Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[cubakid]

I have competitively bred wheaten old English bantams and sometimes some of the yellow chicks will look like a wild type BBRed as an adult. The difference is the breast color, often the wheaten bred birds will show a dark wheaten breast instead of the wild type salmon.

 

[troyer]

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.

I have several with legs as blue as those. Not yet sure what I'll end up doing with them, I don't really want to breed them back to the white legged ones, but I have several that have good cubalaya type. If they have excellent type I don't want to throw them out either.

 

[Penny Hen]

I have several with legs as blue as those. Not yet sure what I'll end up doing with them, I don't really want to breed them back to the white legged ones, but I have several that have good cubalaya type. If they have excellent type I don't want to throw them out either.

Check out these variants of Red Jungle Fowl. These are from Kong's Red Jungle Fowl. The ones he has with the darkest legs are from the Thai and Laos lines. I think this wild pattern is a type of partridge.

 

[Penny Hen]

Now look at these Grey Jungle Fowl and some hybrids. I think what you have going on in your Cubalayas is that both the heritage of the grey and the red jungle fowl have come out. The Greys have the white/light quill like your Cubalaya girls do.


These two are half GJF and half Phoenix.

These are full Grey Jungle Fowl

 

[gallorojo]

All domestic chickens have some grey jungle fowl blood, and most probably have some green jungle fowl blood as well. The grey is where yellow shanks and the silver coloration come from. That's been recently proven. The green jungle fowl feature prominently in the ancestry of all the longtails, long crowers, and to some extent the various Asian game breeds. There are people I trust who have done work crossing the various jungle fowl, and the evidence points to heavy doses of green JF blood in all the long tails, long crowers, etc. The Cubalayas have far more green JF blood than a typical domestic chicken, but less than a true long tail or long crower. I don't think the Cubalayas have all that much Grey JF blood, no more than any other domestic breed, and, in my opinion, probably less.

 

[Penny Hen]

All domestic chickens have some grey jungle fowl blood, and most probably have some green jungle fowl blood as well. The grey is where yellow shanks and the silver coloration come from. That's been recently proven. The green jungle fowl feature prominently in the ancestry of all the longtails, long crowers, and to some extent the various Asian game breeds. There are people I trust who have done work crossing the various jungle fowl, and the evidence points to heavy doses of green JF blood in all the long tails, long crowers, etc. The Cubalayas have far more green JF blood than a typical domestic chicken, but less than a true long tail or long crower. I don't think the Cubalayas have all that much Grey JF blood, no more than any other domestic breed, and, in my opinion, probably less.

I didn't know that about the Green Jungle Fowl. Cool! A new chicken to look up!

 

[wood&feathers]

One of my Asil/cubalaya crosses came out with the dark wild coloration. She has slate legs and pearl eyes. More impressive is one of her brothers - a white cockerel with a lovely low, curled under tail and the whitest skin I've ever seen. If it weren't for his pearl eyes I would worry he was albino! I may have been looking to work toward black with the black asil hens, but this boy looks NICE. I know, gotta download the pictures...

 

[wood&feathers]

so here are a few pictures:

Extremely pale probable cockerel, white cuba cock over black Kentucky mutt asil





The brood, 7 chicks


Three of the whites are pure cubalaya. The wild type chick is probably from the asil hen who has yellow feet. The pale white boy is from the asil hen with white feet.

 

[wood&feathers]

Compared to his siblings this white boy is sparsely feathered - his torso is nearly naked, he's all wing and just sprouted his tail. This batch is a month old.

 

[cubalaya]

see what i mean about whiteXblack making white?