Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[cubakid]

Some say yes others say no. I don't beleive he has them anymore.

 

[saladin]

Danny sold his last Cubalayas about 10 years ago to a fellow in AL. At least that is what Danny told me way back then.

 

[tigercreek]

Thanks to you both. Thought I would ask because I remembered seeing his name in the thread and there is a chance I could chase him down at a Fla. show next week-end. ...stan

 

[cubakid]

Never hurts to ask... He may have a couple or point you in thier direction.

 

[tigercreek]

Never hurts to ask... He may have a couple or point you in thier direction.

I will ask if I get an opportunity, but I imagine he will be pretty busy. I may have multiple sources lined up all ready, and I don't have a lot of room for them right now. I can grow a few out, cull heavily and maybe do some pairing up. I am excited to get started and hope to be hatching my own in the next year or so....stan

 

[cubakid]

From what I hear, Terry Britt has some cubalayas left. This is from someone that talked to home about four weeks ago. I would like to get in contact with him before our PPBA show here in CA, since he is judging. Maybe he'll have something. Plus I believe Sam was going to ask to get a bird of two for breeding from him for new blood from his own line.

 

[tigercreek]

I was, am, hoping to find someone in the southeast to touch base with. As a beginner to this breed, I am really looking for info about the birds and different lines as much as anything. Not sure I want to have to ship birds when I am not confident that I know enough about the lines to know what to expect to work in my situation. I do want to start with as good a bird as I can locate, but I am not sure yet what that line is. ..........thanks for the tip though. ........stan

 

[saladin]

There are a few of us that keep one or more lines. Sam keeps at least two and maybe more. I have collected several different lines (8) and mixed them together.

Obviously, I'm not one of the believers in the theory espoused by other concerning the separation of lines.

 

[tigercreek]

There are a few of us that keep one or more lines. Sam keeps at least two and maybe more. I have collected several different lines (8) and mixed them together.

Obviously, I'm not one of the believers in the theory espoused by other concerning the separation of lines.

I may have not made my position very clear. I am a proponet of mixing lines, particullary when a breed has such a small genetic pool to start out with. What I don't want to do is get a bird or birds from a line that starts out with faults that are hard to breed out. I am not that experienced of a breeder, and I am not yet in a position where I can put a large number of birds on the ground. I know that an inexperienced breeder can ruin a bird in just a few generations, so I would like to at least have a running start with birds of a type that fit my situation. Hopefully I'll be able to at least maintain the good qualities if I don't have to try to go too far or too often outside of a lines set traits. Seems to me that when you go crossing lines you run the risk of ending up with multiple bad traits as much as you do good traits. That is fine, as long as you know the difference, and how to select the next generations to set the good ones. I'm not yet confident enough in my eye to think I am ready to do that. .....stan

 

[saladin]

The faults most often encountered in Cubalayas are:

1. Underweight/undersized (which is why so many of us have crossed strains and graded on the side)
2. White in the tails of the males (very difficult to get out)
3. Breast in BBR males show red or are laced (also very difficult to get out unless you have a 'smut' wheaten female; which does the trick fast)
4. White in earlobes
5. Bluish legs in the GDW/SDWs
6. Females to light in coloration
7. Females with beaks to long (seldom ever happens in the males)
8. White in the flights of the females (these are great breeders for highly colored males: hackles that shade to golden)

Did I cover it all boys?