Langshan Thread!!!

[PetRock]

I'm just throwing this out there, I believe PetRock is near your area?

Why can't this be like Facebook where you can tag people?! haha!

LOL! I am in her area! It is exciting to have more CA chicken lovers interested in Langshans! I hope to have chicks by summer.

 

[mrheinz77]

I just wish mine would lay. The hens went through such a hard molt they looked like they belonged in the meat case, not the breeding pen.

 

[MamaHenJenn]

LOL! I am in her area! It is exciting to have more CA chicken lovers interested in Langshans! I hope to have chicks by summer.

Thank you for your sweet email. I'm a little under the weather at the moment, but I'm looking forward to replying when I have a little more energy and can get to my laptop.

 

[msladyhawke]

Whoa peeps!!

I believe that she meant that the egg color is only one of the attributes she is after. I didn't hear about the eggs until joining this board as the standard calls for a brown egg to be laid by the breed.

If the egg color draws people in, it is our responsibility to share and enlighten about the breed as a whole. I refuse to sell eggs, chicks or eggs to anyone who is only after egg color. But if the same people are open to learning about the breed and would like to help breed towards the standard, I am not against sharing information until they are prepared to e stewards or the breed as a whole.

Sharing of information is/was my intent as well....apologies if it sounded otherwise.

 

[PetRock]

I just wish mine would lay. The hens went through such a hard molt they looked like they belonged in the meat case, not the breeding pen.

Mine are just starting to lay again! Of course, they all want to lay in the same nest box. It is nest box wars around here!

 

[PetRock]

Thank you for your sweet email. I'm a little under the weather at the moment, but I'm looking forward to replying when I have a little more energy and can get to my laptop.

I hope you feel better soon! I've had a sore throat/cough virus for the past week. Just when I think that I'm getting better, I over do it and take a turn for the worse. It's no fun feeling sick especially when it is so beautiful outside!

 

[msladyhawke]

Ok, next hatch batch of pics for critique/sex guesses! These are from the NYD hatch and we have 2 LF and 5 bantams, all black.
LF #1:





LF #2

 

[msladyhawke]

BANTAM #1




BANTAM #2

 

[msladyhawke]

BANTAM #3




BANTAM #4
(no there are no brown feathers, horrible lighting)



and finally, BANTAM #5

 

[mama2my4]

BANTAM #3




BANTAM #4
(no there are no brown feathers, horrible lighting)



and finally, BANTAM #5

No guesses on gender (I am always wrong...) but they sure are cute!!