Lamona Chicken Fanciers Thread

[TrostPoultry]

Oh yeah, I estimate that there are less than 20 birds from my line alive yet. In fact, I might not be pushing it to say there are less than 10. However that Wyoming flock is an outlier as they got 8 dozen eggs. They claim none hatched, and due to the situation, I hope that is true! However, I find it hard to believe.

 

[welasharon]

Isn't it so sad that things like this bring out the absolutely ugliest in people? I am sorry. I hope you get a new start with the Lamona.
sharon

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Hey folks! This thread has "arrived"! I sent a message to a moderator and requested we be placed on the Notable Reference & Breed Thread Discussions and the Lamona is now listed. So anyone new to BYC or just searching for breed threads will be able to find us. Even if our discussion gets slowed and we go days without posting, folks will always be able to find us in the breeds sticky! A big thank you to the moderator who granted this request.

 

[phasianidae]

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Thank you. I hope all goes well in rebuilding your flock.

Ryan

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

An Arkansas Lamona!

Not sure on gender yet. It is now 4 weeks old and doing great!

Here it is with Nicole:

 

[gingernutranger]

I sure hope that some breeders will start re-creating the breed on their own. We need more than one bloodline and if people keep selling birds from one small flock, birds will become inbred, diseased, etc. I can see this coming with some of the birds brought from Greenfire Farms as well. If they are only bringing in a few birds and selling them like crazy, its a disaster waiting to happen. I do appreciate their effort of trying to save these rare breeds though.

Keep up the good work Jim on trying to find some more to make your own line, but creating your own from scratch would be awesome! I hope to do so once we move next year and buy our new property.

Anyone know of sources for the bantam dorkings?

 

[danhonour]

The general idea is to build up a flock with as much of the original blood that can be found,then using the foundation flock,add some new lines for needed traits and vigor from outcrossing.Letting the original blood to predominante in percentage.Perhaps some of the blood of the bantam Lamona can be used in the Large fowl program.

Perhaps an article on breeding the bantam Lamonas,would be of great help and interest.Since were have the creator here of the bantam to tell us the things encountered during the years working with these.Things that have helped and things to avoid. It can only help with the large.Please consider an article for posting here!I have seen a few pictures of the bantams on feathersite,any additional pictures? Dan

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Dan is correct. Instead of recreating the Lamonas, we need to preserve the original bloodline. We are supposed to get some White Dorking hatching eggs "if" they are available. Using White dorking, White Leghorn and White Plymouth Rock from good lines, we can outcross to one, take the pullets back to a "pure" Lamona male, outcross to the next breed, then back to the Lamona. We will keep a Lamona line and outcross lines. But we must keep at least a percentage of the original Lamona bloodline in the breed.

 

[danhonour]

Yes Jim,you have got it.The other stuff can be used sparingly if needed to help out the originals. I think that some good White Dorkings will be helpful at some point as they resemble Lamonas to a good degree.i THINK YELLOWHOUSE FARM HAS BEEN WORKING ON wHITE dORKINGS.A white leghorn x white dorking cross might be a good cross to get going on,that way the fifth toe can be bred out before the mix is added to the originals.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Dan, can you check and see if yellowhouse can spare some eggs or maybe a pullet this fall. Or better yet, if he would consider sending a couple dozen eggs from his pullets and one of your White Leghorn males..... it would only take a few weeks together to get the amount of eggs we need. Just a thought!