Langshan Thread!!!

I can do the processing, cut up portions and such, but for some reason...I CAN'T get past using legs, bones and feet to make stock. No idea why, but that is a stopping point for me. Not happening under this roof! lol!

I have to agree on waiting until 30 plus weeks. The breast is just not as developed as later on. I still can't decide between two males that I have. One is lighter in color, just starting to get his tail in. The other male is the more dominant male and has a much nicer color for a blue, more standoffish, not mean, but from a few weeks of age, I was concerned he had an awful wry tail.

Now that his tail is coming in, I can't tell if it's wry tail or not? The bones don't tilt that way in his back or tail..I don't know. I simply can't choose. Both have excellent length of leg, both have excellent eye color and both have excellent width of head. I'll just have to look for the width of feather, and see if there's something I can go from there.


On the bright side, I've decided on what I want for Christmas! LOL! I have found several reprint of books from A.C. Croad about the Langshan and another breeder. Someone tell my husband!
 
First of all, I let the young Langshan cocks live until 13-14 months. I dont think their breasts fill out properly until then. As for feeding, I chuck all sorts in to them, but I do make sure I pick some grass every day if they are penned. I give them the milk I have, but I am sure yoghurt is just as fine. The point I think is the animal-proteins you find in milk, chickens are natural omnivores. I find that no other breed has as fine and tender meat as the Langshan, but if you find them a bit tough, there is nothing stopping you cooking longer on a lower heat, and then increase the temp. the last half hour, so the skin gets extra crisp. After eating the birds, I chuck all bones in a pan, boil it for a couple of hours. Get lovely stock then. Portion it and freeze it, use it for all sorts, sauces, soups....
Thank you for the info! We made the most lovely stock from the carcasses. I have several containers in my freezer just waiting to be used. I picked all the meat off of the bones and mistakenly put it in our Thanksgiving turkey broth. (I thought that it was the left over turkey.) I added carrots, celery, onion, spices, and barley to make the best turken/chickey soup. The dark meat is so delicious and tender after cooking in the soup. We are having it again for supper tonight.
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I can do the processing, cut up portions and such, but for some reason...I CAN'T get past using legs, bones and feet to make stock. No idea why, but that is a stopping point for me. Not happening under this roof! lol!

I have to agree on waiting until 30 plus weeks. The breast is just not as developed as later on. I still can't decide between two males that I have. One is lighter in color, just starting to get his tail in. The other male is the more dominant male and has a much nicer color for a blue, more standoffish, not mean, but from a few weeks of age, I was concerned he had an awful wry tail.

Now that his tail is coming in, I can't tell if it's wry tail or not? The bones don't tilt that way in his back or tail..I don't know. I simply can't choose. Both have excellent length of leg, both have excellent eye color and both have excellent width of head. I'll just have to look for the width of feather, and see if there's something I can go from there.


On the bright side, I've decided on what I want for Christmas! LOL! I have found several reprint of books from A.C. Croad about the Langshan and another breeder. Someone tell my husband!
I can't use the feet but the stock from the carcass is so good! When we processed the chickens, the men peeled the legs because our friends have people who want them. They are not for me but I'm glad that almost every part was used.

You could always keep both roos!
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I only have a small amount of space and the younger male is starting to get a little bit man-handled by the more dominant male. I don't know though...both are just nice.

I suppose I will have to take pictures eventually. And that's not including the 20 plus chicks I have to choose from in the coming months!
 
Topic Originally Found on: Langshan Thread!!! Welcome to 2012! - Pages 70 to 71

OK, My Langshans are 22 Weeks AKA 5 Months & 1 Week Old.
So My Gender List for My Langshans Is As Fallows:

01:Penguin:Pullet
02:Shy Fly: Rooster (Just Looks & Acts Like a Pullet;But walks & carries its self like a Roo)
03:Pigeon Toe: Pullet
04:Nessie Pullet

05:Jewel: Rooster (Saw & Herd Him Crow)
6:Wight Band:
Rooster (Saw in cockerel fights & enjoying the Pleasures of the hens)
07:Sapphire: Pullet
08:Fluff Puff:
Rooster (Is A Bully & Is usually found in cockerel fights)
09:Bernice, Bernice: Pullet
10:Pigeon: Pullet
Adds Up To 6 & 4
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I only have a small amount of space and the younger male is starting to get a little bit man-handled by the more dominant male. I don't know though...both are just nice.

I suppose I will have to take pictures eventually. And that's not including the 20 plus chicks I have to choose from in the coming months!
Sorting. I think that is so hard with the Langshans. One that I had given up on two years ago, turned out the nicest roo I have ever had. AND, he bred very well. He vas so ugly as young, so I named him "Bugly". Ugly Bugly. I also have a pen now full of boys, some born in January and some in May. They just keep developing and altering (and surprising me). Not the easiest breed to sort. And those who eventuelly gets "sorted" end up as the most expensive Sunday dinner. But, it is worth it.
 
I wish that I had the space and money to keep all of my cockerels until they are fully mature. It was hard for me to process two of my black boys before they were completely grown. I just keep reminding myself that they both had pecked me several times including on the day that we processed them. Of all the birds that I handled that day, they were the only 2 to peck me. Not a single of the others even tried and 3/4 of them were boys. I still have the bruise on my arm from one of them. I'm sure that with a few more pounds on them, they would have been too much roo for me. I hope that the 2 boys that I kept will develop into roos that are good enough to use for breeding.
 
I am sure they will do for breeding. I have been quite lucky with finding fresh blood for breeding, but I find breeding LF Langshans so much easier than most breeds. The genes are there.
 
That's good! They are both out at the farm with the other Langshan boys. I'm going out there sometime in the next week or so to look at them and decide which ones to keep. I have 3 more boys here at the house but the white boy is the only one that is developing into something good and I'm not planning on breeding white Langshans. They free range in the pasture at the farm and there are lots of hawks. My friend is concerned that white birds will be easy prey.
 

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