Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[cubalaya]

fowl, did your hen get broody first or did you just put a bunch of eggs in with her and she decided to sit on them? since i still have my asil cock in with the hens, i want them to raise a pure clutch of chicks first and then do the asil grades. they have been laying a few here and there but i have been eating them so far.

 

[Cap Blood]

This is Toomy, an adopted Cubalaya from Wooden~Feathers' group. Mama didn't want him but we certainly did. Broody rejection!

 

[fowlsessed]

Yea, she laid and went broody.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Nice rooster Cap Blood!

 

[gallorojo]

Cap Blood, welcome aboard!! I like your cockerel, his comb is closer to the standard than most you see, and his colors are very bright. I like the white legs , he is a brown red, and many of mine have tended to slate or black legs. Do you have more Cubalayas or just the one?

Jungle, very nice mature bird in your picture, excellent!!

 

[troyer]

Welcome Cap Blood. That is quite the comb on that cockerel! Sharp bright colors also.

 

[troyer]

Finally got a good picture of my 2 year old BBRed rooster.

I like that full tail on that cock.

 

[wood&feathers]

Yes, it really is me, not the asil hen. She taps me lightly but really isn't that bothered, and has learned to perk up and accept treats. I just got whacked real hard last summer by a BC Marans - still have the scar. The cubas and asils seem much more sensible on the nest.

 

[cubakid]

When I think of the comb it is uplifted( not as severe as the brown red picture recently, but not following the head) there should be three rows, but there are no serrations, and they make three waving lines. This is my interpretation of the "serrationless, undulating lines. Waving rows with no or little points. It is very different from the pea comb of other breeds(brahma, aseel, Cornish). The brush birds in my opinion are the best example of this.

 

[wood&feathers]

Howdy Cap, glad to meet you on BYC!

Toomy is the cockerel I tried to post a Facebook link to earlier. He is a very nice brown red, with white legs and a nice comb. Despite the angle his tail is nice and full, his hackles have purer color and he is superior in every way to the brown red I kept. Cubalaya you might get a chuckle at my vacation timing - Toomy was born while I was in Virginia and Cap was one of my pet sitters. Toomy was part of a clutch under my old reliable cuckoo Marans broody. The broody hatched most of the clutch and left the nest with 6 chicks. This cockerel hatched maybe 30 minutes late. My sitters tried to put him under the hen that night - nothing doing. Tried again the next night, no luck. Meanwhile I get a panicky phone call asking why all of a sudden there was a seventh chick with the hen. The broody (her 4th brood) had apparently left the nest with one more brown red chick (or the pipping egg?) tucked under her wing, and he hit the ground a day late, after all the egg stuff was cleaned from the nest! No wonder the hen was resisting any more chicks.

Toomy spent a few days in the armpit of our other chicken sitter (vegan hippies make great sitters! this was the other sitter, not Cap) before we gave up trying to get the broodies to take him. Cap Blood took him and a white pullet chick home. I really appreciate their help through all that.

I am very tickled to have a hen sit a clutch at the "normal" time of year for chicks. In the past my broodies have liked June-early July, which is a pain for family trips.