Leghorn today is one of the most popular around the globe.Its name it owes to the Italian city of Livorno, where she was first brought in the XIX century.In English the word "Livorno" sounds like "Leghorn", which was later used to refer to the breed.
Leghorn chickens are famous for their egg production.Although I must say that at the moment of any given breed outstanding qualities are the same.Rather, their figures for the number of laid eggs significantly lagged behind the performance of other types of chickens.An excellent way out Americans found that Leghorn became cross with other species, including Rumble.Get the "mestizo" went to Europe, where the breeding work has continued in different directions, in order to bring the most successful species.
in our country - then still the Soviet Union - the birds were introduced at the beginning of the last century, namely in 1925.White Leghorn - breed hens, which became a sort of "ancestor of" Russian white hens.Currently, how this kind and its derivatives are used for large scale preparations eggs.This is understandable, because the parameters of egg production have really high.On average, one chicken can carry up to three hundred pieces a year, and a subspecies of rock ridge with sheet - three hundred and fifty.Females lay eggs begin already at the twentieth week of life, and the first year in the number of eggs laid, as a rule, is the most productive.The feed chickens usually add all sorts of stimulants to enhance performance in egg production, so at the end of the year they often occur exhaustion.Individuals who can no longer be carried on the level that is required of them, fall into the "marriage" (including those who are beginning to hatch chicks).
Leghorn - breed chickens, which can be easily identified by certain features.These birds are not the most outstanding body size (weight hens barely more than two kilograms, the weight of males reaches a maximum of three), a small head and a long thin neck.Beak small, yellow, with a bent tip.The legs also did not differ in length.Do chicks color extremities, usually yellow, which turns white as the growth and maturation of chicken.The wings and tail are of medium size.The color of the plumage can be, in principle, different, but in our country is more common white leghorn.The weight of one egg can be up to sixty grams, shell color - white.
Leghorn - breed chickens, which in our time is bred everywhere.Russia in this respect, too, is no exception.On the territory of our country was opened 20 breeding plants, whose tasks include the development and improvement of the breed, as well as the elimination of other, more productive it proizvodnyh.Leggorn - breed chickens, the birds are resistant to temperature extremes.However, some problems have also available.In particular, when the content of chickens closely in small cells is likely the rapid spread of various kinds of diseases.In addition, Leghorn do not like the noise - from the fear and anxiety they could be in trouble with the bearing of eggs.
