When we were picking chicks at the pet store in May, we were told that Hawk is a "red sex link", which meant her color was linked to her sex chromosome and was bred to be a good egg layer. However, as she developed, she did not look like any pictures of the red sex links (also called Red Stars), but we could never quite figure out her breed. Now that we know she lays white eggs, instead of brown, we discovered she's a Mediterranean breed known as a Leghorn. White Leghorns are among the best egg layers and are therefore the most common for industrial chicken farming, producing cartons and cartons of white eggs sold in grocery stores. However, we have a Brown Leghorn, and while still a fabulous egg producer, she is not as productive as the white variety. We are still impressed by her egg size-- JUMBO!
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