Lamona Chicken Fanciers Thread

[Braclin]

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Uhhh....we don't need any watchers....WE NEED PATICIPANTS!

Was just wondering how can you become a participant when there is only one flock known and That information must remain confidential?? How big a flock does this person have? Have they had the flock long? How did they acquire them? Just questions that I have. Thanks!!!!

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

We may have limited stock available in 2012. Will have to play it by ear. There may also be a third small flock back east. A friend was able to get a few eggs hatched from the original flock. Updates may be few and far between. Just subscibe to this thread to get the updates when they are available.

 

[ki4got]

I'm curious if you got your breeders you were planning on... pics of them?

I'm actually more interested in the dorkings, but thinking maybe a cross might revitalize the lines some. the discussion we have been having recently is the lack of red earlobes on the dorkings. they seem to be 'brushed' with white a lot more than they should... but then, if your birds are brown egg layers that wouldn't be a problem. it would be maintaining the red earlobe once they go to white eggs...

if you end up with any culls that are "too much dorking", keep me in mind. 8) personally i prefer brown eggs, but I'm in love with the dorkings in particular. the breed needs help too, as the majority of the silver greys come from hatchery stock almost entirely it seems. the size is a bit small, color somewhat flawed, and many have poor foot conformation, looking particularly duck-footed IMO. There are some populations out there that are improving but acquiring stock from these is definitely challenging at best.

I'm particularly wanting the colored, red, and silver grey dorkings, but also like the white, and a nice barred 'dorking-ish' bird would fit in nicely as I'm also wanting to 'reinvent' the crele... so far my hatch rates aren't great, so I'm setting every egg I get. my hatches are about 95% for mutt bantams, 40% for purebred bantams (oegb, cochin), and about 10% for the dorkings (all set in the same incubator/hatchers at the same times). hopefully by this time next year things will have improved as I've also got an order with Sandhill and hoping that just by crossing the 2 lines we will envigorate them a bit more.

good luck with the lamonas, I'll keep an eye here for updates.

 

[3littlebirds]

Good luck with your project! I really hope you can get the Lamonas revitalized- I actually started a thread a while back talking about the need for a white-feathered, dual-purpose white egg-layer, and there was some talk of Lamonas:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=312938&p=1

There's definite interest in bringing them back. I can't breed chickens where I'm living right now, but if you happen to have some pullets or hens you want to cull, I'd be happy to take them as layers.
On a side note, I've also visited Yellow House Farm and bought white Dorkings from them, and they breed some really great birds. They're enormous, hardy, very prolific egg layers, and taste delicious (we bought some meat from them, too).

 

[extraordinaryfowl]

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That is an awesome color pattern! I created some cockerels similar this spring with a leghorn cross - If you looked at the hackles real close, were they a solid cream/gold color, or was it almost like it was lemon-cuckoo barred real fine?

 

[3riverschick]

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here's a nice early article on the breed .
American poultry journal: Volume 52 - Page 765
books.google.com
1921 - Free Google eBook - Read
(Frank Platt is a lengenary poultryman and author.)

http://tinyurl.com/6nn57hn
"U. S. POULTRYMEN MAKE A NEW BREED"
Harry M. Lamon, Senior Poultryman, U. S. Department of Agriculture Makes
New Breed—A Dual-Purpose Type With Red Ear Lobes that Lays White Shelled
Eggs— Named "Lamona" by Secy. Wallace in Honor of Mr. Lamon. By F. L. PLatt
Pages 765 and 784. Page 974:mention of them in article "What the A.P.A. Should Do"..

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Breeds of chickens for meat and egg production - Page 12
books.google.com
United States. Agricultural Research Service. Animal Husbandry Research Division
- 1954 - 30 pages - Free Google eBook - Read

Lamona

"The Lamona has shorter legs than other American breeds, and it has four toes.
In shape it resembles the Dorking, and like the Dorking, produces white-shelled eggs.
It was admitted to the Standard in 1933."
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Other good stuff on the breed in Google Books.
Best Regards,
Karen in western PA
Sussex and Marans

 

[buffalogal]

Does anyone know Craig Russel? I read that he picked up white Dominiques at the 1998 Ohio National to use with his Lamonas, just wondered if he was still at it?

 

[Chris09]

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PM saladin,
Craig Russell is/was the President, Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities (SPPA)

Chris

 

[TrostPoultry]

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I know Craig and have spoke with him several times. He was helping me out with my project, however as far as I know he did not, and does not, have Lamona's. I could be wrong, but in all the times we spoke, he never mentioned or hinted that he had them. I have also been keeping in very close contact with the SPPA on the status of the Lamona's. A small group of SPPA members has been searching for surviving birds for many years and we continue to search.

 

[TrostPoultry]

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I would be interested in seeing or knowing where you read that. In all my research of the breed, I have not seen that.