Cubalaya Thread For Sharing Pics and Discussing Our Birds

[SwampPrincessChick]

Usually they are, there is the odd bantam that doesn't have the general intelligence to properly care for the chicks.

It seems as if almost all gamefowl are good at brooding and taking care of their chicks.

 

[cubalaya]

got 3 asil chicks and another hen laying a clutch, got 3 brazilian chicks, got 4 blue crushers chicks, and might get some ga pluckers hatched soon

hatched a black crusher and a white cubalaya. asil hen is sitting on 6 eggs

 

[troyer]

Bantam mother daughter pair.

 

[cubalaya]

i am letting my blue cubalayas go. only keeping white cubalaya from now on.

 

[troyer]

This is two bantam cockerels a month apart in age. Mothers are sisters and sire is the same male. They are from a khaki x dun breeding and are khaki colored themselves. The smaller one looks white in this picture, but he's just cleaner colored khaki than the bigger one.

The older cockerel.

 

[troyer]

Mottled bantam cockerel.

 

[troyer]

Three month old siblings. In my breeding program I select for a bit higher station than some breeders do. The reason being so that I have a more continuous downward flow from head to tip of tail, than a horizontal-ish downward flow. I like the the higher station look a little better as well.

 

[artMontague]

Three month old siblings. In my breeding program I select for a bit higher station than some breeders do. The reason being so that I have a more continuous downward flow from head to tip of tail, than a horizontal-ish downward flow. I like the the higher station look a little better as well. View attachment 3650147View attachment 3650148

Thank you Troyer, for that post. Your thinking on higher station is excellent. Now with lower, long tail, is the only way the bird can be balanced. I like this a lot. The Oriental Gamefowl: Malay, Shamo.. are balanced birds. I like the white. The black is very nice. I like it the best.

 

[troyer]

Not quite finished feathering in from the molt, hackle saddle and tail will still lengthen some.

 

[troyer]

Early 2023 hatched bantam pullet.
Both pictures are the same pullet.