What on earth???

[Southernbelle]

The Cochins will have feathered legs, the game birds should not. OEGB come in SO many color varieties! You probably won't know for sure what color variety they are until they have their adut feathers since a lot of the chicks look alike. EEs are not the only chicks that look like chipmunks when they're hatched. I know that Black-Breasted Red OEGB have that chipmunk look as chicks and if they were EE's, they'd have poofy feathered cheeks. Cubalaya's are a type of game bird.

Can you call or email the breeder and ask what color varieties he raises? Maybe he can explain better what you bought.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Cubalaya chicks are a very light yellow color, not dark brown. They're a wheaten based black breasted red (pullets are cinnamon wheaten), nothing like what you are familar with in the Old English game breed or layers.

 

[MissAnnieFrannie]

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Well, 2 of the chicks do have very light yellow fluff, and the feathers are coming in an odd kind of brownish red with white specks....???

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Well, 2 of the chicks do have very light yellow fluff, and the feathers are coming in an odd kind of brownish red with white specks....???

Could be them.

If they stay a light tan'ish color, they'll be pullets. If they get darker, they'll be stags (cockerels).

 

[MissAnnieFrannie]

ick. lol. I need to find some pics of a cockeral and pullet....you wouldnt happen to have any would you? I googled it but came up with such variation not sure which one is right...

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Mine are standard, there are some photos of bantams on Cackle's website:

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/cubalaya.htm

Pay no attention to their BBR colored ones listed at the top. Those are not correct.

bad, bad, bad...

The wheaten ones below the BBR are correctly colored.

 

[MissAnnieFrannie]

hmm...


Well, this is interesting. Just to be clear, did you say the pics of the chicks of the BBR are incorrect? Those pics are almost exactly what my darker chicks look like, but my lighter ones look like the wheatens. Either way, the feathers that are coming in all look like the wheaten, but no black in them at all like on the roos....unless those may come in later, or the feathers may change....?


Sheesh! The guessing game is only fin when it is someone else

EDIT: I saw the parents of the chicks, and they are definitely the cubalayas. The roos of the two color variations just look so similar to me! I am leaning more towards BBR, but the females looked so much like the wheaten....ick!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Yes, their BBR is incorrect. I do not know why they bred them to echo the old english game coloration but it is wrong, very wrong. Plus there is a lot of predominate white showing in the earlobe, which is also very bad.

 

[MissAnnieFrannie]

I googled more BBR...still cant decide. The roo looked just like one pic I found of BBRC (would that be right abbreviation?) but the females look VERY wheaten. *sigh*

 

[TriciaHowe]

http://feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/Cuba/BRKCuba.html

Here is some info for you....