Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[cubalaya]

I cull for meat usually between 20 and 26 weeks. legs and thighs kinda small. breasts are decent and meat is tasty. you can process older birds but must prepare meat a little slower. I think the info that you are seeing on most sites is from carlos caballe and posted by dr Everett. there is also info from linda bayliss and others. most of this information is years old but really all we have to go on. I doubt there are any pure cubalayas left in communist cuba. gallorojo was putting a history together but not sure when it will be finished. lots of info on this thread if you have the time to read it all.

 

[southernmomma]

Ah yes, this is the information I was hoping for.
Meat for us is supplemental~ I would happily trade some size for keen foraging skills and the cock brood behavior sounds fascinating! It is something I didn't hope to find outside of the gamier breeds.
I'm not really concerned with purity but more a strain that exhibits the traits I'm searching for. Perhaps I'll find it with the Cubalaya
Are there any husbandry requirements exclusive to the Cubalaya? My intention is to provide a fenced acre that is intentionally improved for foraging opportunities (and of course coops, pens).

I'll continue to sift through the thread but thank you both for the replies!

M

 

[troyer]

Intended Cubalaya grades. I have no history on the hen, other than she is a Cubalaya bantam project bird. Here is an unusual chick down color for me. It looks to be a darkish buff-orange in color and it's feathering out completely white. I have never gotten one like this before. Any thoughts and comments? The mother is an almost black, brown red. The father's color just by looking at him looks like a mixture of blue, brownish and black with a lighter color mixed in.

 

[rambob59]

I have hatched out chicks with same down color and white feathering(no cubalaya) and it turned out to be red shouldered/breasted and head but everything behind the wing bows was white.

 

[troyer]

I have hatched out chicks with same down color and white feathering(no cubalaya) and it turned out to be red shouldered/breasted and head but everything behind the wing bows was white.

Thanks, I appreciate your input.

 

[cubalaya]

would the chick grow up to be a sport wheaton or true pyle? interesting.
i had 2 broody cubalaya hens and I didn't want to hatch any more cubalayas this spring. one of my asil hens was sitting a nest of 13 eggs. she hatched 3 and got off the nest. we had so much rain, I think the nest had got wet. I took the eggs and put them under the broody cubalaya hens. they hatched 3 more and have started raising them like they are their own.

 

[troyer]

Cubalaya grade 4 months old, large fowl.


Bantam project pullet, her tail is still growing in from being feather pecked. She is 4 months old.




Another bantam project pullet, a full sister to the wheaten one, imagine that! 3 months old.


He is from a bantam Cubalaya project, currently he is being considered for a bantam Satsumadori project. 4 months old.


Potential large fowl Lemon Blue Cubalaya coming up. 2 1/2 months old.

 

[troyer]

Another youngster.
Spangled/mottled Cubalaya cockerel.




Showing off the wide tail.

 

[cubalaya]

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pure cubalaya hen raising 2 asil chicks



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[cubalaya]

the whole duckwing pen raising an asil chick



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