Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[saladin]

Many of my Wheatens in various breeds lose the breast coloring, as well as my silver Ameraucanas. I'd keep him, he's pretty clean colored. I have yet to produce a single bird without red shoulders regardless of hackle color.

Wish I had known this as I would have sent you the extra SDW that I just culled! crap!

 

[cubakid]

I am going to try one more year of duckwing females and males, I have 5 Pullets, two hens, and any number of cockerels I'd like to keep(probably one) plus the cock. The cock is very typey, and his sickles are long enough to touch the ground and drag.

 

[saladin]

Don't give up. If you don't get a stag with no red in the shoulders let me know and I will send you one.

 

[wood&feathers]

Well, cubalaya's pullet came through. She has had 3 of 5 hatch so far, though by my count they weren't due until tomorrow.



I think she was mostly being bred by the big dark BBR 3/4 cuba, 1/4 Thai cockerel

 

[wood&feathers]

As nervous as I was about a fall hatch, I am excited to have some "hedge on my bets". Yesterday we had a LARGE migrating redtail hawk swoop a 4 mo old pullet, and pinned her for an instant. That big cockerel ran at the hawk and as my husband dashed out the hawk was flying after the cockerel. When the dogs weighed in the hawk fled.

The pullet has one small puncture barely to the side of her crop. I swabbed on BluKote,getting it in as best I could, and she shows no ill effects.

 

[wood&feathers]

Closeup of chick color - BBR? Black?


Or something else?

 

[troyer]

Closeup of chick color - BBR? Black?


Or something else?

The chick on the right looks like it will be a black red.

 

[cubalaya]

i was going to breed my thai grade to the blacks to see if i would get black reds. i guess you will know before i do, lol.

 

[troyer]

If they get to be like this fellow, they will look pretty. I've often wondered how spangled/mottled would look on these, being he is as dark as he is?

 

[wood&feathers]

What worries me is if they are BBR, then they are all male, right? Females would be chipmunk or wheaten?