Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[gallorojo]

A Brush cock head shot, this was owned by Cuban Longtails, using picture just for illustration of comb.

This is the best comb I've ever had so far.

Most of mine have very small almost cushion like combs, very tight and small . Even smaller many times than a Cornish or a Brahma, which is not correct.

I agree with Cubakid about his statements on the comb. Hopefully these pictures help.

 

[fowlsessed]

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.

Funny! Were the brown reds "sports" out of your whites?

 

[wood&feathers]

Yes, they were. Since I acquired the trio from cubalaya I have had only one cock and his full blooded sons on our place. The two brown reds came from my white hen/white cock mating, not my one wheaten hen.

 

[wood&feathers]

It didn't make sense to me when it happened, but I am told the whites can throw brown red surprises.

 

[4hmom]

i also get the cusion type comb but only on my females. and is this what you would call a good comb, because this is what i thought was good but then at a show i wentto a judge said that the comb needed to be more like a cornishes?

 

[gallorojo]

I don't know what the bantam standard says, but the large standard calls for a quite different comb than a Cornish!! This is an easily misunderstood or overlooked point. Just off the top of my head I know it should be higher in the rear and shorter in front, and not extend past eye.

 

[gallorojo]

It didn't make sense to me when it happened, but I am told the whites can throw brown red surprises.

What's happening is one or both white parents are not genetically pure homozygous white, and, or, they are different types of white. I've had wheatens, pyles, brown reds, spangleds, and mottleds all come out of white x white matings. In my case the parents were both different types of white, and not pure really anything, so all sorts of crazy stuff popped out. The thing is you can make a black, or a blue, or a laced, a buff, a white, etc, more than one way. So you can get birds that look alike but the underlying genetics are different and when you cross them you get unusual results.

 

[tigercreek]

i also get the cusion type comb but only on my females. and is this what you would call a good comb, because this is what i thought was good but then at a show i wentto a judge said that the comb needed to be more like a cornishes?

From the way I understand the SOP for large fowl, the 2nd bird has the better comb, and one I like as well as the Brush pic that Gallo posted. In the 2nd pic, the rear of his comb is higher than the front, but not to the extreme. Looks balanced to me. I don't know if you get extra credit for it being way higher in the rear than in the front, but this bird meets the standard and looks more like the illustration of the SOP. .stan

 

[troyer]

the black one looks pretty good but loose feathered. i can see some white under, is there any red in the hackle? did you grade to sumatra?

Yes, and there is a little bit of red in the hackle.

 

[cubalaya]

Yes, and there is a little bit of red in the hackle.

the black cockerel(stag) that i kept through the winter has really filled out. he is probably about 5 lbs. and may get no bigger but red is at a minimum on this guy. will breed him to my blackest hens and see if i can get rid of it in the next generation or 2. red seems to be hard to get rid of.




hey cap, i am still working on getting the white legs out of my brown reds males. they should be slate but since they are not a recognized color it just depends on what you want. have had some luck on improving their tails and the size is pretty good on the brown reds and whites. if you like this color maybe try to get some blacks or dark brown red hens. the comb on that guy looks like the old schmudde pic of a bb red i saw. nice.