As was mentioned, 1 & 2 are pullets , 3 is a cockerel. With Cubalayas, the color is called BBRed or Blue Red, and not wheaten (despite resembling wheaten). 1 & 3 are Blue Red, 2 is BBRed (and has what we call smut - excessive black pigment on a female).
Hope that helps!
The University of Arkansas has 10 Cubalaya chicks on the ground. This will be the start of a new line off of my own. I still have all of my birds at home, but only get to see them twice per year. Now I will be able to breed year round with no costs. Hatch hundreds and cull very hard. I see lots...
I have pictures of some of our Australorps posted on our Facebook page, Rose's Poultry if anyone wants to take a look. It is a new page, so not a lot there yet, but I am working on more stuff.
Heritage birds of any breed, should match up to the Standard pretty well, while having their purpose intact. Production birds are that, a production bird. They may have a slight similarity, but are generally crosses that are dual purpose birds.
Thanks Jimmy.
Dana. My birds are already on their way to Hollister, but I do have Cock birds available. I have four or five, and I can have one brought to Modesto if you are interested.
Zach
If y'all haven't already checked us out on Facebook, look up our page Rose's Poultry. I'm just getting it started, so there will be more pictures in the future.
Zach
Something is going on in the breeding pen. The color coming through shouldnt have come out of any blue black or splash breeding in that amount. Also his comb looks like a cross between single and pea. also the face is far too red, eyes too light in color... i dont think its pure sumatra to be...
Breeding your mottled with blacks will give chicks that carry mottling... breed them to the mottled father and you will get mottleds. The other colors are a whole different pattern, where black and mottled are both black with the exception of the mottling gene(which is recessive).
Slate legs carry the dermal inhibitor gene that makes one layer black(inside) and the outside white, giving the slate appearance. Slate and blue legs are the same, my birds have black legs, with white pads, although most the males are almost white legged with some black mixed into it. You have...
Vidal, turns out your only two hours away from me. I have birds if you are interested, most are about 16 months old and were bred from this past spring. I have just about every color, an have many BBReds for sale. I'll have to get back to you on prices.
Zach
Cubalayas are wheaten based(what you call the tan color) and also come in black, blue, white, an many other colors. There are no different types, but there are some variations in color.
Well no two breeds produce another. It takes many many many generations to get a new breed. You can breed anything you want together. But they are just crosses.