Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[troyer]

Black line blue pullet. Sire is completely black with no red or white anywhere as a 2 year old. Dam is solid white.

 

[troyer]

Black line cockerel, still quite young.

 

[troyer]

Black line white cockerel about 8 months in this picture. Too much wattle, but that can be selected against. He is good enough otherwise to use him for breeding. He is a combination of two old lines that were almost extinct and are now being brought back again. His mother is black and his sire is white. Another plus is that he has the standard preferred multiple spurs. I don't select for multiple spurs necessarily, but when all things are equal in two comparable cockerels, I'll breed from the multiple spurred one.

 

[nicalandia]

Black line blue pullet. Sire is completely black with no red or white anywhere as a 2 year old. Dam is solid white.

The pure White dame is clearly a Splash(two copies of blue Bl/Bl)

 

[nicalandia]

Black line cockerel, still quite young.View attachment 2940620View attachment 2940621

Those black ones really look like Sumatras

 

[MysteryChicken]

I like the looks of Cubalayas. I may get some, or create a chicken variety with same characteristics.

 

[Chiduckn]

I like the looks of Cubalayas. I may get some, or create a chicken variety with same characteristics.

Get you some pure ones. Sandhill Preservation out of Iowa can send you some. I think it'd be hard to re-create that lobster tail thing they have going on... I have a stag right now but hoping for some pullets next year so I can make my own.
https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/poultry

 

[MysteryChicken]

Get you some pure ones. Sandhill Preservation out of Iowa can send you some. I think it'd be hard to re-create that lobster tail thing they have going on... I have a stag right now but hoping for some pullets next year so I can make my own.
https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/poultry

Not really hard for the tail. My black Sumatra, & Malays have the Lobster/Shrimp tail trait.

I wonder if cackle has some, I know that Ideal does.

 

[Chiduckn]

Not really hard for the tail. My black Sumatra, & Malays have the Lobster/Shrimp tail trait.

I wonder if cackle has some, I know that Ideal does.

Cubalaya tails are similar but different than the Sumatras. Like wider and kinda shaped different if that makes sense. I think I read that they did use Sumatras to make them though. I was gonna cross mine to my Sumatra hen but decided against it. Check out that sandhill preservation site though if you hadn't. Bunch of interesting birds and all kinds of cool/rare seeds if you keep a garden.

 

[cubalaya]

Sandhill and cackle may be options but out of 100 chicks you might get 10 worth keeping. I would say get some from a breeder but so many have bred for show to get that perfect feather that they are inbred to the extreme. Its a very small gene pool in the US. Few if any in Cuba. Germany has some decent ones but good luck getting eggs. You cant make cubalayas from scratch. You would have to have some pure cubalayas to work with.