Langshan Thread!!!

[mrheinz77]

If Jim still wants some, he's got first dibs on birds. After that, I may be able to make another few people happy along the way home!

It just depends on when we leave and how many birds I have left. I'm afraid all I have in the standard category are blues at the moment.

 

: You don't take I-80 by chance?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I believe so...

We go through Ohio, through Indiana, through Missouri, and to Oklahoma.

 

[rsutr101]

I am still looking for bantam whites and yes plz let me know

 

[thorleif]

When are you moving?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Don't rightly know just yet. We should be getting the paperwork on the business closing. When we find out that, we can find out when we get to head back home.

rsutr, if you can make a trip along I-80 for that route, we should be able to meet up. Same goes for you Jim! We can't really make a huge side-track because of how the weather will be and the fact we will have a caravan of cars with us. But, if you can meet us along the way, I would be happy to shed some birds!

As of now, I have several young blue cockerels that need to go and some possible blue pullets as well.

thorleif! I got the practical poultry issue in! Your friend that joined us a fair bit ago, were those some of her birds that were photographed? I swear I have seen some of those photos before!

 

[thorleif]

I dont know? I'll ask her, she is coming here in a week to collect 3 big white hens and a couple of boyos. Her and her boyfriend will be staying over for one night, before they go back to Yorkshire. I really look forward to that. I am glad the magazine landed so quick, I am impressed. Terry Beebe that writes a bit in Practical Poultry has a poultry-magazine in the US, I hear? The best reading in there is Fred Hams articles. He is into utility-birds. He is over 80.
Happy Christmas, Mikaela!

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Just wanting to know, does any one else have Australian Langshans or am the only one???

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Cluckcluckluke, I'm sorry. Where did you say you were from again? In the US, there are no Australian or German Langshans.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Cluckcluckluke, I'm sorry. Where did you say you were from again? In the US, there are no Australian or German Langshans.

I live in Australia and have a licensed breeder of Australian Langshans living down the road from me and i get my Langshans of him.

 

[thorleif]

Australian Langshans I think you will only find in Australia. They came about because some breeders of (Croad) Langshans felt they had to bring in some fresh blood to save the Croad Langshans from total extinction, so they crossed in some Australorps, and it worked quite well. They managed to get a nice bird with good colors, reasonable egg and meat quality, but, somehow, they lost that special Langshan-type. This is something I dont quite understand, as Australorps was was used in the "mix" when they re-created the extinct bantam-Croad in the 1970's, and they (the really good ones) look just like small Langshans. An Australian Breeder, Tony McKenna, seems to have done a lot of work with the Australian Langshan, and he has a few good films on Youtube. Just go to Youtube, and type in "Croad Langshan" in the searchbox. He is also a member of the Croad Langshan Club.