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What's on at Kintaline Farm in 2016
Seasonal supplies of Jacob mutton, lamb & free range pork Fleece & Fibre : fleeces, batts and roving for craft work from native breeds Feed Store : smallholding, pet and wild bird feeds Poultry and Waterfowl housing, mail order throughout the UK Host of Local Origins Rural Network Community Producers Market Host of Ardchattan Parish local History Archive |
LORN Community Network Kintaline Farm on Facebook Ardchattan Observer LORN on Facebook LORN tweets |
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Practical Affordable WATERFOWL AND POULTRY HOUSING available throughout United Kingdom Argyll JACOB SHEEP, raised here on the farm for their lamb, mutton, fleece and rugs
Ardchattan parish : Benderloch, Barcaldine, North connel, Bonawe - Past and Present Parish newsletter
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~ Contact Us ~ ~ About Us UTILITY LEGHORN CHICKENS
The utility White Leghorns we have are good producers. The White Leghorns were the colour variety which received most attention in the stock improvement era (20's - 50's), and we have got birds from some of the old lines.
Few of these lines now exist in the UK - most strains have been either bred without selection for egg numbers and quality or have been bred for the show ring. This concentration on feather and form frequently is associated with a drop in egg numbers. Leghorns, especially the White ones, can be prodigious egg-layers and broodiness (the desire to hatch eggs) has almost completely been bred out of them. Leghorns are usually hatched out in incubators. A good utility White hen can lay in the vicinity of 250 eggs a year, however the light weight of this breed (males reach 6 pounds and females 4 1/2) makes it a poor choice if you are seeking a bird to provide meat for the table.
a young brown leghorn cockerel
The breed originated in Italy, but most of the colour varieties were developed in Great Britain, America and Denmark. It was formerly called the 'Italiana', but later renamed to 'Leghorn' after the city in Italy on the Ligurian Sea from where it was first shipped.
Although they are not as productive as they were in the past - I have started finding old laying trials records - in 1934 there were Black Leghorns laying around 230 - 250 eggs a year; 200 is a more accurate expectation these days. The Brown seemed more varied from the little info I have got so far from 200 - 250 and the White, in 1934, seemed to average around 275.
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Leghorns
are one of the best known breeds of chicken. They produce the majority of the world's crop of large white eggs and is possibly the most important commercial egg producing breed in the world (certainly in America).
