Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[troyer]

RachaelS; This one looked just like that in color when it was that age.

 

[4hmom]

nice golden

 

[cubakid]

This is my oldest white cockerel. He is very lean, but has the best shape compared to the 15° tail angles that I mostly have. His comb is awful, but at this point I'm ignoring it. I think I want to bring the point were the back and tail join, up to get less of a sloped back. The tail is horizontal but the back line breaks because of the steepness of his back. Let me know why you guys think, and ask questions if you have them.
Zach

 

[cubakid]

March hatched

 

[troyer]

This is my oldest white cockerel. He is very lean, but has the best shape compared to the 15° tail angles that I mostly have. His comb is awful, but at this point I'm ignoring it. I think I want to bring the point were the back and tail join, up to get less of a sloped back. The tail is horizontal but the back line breaks because of the steepness of his back. Let me know why you guys think, and ask questions if you have them.
Zach

His tail as it is looks good for 4 months. He looks similar to some of Zook's whites he used to have. If the tail would "drop off" he would also look better, that is something that I will cull very hard for this season.
Does he have a yokohama-ish look or is it just me? I have had to fight the high tails here too, but I think I'll have a good selection this year. The chicks are still young but they look good to me.
How do you expect to get the slope of their backs up to where you want it?
Do you know where the large comb is coming from?

 

[cubakid]

He is a Zook bird, and I get the Yokohama comment a lot. I have several with decent backs but the tail has to be lowered when the back is closer to horizontal, I plan on getting rid of any that are overboard sloped, an using the ones with the lowest tails to breed with the flatter backed birds. The wonky combs can be explained by Chris, he's the expert on the line but essentially it is from the outcrossing to bring back the whites. Similar lines run between most of our whites.
Zach

 

[fowlsessed]

I love the elongated look he has to him.

 

[4hmom]

nice bird, does he always carry his wings that low or is it just the pic.

 

[cubakid]

I think his wings are too low, but they look even worse in this picture.

 

[4hmom]

i agree that they are too low in the pic but they dont conceal the hawks, so it still fits the standard description