Langshan Thread!!!

[AllCreaturesCA]

Congrats!  How many did you end up with again?  Do you have any pics??? 

 

[AllCreaturesCA]

Are there any Langshan breeders bringing eggs or chicks to the Modesto show?

 

[SnowChik]

So glad you like them! Out of all my birds, only the Langshans go for the tops of the feeders! It's funny watching them vs. the Brahmas when they're growing up! The Brahmas run to me to "tattle" on the Langshans and the Langshans continue to chow down.

I'm so in love with all of them...thank you again!!! They are definitely food motivated, and they know how to get the goods!

Here's a funny photo sequence...this is Alecia, the single chick who hatched in June. We had to hand-raise her for a while and when she was a baby her favorite spot was on my husband's shoulder



I brought her inside the other night and she remembered her favorite spot...but my how she's grown!



She was sitting on my lap and then when she spied my husband she immediately flew to his chair and reclaimed her spot! Who says they can't remember things?

 

[PetRock]

Greetings, All! Is anyone getting geared up for hatching? I got a late start on breeding Langshan last year so all of my young ones are 16-20 weeks old. I put my blue rooster over several of my black hens and ended up with more than 50% blue chicks. I'm hoping to breed the best of the blue pullets back to my blue rooster to get some splash. But it looks like I'm probably another year away from that. If any of them mature nicely, I would like to enter them in the Heirloom Expo show in Santa Rosa, CA next Sept. I'm wanting to get into showing and I think that show would be an easy first experience.

Here are a few pics of my young pullets and one cockerel who escaped the cockerel round-up:













And the smart, escape artist cockerel! The rest of the cockerels are at the farm. I'll try to get some pics of them.

 

[SusanD]

Hi,

I have a Langshan hen (no signs that would indicate a rooster) that will be a year this month, and has never laid (but has gotten the red comb and wattles, and I think would pass the pelvic bone test). If you were me, would you be concerned that she has internal issues that are preventing her from laying or give it more time?

Also, I think she needs a foot wash (broken feather on her foot, and the feathers are very dirty). Would it be better to pull the broken feather or to trim it (at the break) using scissors?

 

[Soaring Chicks]

Hello, I had to get out of chickens well the breeding and selling part,but I'm getting back in and I have always loved this breed but never got to get any before.
Where or who is the best ones or chances of getting the blue and the black from?
I just want good stock does not have to be sq. I'm having to start over after a move and hope to get some.
I'm in NC near Va line and Kerr lake. Some great looking langshans y'all have.
Thanks

 

[informative]

Strange offer, but I'm in the Greater Seattle area and I have a GORGEOUS Langshan mutt cockerel. He is not a crower, but he has started making little bits of noise trying to get his girls up and out of the coop at about 7am. If the noisemaking continues, we're gonna have to eat him! But he is very quiet, well mannered, will eat out of your hand but runs when you try to grab him. If anyone wants him, you can HAVE him. He is HUGE too!
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I'm not surprised by this at all. My Buff Orps are very self-segregated the head BO roo chases off any black birds when his girls are eating any treats I put out. The Black Langshans on the other hand refuse to bunk with all the other chickens and have taken up traveling with a Red New Hampshire roo instead so they keep creating the most beautiful black birds with red neck feathers penciled in. Other breeds like Black Jersey tend to also self-segregate. But not those Langshans - thought of making soup out of that New Hampshire who follows the BL girls around but they all seem so happy as a pack.

 

[Soaring Chicks]

I'm getting blue Langshans in May ! I can't wait to work with this breed. Any pointers for me? I got them from a person that shows and as they will be chicks I want to be able to pick out the best and ones to sop. I have a sop book but I have to find it in the box I packed it in when we moved. I hope to get a show pair of the blacks too.
Anyway hope y'all will give pointers and help when I get them and they start growing out.

 

[PetRock]

I'm getting blue Langshans in May ! I can't wait to work with this breed. Any pointers for me? I got them from a person that shows and as they will be chicks I want to be able to pick out the best and ones to sop. I have a sop book but I have to find it in the box I packed it in when we moved. I hope to get a show pair of the blacks too.
Anyway hope y'all will give pointers and help when I get them and they start growing out.

How exciting!!! I'm fairly new to breeding blue Langshan so I'm sure other people have more advice to offer you than me. Remember that this is a very slow maturing breed. I try to let the ones without any major flaws have time to develop before culling. Also, I have been concentrating on improving body conformation and when I have that consistent, then I'll work on the coloring, lacing, etc.

 

[PetRock]

I have my first Langshan hatch of the season peeping in the incubator!!! 11 out of 15 so far and most of them are blues!