Coffee with the Chicken Ladies
Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 19 segments
In this week's episode we spotlight the Production White Leghorn and take a look at how they became an egg industry standard laying hen. The wonderful Erica Camp, founder of Second-Hen'd Rescue, joins…
Erica CampGuestThere once was a little Italian chicken.
So we're doing the Breed Spotlight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
[laughs] This week's breed-
I liked that one, except that you always start off with, "There once was a little chicken," and I'm like, no.
Apparently there are many times where there are little chickens-
[laughs] But there was-
... because you do this over and over.
[laughs]
But I like the, I like the rest of it a lot.
So this week's Breed Spotlight is...
The production Leghorn.
The little Leghorn.
Little old Leghorn.
Leghorns get a bad rap, but they're one of my favorite chickens.
That's for sure.
And this is a bit of a different spotlight from what we usually do, and it's because of our main topic.
We're gonna be talking about spent industrial laying hens, many of which are Leghorns.
And while the Leghorn is a heritage breed, in commercial settings they generally come from strains where they have been rigorously selected for maximum egg production.
Poor little Leghorns.
Yeah.
In our previous spotlights on Leghorns, and those episodes are 250, 184, 172, 85, and four.
There once was a little Italian chicken.
So we're doing the Breed Spotlight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
[laughs] This week's breed-
I liked that one, except that you always start off with, "There once was a little chicken," and I'm like, no.
Apparently there are many times where there are little chickens-
[laughs] But there was-
... because you do this over and over.
[laughs]
But I like the, I like the rest of it a lot.
So this week's Breed Spotlight is...
The production Leghorn.
The little Leghorn.
Little old Leghorn.
Leghorns get a bad rap, but they're one of my favorite chickens.
That's for sure.
And this is a bit of a different spotlight from what we usually do, and it's because of our main topic.
We're gonna be talking about spent industrial laying hens, many of which are Leghorns.
And while the Leghorn is a heritage breed, in commercial settings they generally come from strains where they have been rigorously selected for maximum egg production.
Poor little Leghorns.
Yeah.
In our previous spotlights on Leghorns, and those episodes are 250, 184, 172, 85, and four.
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