Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[wood&feathers]

A cubalaya/Thai rooster from Jimmy. We really love this guy's personality, and he is going to be big.

 

[4hmom]

nice looking birds i would call that comb a walnut from the pic and i really like that cuba thai

 

[wood&feathers]

I've never seen a bird with this type comb - it doesn't hardly rise off his head.

 

[wood&feathers]

A couple more views of this little pullet.



Cockerel from same hatch:


It may look like stink eye, but he was making happy noises and full of treats, just got the beetle brow going on.

 

[4hmom]

yea i probably wouldnt know either except i aslo had some yokohamas

 

[troyer]

These boys and a white pullet were born in late June. The pyle was from an egg from Chris - he is huge, but his comb looks like a cushion or strawberry? The fellow behind him is a cubalaya/black jap grade.

Looks like a modified cushion/pea comb, but he is certainly not classified as a pea comb. If he has excellent type as he gets older you could breed him to a good pea combed hen and potentially produce some good pea combed offspring then get rid of him after you have chicks out of him, but I suppose he would also make good soup if you don't want to mess with cushion combs, as they can be difficult to get rid of, especially when the best offspring continue being the cushion combed ones.
Was his mother a blue hen?

 

[cubalaya]

they lookin good, barbara. you must be feeding them good. didn't i give you some asil eggs? did they hatch?

 

[wood&feathers]

Every egg you gave me hatched. Unfortunately I lost 2 chicks to a rat snake before I got him.

 

[wood&feathers]

I don't normally kill black rat snakes, but the broody in question is a black jap and she flogged the heck out of him with her spurs. I didn't think he would survive relo.

 

[Felix1]

Thanks for the input. How long does it take for the coloring to reach its final point?