Langshan Thread!!!

[rodriguezpoultry]

I'm sorry, I had just received the news about Forrest and forgot to add the link. This is the chick that looks most like my own birds and one I think you should mark as a possible breeder. It shows nice black color like mine do when they hatch:

 

[msladyhawke]

Sorry for the loss of your friend M, sounded like a good one.

 

[FlaRocky]

My dear, sweet friend has passed away.

Forrest, I don't have the words to say what I have always wanted to. I thank God every day that I was fortunate enough to meet you at the Nationals in Claremore, OK that day. Otherwise, I never would have known. You tsked me until I finally got some good birds. Then, you showed me how to choose which birds were what I needed and which birds I should "make into soup". You taught me how to "lift" the coops to keep the males from having their tails torn up and laughed when they wound up molting during the show anyway!

You didn't just teach me about birds. You taught me how to turn the other cheek. When others criticized you and even called you a fool, I was always amazed at how you simply turned around and struck them dumb by your wit and your proof of knowledge. You were a great showman for both the fancy and the breed. I know we would all like to thank you for what you have not only done for the breed, but for the poultry show world everywhere. You will always be a legend to me.

Thank you, my dear friend, mentor, and my hero.

 

Rest in Peace Forrest,

Mikaela

http://www.mmsfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Forrest-Beauford/

Mikaela,

Sorry for your loss of a great friend and mentor. If we all could have somone just like him in our lives the world would be so much better off.......



Maye

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Thank you all. I guess I just thought he'd go on and on. Gonna miss that old man alot.

I'm going to strive to be like he was...crotchity, stubborn and a great teacher.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

I just received the word about Forrest.

Forrest and I were both Conservatives. Both Assembly of God. And both loved poultry. We disagreed often! However, we would agree to disagree. He was a friend! Our loss is Heaven's gain!

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Wonder when the Langshan statute will be relocated to the National Poultry Museum?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

No idea Jim. I hope it isn't moved until after I get to pay proper respects to Forrest in 2 weeks.

Looks like it's a good thing I didn't sell that blue Langshan cock. Clyde, my 8 year old male, passed on today. He was the male I originally got from Forrest and was the last "true" link I had to him. I think Forrest is trying to make me do my own breeding now! lol! That rooster didn't cover anything after his first year...he would get on and then think "Nah...too tired/lazy." But I got several excellent chicks from him.

He was the patriarch of my entire line. I loved that bird. Half-blind and colorist that he was (if he jumped on anything it was only something white). My grouchy old man finally gave up the ghost.

I feel awful as it may have been prevented. I just checked all of my birds for mites last Saturday. How does something take hold THAT fast? He was covered. I have never seen an infestation so bad. None of my other birds had so much as a speck on them, and he was covered head to toe in a mass of moving icky. I tried to save him, and brought him inside. And soon learned that Northern Fowl Mites can live off their host and find new ones...in the form of cats, dogs and humans. I ran home and Clyde was expired at that point. I moved his remains outside and bug-bombed and sprayed the entirety of the bathroom. It was like mite-ageddon.

I know Forrest is up there laughing his head off at me today.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

From http://www.geocities.ws/langshan_99/AMERICAN_LANGSHAN_CLUB.html

Stinger 2005 Champion Langshan at the American Langshan's National Meet, Lucasville Ohio, 28/29 May. Bred and owned by Forrest Beauford of Claremore, Ok..

Forrest Daniel Beauford

September 15, 1923 - May 30, 2012

 

[PetRock]

Just had to share some cuteness this morning! I helped Cheryl hatch the start of our Langshan project this past weekend. Here are pics of some of the little darlings! I do have a question about the feathering on their toes. Almost all of them have feathers or nubs on their middle toes. This is a fault, correct? How hard is it to get rid of this?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

How cute are they?!

Don't worry about the down on their middle toes as of right now. I like to see a small but of down on their middle toes as chicks. This usually means the outer leg feathering will be nice and heavy. Once they molt out, the middle toe feathering usually disappears.