Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[gallorojo]

It would surely call for white legs. If you have a great female that's not wheaten, I would use her with no reservations. The male offspring would still be show potential. I just hatched 2 pure wild type chicks this week, I'm excited to see how they turn out. I did want to add JE that your pullets may be part wheaten, if the chick down was yellow with a stripe or 2, they are part wheaten. Based on your pictures, I feel they are part wheaten. If the chick down was brown with black stripes, they are pure wild type.

 

[cubakid]

I agree he looks to be colored like the Coronation Sussex. Now somebody correct me if I am wrong, that is the Colombian pattern with the Lavender gene?

You are correct on the coronation genetics, however this bird is neither columbian, nor lavender. Really I don't know what it is, but in time I will know.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Thanks. I thought white legs is what it would be but thought I would ask. The pullet in question was a darker redish blonde when she hatched. But I just hatched a true wild type chick yesterday. The only one that hatched this color this year.

 

[RachaelS]

Thanks. I thought white legs is what it would be but thought I would ask. The pullet in question was a darker redish blonde when she hatched. But I just hatched a true wild type chick yesterday. The only one that hatched this color this year.

How do you know it is "wild type"?

 

[cubakid]

Brown, black and white chipmunk stripes. Evident as a chick

 

[Jungleexplorer]

This is a picture of the wild type chick.

 

[cubakid]

This is a picture of the wild type chick.

This to me seems like it is still e^wh/e+ because the chick is still yellow in the body, not the typical brown. Sometimes they can show more or less of the wild type patterning, this is consistent with the incomplete dominance in chicken genetics.

 

[cubakid]

Another oddball. Spotted with black, He's a strange indescribable color that consists of some grey tones mixed somewhat evenly with a brown. He seems to have the same color but more intense in the Pyle zones, but including the wing bay. When the wings are opened there are two tones to the secondaries. This shouldn't be consistent with a white cubalaya, he shows features of a bird other than EE or ER. Time will tell.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

This to me seems like it is still e^wh/e+ because the chick is still yellow in the body, not the typical brown. Sometimes they can show more or less of the wild type patterning, this is consistent with the incomplete dominance in chicken genetics.

All I know is that it is the only cuba chick I hatched this year with those markings. But I was out in my pen today, and I noticed some of my smaller pullets that are putting on wild type feathers. So that will give me five total, not including the little chick I post the picture of. None of the others that turned out with wild type markings looked like that chick when they hatched. I wonder what it will look like when it grows up. Three of the five pullets have white legs and two have blue legs.

When I say wild type. This is what I am talking about.


And when I say blue. I mean this.

 

[cubalaya]

never seen that color blue leg on a cubalaya yet. the nice wheaton hens on the ground below that bird. is one of them the wild type? the one that is only showing her head and not body.