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When you say "small" do you mean as in Cubalayas are smaller than "regular" large fowl? Or small as in a few weeks old?? If you put 25 adult birds in 32 sq ft of space, that is WAY WAY too little space. Then in 120 sq ft? That is "temporary housing" space for that many birds. You need more...

Geez if you don't know, no one does. You've been raising Cubalayas quite a while now! Interesting pattern. Head, body and tail are Cubalaya but I don't think I've seen a "Columbian" shawl and wild partridge feather pattern posted before. Of course I am as "expert" in Cubalayas as anyone else...

Looks like my Blue Breasted Red Cubalaya hen.

I didn't say I was going to take your machete! I said I was going to use it "when your time came" so you wouldn't suffer! We should be as humane to you as you are to your chickens You can decide who gets your machete after. No doubt using the machete to cut the slots in the PVC pipe All...

I ASSUMED he left out the NOT, as in "should NOT be breeding chickens". That makes sense to me, unless you are just "breeding" them to get chickens to eat. I suspect you are doing no one, or the breed, any favors by breeding whatever hatches instead of sending the low quality ones to freezer...

They are quite striking though I don't think I would want them roosting over the feeder. Bruce

Yes, they are just over 9 months old. Ideal Hatchery so nothing special. Found the reference to slow maturing: "This breed is slow to mature taking up to three years to reach adulthood" http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/cubalaya.html I like this part: "The trait most favored in this breed is their...

I'm still waiting for that One of mine 2 has averaged just under 2.5 per week, the other just over 2 per week. She hasn't laid since 3/16 (and has never been broody) the first only 3 since then. Only once have I gotten anything as "huge" as "just barely USDA Small". It would be nice if they...

Thank you all. Very informative. While I still have to wrap my head around the concept of "as long as it looks right" I can understand it My first mistake (or, more accurately, ignorance) was ASSUMING that chickens were like other animals when it came to being "pure bred". One would, again...

OK, as a non breeder, I am TOTALLY CONFUSED. How do you start with a Cubalaya cock and a Thai hen, breed resulting brother to sister, cousin to cousin and end up with a chicken you can really call a Cubalaya? None of them is more than half Cubalaya. I would have thought (and apparently VERY...

That is what I thought and I don't even breed chickens! A Cubalaya with a beard? Gotta be a DQ.

I don't have a hanging scale. Maybe I could pack up the birds and go to the produce section of the grocery store. "Don't mind me people, I'm just checking my chicken's weight" I have a small counter scale that I use to weigh the eggs (The Cubalaya eggs are running 38 to 40 grams recently)...

I was sure you were sending me to find a "left handed baseball bat" but what do you know, I found several references to hypnotizing chickens, including (of course) YouTube videos. Pretty amazing. I'll have to try it just for fun. Bruce

Must be a "sibling" of my two. They were also hatched 6/13. I've not weighed them. Not sure how I would get them to stay still anyway. The face on the girl from Florida is much redder than what mine show. Comb is bigger too. Bruce

"NOT AT ALL NOISY" Not so sure about that one Fae is pretty quiet. Peep was so named because she peeped a lot when she was little. Now she "Squarks" a lot. I'm pretty sure she is saying "Hey, got any goodies?" and she says it A LOT. But they are cute little birds, very pleasant. So, so on...

I ASSUME that they are judging the tail angle when the bird is upright. My girls have tails up when their heads are down, as in the picture in question. Nicely down when they aren't foraging. Bruce

For comparison, here are my Ideal girls. Ordered 2 Blue Red and got one plus the red splash/pyle, Hard to get pictures of them since they are always head down eating! And yes, they fly, though like all my other birds, they prefer to walk. 3 months 6 months Bruce

Where is the "Winter" part? I see a lot of green grass

I haven't weighed mine but they are pretty small. Maybe one day their eggs will hit Small. At 7 months their eggs are 38-40g - half way between Peewee and Small. Bruce