Langshan Thread!!!

[call ducks]

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your driving me crazy

no pictures??? can't wait untill spring

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Only have one photo so far, they keep going into a corner where I can't see. I'll post photos when I move them to the brooder.

 

[call ducks]

yah chickies

 

[teddiliza]

Oh please tell me you turned off the egg turner and took it out! My safety alarms are screaming!!!! What if it gets a foot stuck?

. Or worse gets trapped or crushed or ....... Can you tell I'm the safety monitor of my house?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

No, I Refuse to remove the turner or turn it off during a hatch. My reasons? The last hatch that I did that with, all chicks died during hatch. The temperature dropped to 95 and would not stabilize. I also have a staggered hatch with eggs due in 2 weeks. I have never lost a chick in 15 years to getting stuck in a turner. I can see it happening with a metal turner but the plastic ones have large spacing and are not strong enough to severely damage the chick. I can understand the concern though! Thank you!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

One of the chicks may have hatched out wonky. Looks like 1 leg is shorter than the other? Looks like a little cockerel so far. It was only able to scoot with it's "small" leg dragging behind. I put it into a coffee mig so that it would have to use both legs to get out. Now it's taking very small steps. Who knows? Might have helped it. Thought it was interesting...

 

[thunder123]

How come does nobody breed White Langshans? Way back in the day before I stated breeding . I got my chickens from McMurry Hatchery and the surprise chicken(Always a rooster) Was a white Langshan . He turned out to stand about three feet tall at the head and mean as the dickens, But Beautiful. I researched all kinds of breeders .. No white. black yes. I sold his ass for $30.00 because I COULD NOT do anything in the yard without him coming after me. But admired how proud he was . It was so bad I could hear him (free Ranged) thundering across the yard to confront me. I still have scares on my legs. Long story short. I would build a pen in my sheep yard and arm myself with a big stick to raise this white breed. If you know someone who has them. It was just one bird who knows? He came from a hatchery he could have had some issues???

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I have white Langshans, this was my first hatch of them. The male is content to stay in the back of the pen and will come near me if I have food. The females are all over you though. The chicks from the breeding will be even more friendly as I intend to work on that with them. The parents were purchased from another person, so I do not know their history. I just knew what I wanted and got it!

The above picture is of a white Langshan chick, freshly hatched.

I've only ever had one bird that has attacked me. He wound up dead soon after and I went to purchase a new bird from Forrest. It was a black cockerel that did it, 1 time. I give 1 time chances, if they do it again, they're soup. That may play a role in how breeders are different from hatcheries. Hatcheries are all about the money, they are only with the birds a limited amount of time and quite honestly, might not care if one out of every 100 birds attacks them. I care immensely if one of my males is showing aggression and cull ruthlessly for it. I'm sure that no other breeder wants a man-fighter in their breeder pens. We spend lots of time with our birds, why should we not be able to enjoy it?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Only two chicks hatched, couldn't tell what happened with the other. It pipped into the air cell, but nothing else. I refuse to help a chick that hasn't at least made a pip into the shell, so it died in the egg. Ah well...I have 15 other eggs in the incubator as we speak. Hopefully this next week I will be able to candle and tell for certain which are going to continue.

Here are some photos of the white chicks now that they're dried off.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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There were white Langshans at the Morganton NC show last weekend. I do not care for white in this breed. I prefer that glorious glossy black but the blues appeal to a lot of people so I will probably add those to my pen.
The only white chickens I like are the round bantam Cochins. Cotton balls.