Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[gallorojo]

Great looking bird, I hope the tail stays all black for you.

 

[cubalaya]

big black cubalaya pullet

 

[gallorojo]

Very nice !

 

[gallorojo]

The last few Cubalayas for this year are set to hatch here this weekend. So far it looks like I have whites, red pyles on wheaten and duckwing, wheaten, duckwing, blue wheaten and duckwing, silver wheaten and duckwing, blue, black, probably will be some brown reds, birchens, and blue variations of. No chicks with high tails or crow heads, but plenty with yellow, green, or blue legs. None that are slow feathered. Looks like a few promising ones!

 

[cubalaya]

glad that someone is trying to keep all the cubalaya colors. i guess jat and saladin have some in different colors too. i think i will reduce my flock down to the standard colors of white, black, and bb red with bb red the most in numbers. will keep my duckwings just because i like them but they are too variable and slow feathering. this will allow me to keep a few asils here plus our new breed cream legbars.

 

[gallorojo]

I am not interested in trying to keep or breed lots of colors. I did cross whites with blue duckwings, and whites with blue golden duckwings, and white with blue, so I am getting every possible color combination out now. My intention is to keep the best birds regardless of color this year. I intentionally crossed the strains and colors to "stir the pot" genetically, hoping for a few larger birds. I plan to make size, type, vigor, and temperament the focus the next few years, and egg size as well. It's fun to see all these colors but I don't plan to breed for any specific color at this point.

 

[gallorojo]

The other interesting observation is that my Goldens and silvers are no longer slow feathered! I think it's a slightly differs strain than what I previously had. Maybe Troyer can can add something??

 

[troyer]

The other interesting observation is that my Goldens and silvers are no longer slow feathered! I think it's a slightly differs strain than what I previously had. Maybe Troyer can can add something??

I culled out all the slow feathered ones. I possibly still have one or two pullets with the trait. Time will tell as they hatch out youngsters of their own. I don't have any males with the slow feathering trait that I know of.This one has it I'm thinking,


but I am not planning on ever letting any of her slow feathering offspring if she produces it, off the property.

 

[jeremy]

This isn't a Cubalaya, but I feel like I've seen similar colored birds here on this thread.

Wondering if anyone knows what this Olive Egger pullet will look like when mature? I've never grown out a bird with her pattern/color.

 

[troyer]

The last few Cubalayas for this year are set to hatch here this weekend. So far it looks like I have whites, red pyles on wheaten and duckwing, wheaten, duckwing, blue wheaten and duckwing, silver wheaten and duckwing, blue, black, probably will be some brown reds, birchens, and blue variations of. No chicks with high tails or crow heads, but plenty with yellow, green, or blue legs. None that are slow feathered. Looks like a few promising ones!

That's a lot of color variety! Very happy that you are enjoying them.
High tails and crow heads are becoming less and less as I continue breeding here. It also helps to have the experience and knowledge to select and breed away from those things. In some of the previous years I just didn't have that.
I still have a few hens with crow heads that I'm keeping around in case I have to do a repeat color breeding if the direction I've gone doesn't work out.
A hen with a short stout beak seems to make the most difference in the shortest time possible to get away from crow heads.

Someone told me that it is impossible to get solid black cocks with wheaten in the background/lineage.