Rare Central & South American (& South Pacific) Breeds

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I’m looking for Huastec. Hatching eggs or chicks. I’m in Southern Ca and obtained some birds that I think were Houstec or mixed with that breed and they are my favorite chickens. Pm me if you have some to sell me or any info.
I know this is an old post, but I have some Huastecs from Kermit that I need to rehome if you’re still looking. I’m in Arizona. 🙂
 
Any photos?
Lots! It’s primarily the roosters I need to find homes for. There is also one hen I would be willing to part with, but the others I am keeping. These were outcrossed to Pacific Junglefowl x Chilean Passion Fowl for genetic diversity on the rooster’s side, so he is half Huastec. The mother of these birds is a Huastec from southern Mexico.

One of the young cockerels:
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The dark hen with the crest and beard is the mother. The pullet to her right is the one I can part with.
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More youngsters
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The father:
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Young Cockerel:
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Mom and Dad
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Cockerels:
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You have to wonder where the original Huastecs got their fibro black bones. They are called an "ancient" breed but there were no chickens in Mesoamerica before the arrival of Cortez in the early 16th Century. They had already been breeding chickens in Eurasia for many thousand years by then. Black Quechua Olmec was another Mesoamerica fibro breed. They happen to lay pink eggs that look like many eggs from Ayam Cemani (although some AC lay a cream/white egg). So, did the fibro gene arise independently in Mesoamerica, or did Southeast Asian chickens somehow make their way to the Americas?
 

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