Posts by gallorojo

I know Jim has done a lot of work in getting rid of the white in the tails and wings. The ones I've had recently haven't had any white. That being said, the original birds I started with, which were second hand Zook birds, all had white...

Excellent additional comments regarding the standard, Saladin, thanks!!   Here is a picture from this week of the father to the blue project youngsters I posted earlier.  He's a Zook bird, he looks a bit pale because he's...

Good looking bantams 4h Mom!! You can really see the difference in those 2 lines.

Although birds are not generally weighed anymore, a good judge will still disqualify a grossly over or underweight bird. The deal with the weight is that the standard spells out an ideal weight, but allows a 20 percent range over and...

Those chicks look pretty decent thus far.

The blues I have are Andalusian blues. Felix had originally asked which blue breed was crossed in to make them, and I honestly answered " none", as the blue came from blue red Cubas. I am not going to explain further how they were made...

Quote:Originally Posted by Felix1 So the blue red will throw solid blues? Is this when bred to each other or is it blue red bred to another color? Solids blues cannot come from blue reds. These started from gold laced crossed with...

You are right of course! I guess I will add this line of blues didn't start by an outcross to a blue or a black breed at all. They have had black Cubalayas bred in recently , but there were solid blue females before ever using a blue or...

Quote:Originally Posted by Felix1 What is usually graded in to get the blue color? The blue actually came from blue red Cubalayas. You don't have to go outside the breed to get blue, but to get blacks, you have to get some someone...

    Advertisement from 1999 Poultry Press for Castagnetti Cubalayas. Thanks to Saladin for sending me the picture. I would have posted it earlier except I could not figure out how to get photobucket to work!!