Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[troyer]

Here is an update on some of my blues and my flashy wheaten 2 year old rooster.

 

[pinusresinosa]

Today is day 19 of incubating my first ever cubalayas. This baby pipped yesterday evening and hatched out, quick and clean and without any fuss. So quiet! Is that pretty typical of this breed?

As far as colors that I have, I assume that these are "standard" colors if there is one? I read that the person I got these eggs from got his adults from Sandhill I believe.

 

[cubalaya]

congrats, I know you will enjoy them.

 

[pinusresinosa]

Grabbed a quick photo of the two that just hatched.

 

[pinusresinosa]

congrats, I know you will enjoy them.

Thank you!

 

[troyer]

Today is day 19 of incubating my first ever cubalayas. This baby pipped yesterday evening and hatched out, quick and clean and without any fuss. So quiet! Is that pretty typical of this breed?

As far as colors that I have, I assume that these are "standard" colors if there is one? I read that the person I got these eggs from got his adults from Sandhill I believe.

My Cubalaya chicks tend to be quieter than all the other breeds I've ever had. They are also the friendliest without a lot of handling.

 

[wood&feathers]

Troyer, that lovely laced blue hen brings up a question in my mind. No one in our area poultry clubs have seen this breed. In the wheaten hens a common knock is the tendency toward light colored shafting and lacing on the hens' cushion. Then I see lovely pictures from our German friends of hens with the same tendency. Is this lacing and shafting part of the cinnamon type wheaten, or a flaw?

 

[troyer]

Troyer, that lovely laced blue hen brings up a question in my mind. No one in our area poultry clubs have seen this breed. In the wheaten hens a common knock is the tendency toward light colored shafting and lacing on the hens' cushion. Then I see lovely pictures from our German friends of hens with the same tendency. Is this lacing and shafting part of the cinnamon type wheaten, or a flaw?

Could you post a picture of what you mean? Here is a closeup of a pullet that I have, she's a spangled wheaten.

 

[troyer]

In my blues I am specifically selecting for only the darker lacing, but I want the shafts to be the same color as the rest of the feather. I am supposing that selection could be made against it if it was needed in the wheatens, but I really don't know if it's required. This is an excellent question to consider.

 

[wood&feathers]

Troyer thank you, your pictures illustrate what I am asking. But here is a closer view of my most decent wheaten hen, with both the light shafting and light colored lace edges on her cushion. I guess the question should be aimed at someone with APA experience. I find it attractive but the only APA judge I have ever met (Tim Clanton) calls these faults.