Lamona Chicken Fanciers Thread

[NYREDS]

Since the "recipe" is readily available recreating lamonas is a simple enough matter. However, if the breed was all that appealing they wouldn't have disappeared in the first place, there'd be huge flocks of them everywhere.

 

[Poultry Friend]

About 50 or 60 chicks were hatched last summer. In late fall I went and culled them to about 20 pullets and 5 cockerels. About 1/3 of the pullets showed light pyle markings. Egg color was improved to dark tint to very light brown. At the owner's passing everything was dispersed.

So you have them? Did you get get them from the recreated flock in IL, or from one of the last remaining orginal flocks?

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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I believe his came from the hidden old flock back east.

 

[surnikis]

the Illinois Breeder is Stephen Gerdes in toluca , IL. He has been working on the project for 8 years , I believe this next year 2013 , he will begin to exhibit some of the birds . I have seen them and they are very nice and true to type

 

[TomNY]

I believe his came from the hidden old flock back east.

So you have them? Did you get get them from the recreated flock in IL, or from one of the last remaining orginal flocks?

The original flock went to slaughter within days of the owner's death. At that time there were fewer birds than I remembered so he may have let someone have some but I doubt it. The last hatch was done to prove to himself the old flock was fertile. 83% of the eggs were fertile about 90% of the fertile eggs hatched. An interesting note is the fact he never called them Lamonas in the last ten years. They were his "Whites". Tom

 

[surnikis]

I do have a standard cockeral, but ended up with it while moving chicks he hatched for me and got mixed up with some other chicks of mine, I have not decided wether or not I am going to raise them or not , , as we work together with poultry, and help each other out Steve got his originals from Marion Nash in the 80's then due to a natural disaster lost them , these have been recreated through the recipe of breeding and he has worked on them for many years they are to the standard, and excellent birds...true to form . much better than anything I have seen since the last had died that Marion had. Yes I saw Marions birds too as I exhibited at the IL State Fair while marion was alive and remember them well , he was very passionate about them

 

[OSUman]

Is there still any interest in Lamonas?

 

[draye]

I would be interested if any LF could be found.

 

[OSUman]

There might be some LF getting released soon, I will post here if they do.

 

[OSUman]

These are Lamonas that were recreated by Steve Gerdes, who recently passed away, he did an amazing job with them, and I think the next part of this would have been to perfect the uniformity in the breed.