Difference between Australorp and Langshan

[LizGio]

How can you tell the difference between an Australorp and Langshan?

 

[3KillerBs]

Yes because Lady I got eggs from had different roos including langshan roo and all different types of hens.

If she didn't have the birds separated out into breeding pens by type then he could be a mix.

But for the record,

Ludwig was a Black Langshan, not show quality, but quite decent for a hatchery bird with reasonable type and the correct amount of foot feathering:

See the characteristic Langhan U-shape? Also note that he was knee-high on my nearly 6-foot son -- over 2 feet tall.

Rameses is a Blue Australorp.

He carries his tail a bit higher than is ideal in the SOP, but his upper body doesn't make the same U-shape as Ludwig.

Additionally, notice that while Rameses is about half again as tall as his hens, Ludwig was twice as tall as those same hens.

Unfortunately, though they were quite good buddies, I never got a photo of the two of them together.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

This is the sellers description


roosters are Double Laced Barnevelders & Blue Langshans so you may get 100% pure bred Barnvelders or Langshans in your mix. I also have hens that are Jersey Giants, Cochins, Australorps, Leghorns, Penedesencas, Hamburgs, Orpingtons, Easter Eggers, Sapphire Olive Eggers & Prairie Bluebells.

He’s most likely a langshan mix, maybe a langshan x australorp. He can’t be a purebred australorp since the seller didn’t have any australorp roosters.

 

[kurby22]

@3KillerBs Ludwig was very handsome!! There were a couple Langshan roos at the poultry show in Lodi last weekend—they are something to see in person!! They were ginormous beautiful creatures you can’t tell size at all…but here’s one I just had to get a picture of he looks very similar to your boy but isn’t standing as well as he could!

This is my Langshan hen…Australorps should be rounder in body type. As KillerBs stated, when standing their head and tail should create a U shape

 

[LizGio]

@3KillerBs Ludwig was very handsome!! There were a couple Langshan roos at the poultry show in Lodi last weekend—they are something to see in person!! They were ginormous beautiful creatures you can’t tell size at all…but here’s one I just had to get a picture of he looks very similar to your boy but isn’t standing as well as he could!
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This is my Langshan hen…Australorps should be rounder in body type. As KillerBs stated, when standing their head and tail should create a U shape
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Thank you! I feel strongly he's a langshan x Australorp mix

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Langshans have feathered legs and a very lush, upright tail

 

[saysfaa]

Langshans also have a more upright stance and are less fluffy.

 

[LizGio]

 

[Amer]

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Australorp with poor type

 

[LizGio]

What other types of roosters did she have?

I don't remember. I'll have to go back and look