leghorns in English

noun
1
fine plaited straw.
2
a chicken of a small hardy breed.
Hardy and active Leghorns , which originated near the city of Leghorn in Italy, are outstanding egg layers.
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1. Leghorns lay more eggs than Anconas, but Anconas lay more eggs during the winter than Leghorns

2. (Anconas and mottled leghorns that is)

3. Anconas are even sometimes incorrectly called Mottled Leghorns

4. This is especially unlikely considering that Leghorns are light-weight birds with white earlobes, yellow skin, and which lay white eggs.

5. ‘The Ancona originated near the city of Ancona, Italy, from early Leghorns and other breeds.’ ‘The Ancona's feathers are black, some being tipped white, giving the bird a pretty mottled appearance.’ ‘Anconas are a little heavier than Leghorns and lay good sized white eggs.’

6. It was created by cross-breeding Barred Plymouth Rock chicken, Leghorns, Cambars, and in the case of Cream Legbars, Araucanas.

7. 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.

8. They were bred from a mixture of early Leghorns and other breeds. Ancona chicken has got extreme hardiness and prolificacy form it’s mixed ancestry

9. Using two inbred lines of Brown Leghorns, B and I, a Backcrossing experiment was set up to test whether inherent rate of production was a simply inherited trait.Female progeny of each generation, selected for high rate, were mated to males of the B (lower rate) line