leghorn|leghorns in English

noun

Mediterranean breed of chicken that lays many eggs; smooth braided straw made from a variety of Italian wheat; hat made from leghorn straw

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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. In some breeds such as the White Leghorn, Broodiness is extremely

5. Livorno, in the Barbarian dialect of the Genovesi, Ligorno; and hence our word Leghorn

6. 8 synonyms for Boater: leghorn, Panama hat, straw hat, Panama, sailor, skimmer, boatman, waterman

7. Lamonas weigh more than the light Leghorn, but less than the large Plymouth Rock and Dorking.

8. At that time the Black Australorp was crossed with the White Leghorn and the Austra White was created.

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

10. ‘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.’

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12. The Ancona originates from the Italian province of Ancona and was bred from a mixture of breeds including the Leghorn

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

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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.

17. The state of being broody 1998 March 6, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader‎[1]: In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the Broodiness bred out of them

18. In the twentieth century it was at first not threatened by imported commercial hybrid layer chickens and the spread of highly intensive chicken farming methods, as breeds such as the Leghorn laid white eggs, while Basque consumers preferred brown.

19. 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

20. The collapse of the traditional mezzadria system in the 1960s caused a rapid decline in breed numbers, aggravated both by the growth of intensive methods of poultry-farming and by competition from the White Leghorn breed, of which chicks incubated in northern Italy were readily available.