Langshan Thread!!!

[rodriguezpoultry]

The things I would do with lottery money....

I still have issues discerning what the exact issues is between the Modern and Croad. Is the Modern a more upright bird? Does the Modern have feathering on their legs or clean-legged? The German/Australian Langshan lacks leg feathering and resembles a modern game in the legs but with the shape of a wine glass to top it off. Can anyone give an exact definition of the Modern Game? I've asked some breeders in the UK but can't seem to get a straight answer unfortunately.

Either way, I do have some promising offspring that lack leg feathering from a very close breeding group...BUT...it'll take a few years before anything can even breed. I'm hoping to get some more from that pen and just put 6 eggs under another hen. (Number 22 broody since March...I'm a lucky girl this year! haha!)

 

[hecatesmoon]

Got it. Thank you, Dirt.
I will not go into who or where, but someone was saying that the person I decided to get Langshans from doesn't have REAL Croad Langshans, and having looked at the photos of their birds, looking at the birds online, I fail to see how they could be anything else, and to see it stated there IS no other type in the U.S. just confirms what I already felt I knew.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Lol! Welcome to the confusion hecates and I hope you have an excellent hatch with your eggs!

 

[hecatesmoon]

Well I've been trying to find a picture of a Modern, but I cannot find one. But just from the description they are very angular?
So far as I'm concerned, if it LOOKS like a Croad and it WALKS like a Croad.....
Thank you, RoPo. I'm pretty excited to be getting these and hopefully getting to see them in person. I feel like I'm very lucky in almost missing what I think is surely a treasure. And if not for the person making that statement, I would not have taken the time or trouble to look into them enough to have ordered the eggs at all!
The lines they are coming from are a Joe Oakley, Garland Elkins, and your late mentor, Mr. Beauford.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I don't personally know Mr. Elkins, but have met and talked with Joe routinely. You'll get some good birds from him! What colors did you get?

 

[hecatesmoon]

I was given a choice for blue, black, splash or to get black and blue-- a blue over Mr. Beauford's black. I saw how fondly you spoke of him, and I did a search online for him also. He was a very capable breeder from the looks of what I found so I chose the blue over Beauford blacks.

 

[msladyhawke]

Is anyone going to the Bath, NY shows this weekend? I am headed up.

 

[Dirt Farmer]

The Poultry Club of Great Britain has a picture of a Modern Langshan on their website, and Feathersite has pictures of German Langshans (all bantams I think). The Livestock Conservancy (formally The American Livestock Conservancy) has as an explaination of the Langshan family tree that is brief on their website. Sorry to be so brief myself but I have to go earn a living to feed chickens.

 

[PetRock]

The Poultry Club of Great Britain has a picture of a Modern Langshan on their website, and Feathersite has pictures of German Langshans (all bantams I think). The Livestock Conservancy (formally The American Livestock Conservancy) has as an explaination of the Langshan family tree that is brief on their website. Sorry to be so brief myself but I have to go earn a living to feed chickens.

http://www.livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/langshan

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

The Poultry Club of Great Britain has a picture of a Modern Langshan on their website, and Feathersite has pictures of German Langshans (all bantams I think). The Livestock Conservancy (formally The American Livestock Conservancy) has as an explaination of the Langshan family tree that is brief on their website. Sorry to be so brief myself but I have to go earn a living to feed chickens.

Thanks for stopping in! I do the same myself...often tend to "forget" to get online unfortunately!

I went onto the Great Britain website, but couldn't find the photo you were talking about? I only saw the Blue German Langshan on the page next to a Shamo? Interesting on the Modern Game explanation though...Sounds somewhat similar to a Malay with feathers on it's legs?