blue's exact origin is unknown, but is the subject of a folk legend that is said to have involved the mating of a White Leghorn hen and a pheasant. [1]: 90 This is especially unlikely considering that Leghorns are light-weight birds with white earlobes, yellow skin, and which lay white eggs.
[4]: 432 His aim was to produce a dual-purpose chicken that would be suitable for meat production and would also lay large white eggs. By cross-breeding of Barred Plymouth Rock and White Leghorn birds, an autosexing breed with barred gray adult plumage was produced. As in other autosexing breeds, the sex of chicks can be distinguished at about ...
Harry S. Lamon was the senior poultry expert of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.From 1912, working at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland, he crossed white Plymouth Rocks, silver-gray Dorkings and white Leghorns to produce a breed with good egg-laying capabilities which would – unlike most layer breeds ...
The development of this breed is not factually known but it is thought that Birchen English Game and possibly Duckwing Leghorns were used in the makeup. The game inclusion would account for the excellent meating ability and the Leghorn for the laying ability. They have a single comb and a red face with black eyes while the legs are slate or black.
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets [1] or for cockfighting.