Lamona Chicken Fanciers Thread

[welasharon]

Ah! I kinda liked the speckled brown!
sharon

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

First we will hatch lots of chicks and get our numbers up. Then we will cull for type. The last will be the egg color until we have at least a large flock of lamoans. Then we will start hatching only light colored or white eggs. Hopefully, we will have white or cream colored eggs within two years.

 

[danhonour]

Jim,I think you have the right plan.Get a flock started,then get some out to a few trusted breeders,to get them going.Then start selecting breding pens based on faults or lack of faults.Keep the originals going,then later special outcrosses.Even then I would let the original blood predominate,or keep a male line of decent unbroken.It is a good way to hold together what you have and building upon that.Keeping my fingers crossed that you can get them going. Dan Honour

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Well, with folks like you advising me, all will go well. But first, can not count my chicks before they hatch.

 

[cedar post]

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Hi Ryan,
Just seen this thread on Lamonas> I will be seing Jeremy in the next few weeks at the fair. I know he was having trouble with fertility and has put alot of time into them over the years. Don't know if he has them anymore. I do know that he has shipped them around the U.S. California and on the east coast. I'll see if he has any leads on any.

 

[phasianidae]

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Hi Ryan,
Just seen this thread on Lamonas> I will be seing Jeremy in the next few weeks at the fair. I know he was having trouble with fertility and has put alot of time into them over the years. Don't know if he has them anymore. I do know that he has shipped them around the U.S. California and on the east coast. I'll see if he has any leads on any.

Thank you.

 

[TrostPoultry]

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Hi Ryan,
Just seen this thread on Lamonas> I will be seing Jeremy in the next few weeks at the fair. I know he was having trouble with fertility and has put alot of time into them over the years. Don't know if he has them anymore. I do know that he has shipped them around the U.S. California and on the east coast. I'll see if he has any leads on any.

Hello all....
Sounds as if you have been speaking of my flock of Lamona bantams. The person, I think Jim, that mentioned I lost them in a fire is correct. I lost all my breeds, including the Lamonas, just before my breeding season in the fall of 2009. The Peach Laced were in that flock, but they were very difficult to breed as they never wanted to breed true to color. I am going to look for some photos of them and if I can get them scanned I will share them.

I also am planning to move so a place in the country. At that time I am hoping to start gathering up some of the Lamona's that I shipped to other parts of the country before the fire. If I am able to do that I have every intention of rebuilding my flock. If time and space permits, I may also consider working on a Large Fowl Lamona recreation project. I absolutely love this breed and will promote it as far as I possibly can.

Someone mentioned that they don't understand why the breed didn't catch on. It is pretty simple to explain if you look at when they were created. During that time birds were being raised on family farms and that is where egg production was taking place. Mr. Lamon wanted to create a breed that could produce lots of white eggs but also be dual purpose to some extent, and the Lamona fit the bill. The problem was that there was also a movement to industrialize egg production and the breeding started to produce a bird that could produce lots of eggs in confinement. Along came the production Leghorn, or whatever name it goes by now. As we all see the result of today, the industrial egg producers became the norm just as the Lamona was being introduced to large groups of the public. Sadly they didn't stand a chance, and today we see that result. They basically extinct, but their blood probably is floating around in some farm flocks yet. With work a person may be able to get the breed back using that blood.

 

[phasianidae]

Hi Jeremy,

Great to hear from you. Do you still have the Peach Laced Lamona bantams? How many Lamona bantams do you estimate exist?

Thank you,

Ryan Zierke

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Jeremy, if you find any Lamona Bantams, please have them send me a dozen or so eggs!

 

[TrostPoultry]

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All my birds were lost in the fire, I have nothing left for Lamona's. All I know is that my line is still being bred on the east coast by 1 breeder. There also may be a flock in Wyoming, however they will not speak to me because they did not pay for their eggs or birds. In my haste to spread out the genetics, I shipped them without getting the payment. I no longer do that under any situation.

The rest of the places I sent eggs or birds, that I have contact information for, no longer have them. They either sold them or lost them. There was also a breeder in WI that got a portion of my flock before the fire. Unfortunately she did not follow the agreement we had (that I had first buying options) and she split the flock up and sold them in pairs and trios. Sadly she bought the flock and sold them within a month of the fire, so she obviously had no intention to preserve them.

I am still looking for my photos. I am in the process of packing my house so lots of things are in boxes, including my photos.