Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[gallorojo]

Hatchery/production type Plymouth Rock. That's a nice picture, taken in 2009.

 

[BennieLangdon]

just got this guy.....looks kinda rough(he had been fighting threw the wire at the othe farm I got him from) at the moment....will post some new pics of him when I get him looking better

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Looks like an Ideal bird to me.

 

[tigercreek]

When is the best time of year to pester breeders for birds, chicks or eggs?? Also, I have been trying to e-mail Jim Zook from his web page, but not gotten an answer. Does anyone have contact information for him that is public so I can try to get in touch with him another way?? Any help will be much appreciated. I would prefer to find someone in the southeast if I am able to get birds, and I would rather have someone close if I have to ship eggs. ......stan

 

[gallorojo]

Jim is busy right now.

Also, he generally doesn't start hatching this early anyway. He lives in a colder zone than me, and I was having eggs freeze solid and crack in 2 hours the past few days, which makes the whole collecting of eggs pretty challenging. His pens are not heated or insulated, either. He usually will have eggs available in March or April, and he will have birds for sale in late summer or early fall through about Christmas. If he is not responding to his emails, he is either busy, away, or has no birds to offer. If you don't hear anything back in a few weeks , try again in spring. You would be better off trying to find someone closer, to be honest, and, better off getting birds rather than eggs.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

When is the best time of year to pester breeders for birds, chicks or eggs?? Also, I have been trying to e-mail Jim Zook from his web page, but not gotten an answer. Does anyone have contact information for him that is public so I can try to get in touch with him another way?? Any help will be much appreciated. I would prefer to find someone in the southeast if I am able to get birds, and I would rather have someone close if I have to ship eggs. ......stan

I live in a warmer climate and I am already collecting and incubating eggs. I just put my first dozen in the incubator two days ago. My birds are Zook roosters and Cubakid hens. I have two Zook hens (BBRed and Blue Red). The BBRed is laying but her eggs are very small right now, so I am am not incubating them. Once my incubator is full (48 eggs), I will have some extra eggs that I can send you. I have five cuba hens laying and I get about 12 or 13 eggs in four days. You can look at my gallery to see some of my birds. PM me if you are interested.

 

[tigercreek]

You would be better off trying to find someone closer, to be honest, and, better off getting birds rather than eggs.

I agree completely!! I have never had good results with shipped eggs, and I would very much prefer chicks, or quality culls. From what little I have been able to glean from this and one or 2 other sites though, Zook's birds are very highly thought of, and he is one of the few to have numbers large enough to offer them to people that he does not know. I may end up ordering from Urch, Strombergs or Sandhill, but would rather look for a source from someone who might have a variety other than BBRs. I do have 2 prospective breeders in Fla that I might be able to get a start from, and a couple that are in areas I often travel to. Just looking at options still at this point. This does not seem an easy breed to aquire as there are so few people working seriously with them.......stan

 

[tigercreek]

And please excuse my manners, I do appreciate you taking the time to reply!! ..stan

 

[tigercreek]

I live in a warmer climate and I am already collecting and incubating eggs. I just put my first dozen in the incubator two days ago. My birds are Zook roosters and Cubakid hens. I have two Zook hens laying (BBRed and Blue Red), but they are still pullets and their eggs are very small right now, so I am am not incubating them. Once my incubator is full (48 eggs), I will have some extra eggs that I can send you. I have five cuba hens laying and I get about 12 or 13 eggs in four days. You can look at my gallery to see some of my birds. PM me if you are interested.

P.M. sent. You have some very good looking birds there and I very much appreciate the offer. That blue hen and the blue golden cockerel are much to my liking...Hope he fills out for you to have the size of the reds. Looks like the is posing pic of the year. ......stan

 

[fowlsessed]

So I was Blessed with that pair of Cubas, thanks Wood. They are a little on the small side, but I really wanted bantams, sooooo......what are some of the most obvious problems I may run into breeding them for bantams? Would it take a really long time? And is it harder than breeding to get them bigger?
Thanks for any and all of your advice,