Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[Jungleexplorer]

Thanks Vaughn. I know you can't tell anything but a little color this early, but I just wanted to show off your generosity. The pullet in the top pic with the slate legs is from your eggs, and has a sister that has the same color, just not as 'gold' in the neck feathers, and she has light tan legs. I'll see if I can get a pic of them together. I don't know which pen they came from, but I do know that they are from your eggs.........stan

The wild-type looking one that I have came from Pen 2, which would be the older two year old hens from cubakid and my oldest zook rooster. I would guess that your chicks came from the same pen.

 

[shamoman]

jim zook has some real nice bbreds an blue red bantams, I am concentrating on spangleds brown red, lemon blue and blacks one of my photos is out there alreday have to get some new ones .

 

[shamoman]

My spangled bantam male and black female or brown red sort of is in the gallery already. Thank you for posting the pics

 

[shamoman]

Pair of cubalayas to part with black male and white hen. Anyone interested.

 

[shamoman]

also some eggs to spare as well, whites, blacks and I must say got a real nice rooster but mean from jim zook the other day, from sam brush line big 6 lbs

 

[4hmom]

i already have birds from jim i had goten a bluered pullet this fall but befor i could breed her she just up and died one day. are the black and white cubalayas bantam

 

[cubalaya]

i had that problem with my zook birds. but i only had a few.

 

[4hmom]

could one of you all that more than than me at genetics tell me how you can cross a black american game to a bbred cubalaya and get a bluebreasted red as in RJF bbred. i understand how you could get RJF bbred out of that but i dont see how you can get blue. because i thought if a bird had the blue gene it would show it.

 

[troyer]

Here is a peppered mother and son pair. Both are dominant white.

 

[gallorojo]

could one of you all that more than than me at genetics tell me how you can cross a black american game to a bbred cubalaya and get a bluebreasted red as in RJF bbred. i understand how you could get RJF bbred out of that but i dont see how you can get blue. because i thought if a bird had the blue gene it would show it.

Generally speaking, you are right that if a bird has the blue gene as generally understood, it will show it IF the bird has " black" to be diluted to blue. Blue can "hide" under buff or white, pyles, etc, but not any kind of BB Red , if the blue in question is the standard blue gene. The problem with blue is that you can have extremely dark blues that basically look black, except they won't be " shiny ", it will be a dull flat black. I think that explains almost all the cases where blue appears out of supposedly black birds. The other option is another gene that mimics the appearance of blue but works differently . I think that's very rare but not impossible to have a different sort of blue , perhaps a recessive blue??