Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[saladin]

Then he still has some growing to do. From the photos he seems to be a great bird.

 

[cubalaya]

nice bb red

 

[VictorB]

Thanks all.

 

[troyer]

White Cubalaya, he has been in the sun as much as he has wanted to be. He is very brassy, it looks almost lemony yellow.

 

[wood&feathers]

In spite of snow forecast tonight, the birds think it is spring. I gave up ranging my 2 cocks with the whole flock, and put them in separate pens - someone was going to get hurt. I have 4 cubalayas and one Jap/cuba mix that are nearing a month old, being reared by a Jap hen. Two more hens are trying to go broody. Last fall's 3 chicks are all pullets. Two are black, but one is stippled with brown. She must be a throwback to the 1/8Thai, she is quite a bit larger than the solid blacks.

 

[wood&feathers]

And a couple shots of my favorite wheaten pullet, hatched in August:

 

[wood&feathers]

Head shot of that black/brown stippled pullet:

 

[troyer]

In spite of snow forecast tonight, the birds think it is spring. I gave up ranging my 2 cocks with the whole flock, and put them in separate pens - someone was going to get hurt. I have 4 cubalayas and one Jap/cuba mix that are nearing a month old, being reared by a Jap hen. Two more hens are trying to go broody. Last fall's 3 chicks are all pullets. Two are black, but one is stippled with brown. She must be a throwback to the 1/8Thai, she is quite a bit larger than the solid blacks.

The stippled pullet looks very attractive, she shows her recent oriental influence quite a bit yet.

 

[wood&feathers]

Yes, the 2 black pullets look more cubalaya, but they are much smaller. All 3 have low tail carriage, just not always well fanned.

 

[cubalaya]

they lookin good, wood.
here is a peppered pullet, a brown red hen, and bb red cock

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