Rare Central & South American (& South Pacific) Breeds

[JacinLarkwell]

@Yashar was last on BYC in 2010.

So..... he will not be answering.

Great old thread with good info and pictures.

It says May, 2022. They joined in 2010, and posted the thread 2012

 

[raingarden]

@Yashar was last on BYC in 2010.

That's when he joined. Last seen May 24, 2022.

 

[raingarden]

Yashar doesn’t have any of these birds anymore. Back when I got Ponape from him that’s the last of what he had and more recently he doesn’t even have those. He lives on a bit of a commune and they just have production-type birds now.

That's a shame. It is people like that make chickens interesting.

 

[MissLavender]

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.

 

[Alaskan]

Fantastic photos!

Thanks so much!

 

[raingarden]

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?