Langshan Thread!!!

[cluckcluckluke]

thanks, i just wanted to know the rough size of a 8 week old langshang, because im getting 4-5 8 week old pure bred chicks and i just wanted to know if theyd fit in the cage ive got, which they should.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

You all seem like a very helpful bunch could anyone help me out with this? (it;s relevant to Langshangs)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/710017/trio-quad-sized-cages#post_9677390

 

[PetRock]

They do grow fast and like lots of space so plan ahead and make them larger than you think that you need. I've raised several hatches of Langshans this summer and no matter how big the brooder/pen space was, once they got past 5 or 6 weeks, it wasn't big enough. I had one group of little cockerels that began seriously pecking on each other and part of the problem was not enough space.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I seriously think it also depends on the lines. I have trios and quads in a 3 foot x 5 foot pen. They never leave them. No picking or overbreeding.

But if you have the space, give them as much room as possible.

 

[PetRock]

Your birds are exceptionally nice, Mikaela! I hatched and raised several of your chicks this summer and love them! I am so sorry that I am not going to be able to breed them right now. I am not allowed to have a rooster where I am in town so no breeding for me. I do have a friend who is looking for an heritage dual purpose breed or two to start raising and I'm talking up Langshans to her!

 

[cluckcluckluke]

They do grow fast and like lots of space so plan ahead and make them larger than you think that you need. I've raised several hatches of Langshans this summer and no matter how big the brooder/pen space was, once they got past 5 or 6 weeks, it wasn't big enough. I had one group of little cockerels that began seriously pecking on each other and part of the problem was not enough space.

I seriously think it also depends on the lines. I have trios and quads in a 3 foot x 5 foot pen. They never leave them. No picking or overbreeding.
But if you have the space, give them as much room as possible.

ye they can get quite big, i have planned ahead and i will give them as much room as possible. I just have to try and weave through my existing flock and extend my run. I will try and give them as much room as possible, is just that i'm working on a hill (so much harder) i don't have much flat. thank you for all the help though

, good to see.

 

[thorleif]

I really love watching your photos, especcially the blue and the splash ones. We do not have any blue Large fowl Langshans here in the UK. They bred them here 100 years ago, they even had their own breed-club. The Croad Langshan Club does not aprove of them, and they are not in the standard. Nobody has bred them over here since the 1930's or so. A few are experimenting with blue bantams, though, but they dont breed true yet, that may take some years. But it is fascinating to see how little difference there is in your and our Langshan. In China they all seem to have lost the leg-feathering. It must be an extremely old breed to breed so true, very few Langshans has crossed the Atlantic the last 50-60-70 years, and yet, we could easily breed with each others Langshans. If I had been younger, I would have imported some eggs from you, and mixed them with my own. But, I am NOT younger.

 

[thorleif]

I tried to copy some photos from the Chinese Langshan-website, but it would not let me. They have a state-owned Langshan-farm, started 50 years ago, to protect the breed. They breed 10.000 chicks every year! Link: http://detail.china.alibaba.com/offer/751577749.html

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I see some similarties between our birds and that hatchery, but I am somewhat depressed in the breeding practices. It does not seem much different than our own hatcheries here. The combs are so large it looks similar to a Leghorn and they've lost the large size.

But then again, who knows if that was what they had originally looked like? I do love looking at your whites.

They do not have bantam Langshans in the UK? You're joking! I had thought they would have some good bantams in the UK!

 

[thorleif]

Oh, yes, they have some rally good Bantams, her, but you only see the whites and the blacks on the shows. The Croad Langshan Club dont like Blues, for some reason. I would have made big blues myself if I was younger. I agree with the combs on the Chinese birds. I thing both the Americans and the Europeans have been better at preserving the breed, my hens (and boyos) look exactly as the dit more than 100 years ago, and when you read the American and the English standard from the 1910's-20's they just fit the bill. And your American ones are so similar to what we call Croad.


Makes me proud, my slogan on a Danish poultrysite is "When the last living animal of a breed breathes it's last breath, we have lost another part of our past". I think it is so sad when any animal/bird/insect die out, that means that our grandchildrens kids will never see them.