Lamona Chicken Fanciers Thread

[eatmorechicken]

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Oh, I understand. Have you seen the parent stock?

No, but I trust my source. Will take lots of photos of the eggs, the chicks and as they grow.

Do you have the eggs now? What is the progress?

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

The carton arrived partly smashed. Lost several eggs enroute. We now have 8 fertile eggs in the incubator. However, have been promised several more dozen. A third person has contacted me and verified these are indeed Lamonas. The egg color is brown, but the ALBC insist (along with several others) that we must get the numbers up first, then work on egg color. I have also located an isolated flcok of pure Dan Young White Leghorns, the same strain that Lamon used. So if we need to outcross to improve egg color, we will be able to use the genetic strain.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Just candled the eggs. Down to 4 eggs.

Please pray!!!!!!!

 

[welasharon]

Oh I hope these make it to hatch. What day are you on?

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Day 30 something.......

We set them 6/9

uh....I mean day 14. One week to go!

 

[welasharon]

Ha ha! It does feel like that doesn't it, and mine were under a broody so I didn't have to do anything. Well I wish you the best. It is so good to see the old breeds preserved.
sharon

 

[eatmorechicken]

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Bummer! i hope you got many more eggs on the way. I sure wish that I could stumble across something worthwhile.

 

[danhonour]

On a positive note,I was reading the 1948 NGM with the Article on Araucanas.It seems as if Mr. Bower had after cosiderable expense importing and bad luck,an old hen setting on a couple of eggs and the male dropped dead.It just so happened a couple of the eggs hatched and one was a male.The rest is history and they are now very common in the US. P.S. Mr. Bowers egg shell color at first was white,but he did notice some eggs had a blue green color on the inside,also tailess and eartuffs were not common at first.The old colorplate picture in the 1927 NGM was his guide and inspiration.So maybe with persisting the Lamona can be saved.

 

[phasianidae]

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So all the Araucanas in the US are derived from that hen? Sorry for going off topic.

 

[danhonour]

I read that the Pratt Farm imported some Araucanas in the 1915-1924 era.but they died out.I think Bower tried for years to import more and did late 1930's or early 1940,s.They came by boat at the wrong time of year,the crate arrived buried in ice,the birds were in bad shape and went into a molt that they had just came out of.It is an amazing true story,and appearently they all derive from that one hen or that small group.I am going from memory here so may be off in a few details.I should dig out the issue again. I was looking up something in a file of mine and found Harry M.Lamon had died on Aug.6,1942 at age 70.The APA newsletter had a nice picture of him judging a big class of Lamonas,in a recent newsletter,not sure of the date.