Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[Jungleexplorer]

I really like this male. Is it your best? How many did you keep? Is his tail filled in? I like how his tail is very low! Like the color too. He seems like he will have the lobster tail that I lack in my birds. Your doing well.
Zach

I have 11 cockerels from Welp. One has blue legs and one has 1 white wing feather, so they are culls. The other 9 look pretty similar to this one with minor differences. This one is one of the heaviest ( I have not weighed the all but he is visibly larger then most of them). Here is a couple group pics of them.

 

[cubalaya]

jungle, looks like you have a few birds to work with now

they look pretty good

 

[tigercreek]

What a difference between those and your other hatchery birds!! Looking good Jungle, now just start adding the tail grow supplement to the regular feed...... stan

 

[cubakid]

I like the bottom right cockerel from the top view on the first picture. He seems to have a decent head too. They are looking healthy! Keep up the good work!

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Thanks everyone. I really like them. Stan, are you sending me to find marbles for the marble cake? LOL! Is there really such a thing as tail grower supplement? I f there is, I had no idea that such a thing existed. That would be a good thing to know if I were preparing a bird for show.

My problem now is choosing which ones to cull. Aside from the obvious things like leg color and white feathers, the only other thing I have to judge by is weight. Well, one does hold his tail too high so he is a cull too. That leaves me eight bird to choose from. I think another day I will take pictures of all eight individually for you expert judges to look at and choose the winner. It will be like my own show in which I am the only contestant. I can't lose. LOL!

HAPPY 4th everyone!

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Hi, okay I have been doing some reading and have seen Cubalayas often being referred to as Cuban games. So they aren't "true" Cuban gamefowl? I have been looking up stuff about true Cuban gamefowl but not finding too much on them. I saw a few things about Cuban gamefowl being referred to as red cubans, doms, etc. So those are the "true" Cuban gamefowl then?

 

[cubalaya]

cubalayas are not game. cuban gamefowl is another breed.

 

[4hmom]

ive heard cubalayas refered to as cuban games and thougt it was because what they were created from (OGs) and where they were created (cuba) had no clue there was a breed called cuban games.

 

[4hmom]

ive heard cubalayas refered to as cuban games and thougt it was because what they were created from (OGs) and where they were created (cuba) had no clue there was a breed called cuban games.

 

[cubalaya]

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