I expected a Langshan to be slow maturing, his breed-sister isn't showing signs of being POL yet.
I know that there's no predicting what will happen when the hormones hit, but I'm hoping that his behavior with the hens so far and the integrating chicks is a promising sign.
I suspect that my 23-week-old Black Langshan cockerel is undergoing his final juvenile molt since I've found a few of his gorgeous tail feathers lying around the coop. (He was slow-feathering as a chick).
His crow is improving and today I we saw him herding a hen back to the group after she'd...