| LC control no. | sh 85075797 |
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| LC classification | SF489.L5 |
| Topical heading | Leghorn chicken |
| Variant(s) | Leghorns (Poultry) |
| See also | Chicken breeds |
| Found in | Web. 3 (leghorn: a Mediterranean breed of rather small heavy nonbroody domestic fowls) Breeds of chicken for meat and egg production, 1954: p. 24 (Leghorn of Mediterranean class) Green-Armytage, Stephen. Extraordinary chickens, 2000: p. 44 (The Leghorn gets its name from Livorno ... First shipped to the United States in 1874, the Leghorn is a very reliable layer of eggs and is an important element in the makeup of commercial egg-producing hybrids.) |
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