Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[gallorojo]

Cubalaya bantam eggs. Chalk white nice size eggs!!

 

[troyer]

Awesome Cubalaya momma.

Looks like some wheatens under there.

100% hatch!!

What a mix! Are they all from the same pair?

 

[gallorojo]

8 of them are the white female pictured X white cockerel. 4 are out of the blue wheaten female X same white cockerel. So all chicks have same sire, the white. I'd think he must be wheaten/ wild type split with recessive white. As there are wheaten chicks and one wild type chick. Another batch of chicks is hatching now, those are the Yokohama looking white female X the blue golden duckwing male. I just set some eggs this week out of the old blue line hen X the white male, she didn't start laying well until very recently, but she is getting old.

 

[troyer]

Here is a 2 year old cock bird being used in making white bantams. He is an excellent example typewise of using a linebred Cubalaya hen and Sumatra rooster. The linebred Cubalaya hen (his mother) very strongly passed on her type to her offspring. His sire was a Sumatra, but you would hardly know from how he looks. His comb and spurs might give him away a bit, otherwise he looks like a decent to good Cubalaya.
The white in his tail did not come from the Sumatra side, so I guess it had to come from the Cubalaya side. In his first year he had no white in his tail, now he has a lot. I plan on keeping him to see if he'll have white in his tail after the next molt.

 

[gallorojo]

Nice looking bird !

I really like my bantams, the pullet just won't go broody! I believe I'm going to put some of her eggs under a surrogate momma. They are cool little birds, I hope to hatch some this season.

 

[troyer]

Here is a good example of what can change in a year. Same bird, just a year apart.

 

[gallorojo]

Troyer, large or bantam? I've never seen saddle growth like that in the large fowl, but the bantams show some indications they will have more longtail traits such as the enhanced saddles. Nice looking white!!

 

[troyer]

Troyer, large or bantam? I've never seen saddle growth like that in the large fowl, but the bantams show some indications they will have more longtail traits such as the enhanced saddles. Nice looking white!!

Largefowl, this one is the sire to the cockerel you have.

 

[gallorojo]

Interesting!! Will wait and see how the saddles develop on mine.

 

[troyer]

I almost can't wait to see how this cockerel will turn out after he molts this fall.