October 7, 2024 • 14 mins
What if your backyard could help save a rare chicken breed from extinction? Join us on Chickens Every Day as we uncover the captivating world of the Cubalaya chicken, a stunning breed that combines the best of ornamental beauty and practical utility. With its roots tracing back to Cuba, this triple-purpose bird offers eggs, meat, and show-stopping charm, albeit with a leisurely maturation period. We'll highlight the importance of conservation efforts for this critically listed breed and guide you on finding these extraordinary birds to enrich your flock.
Beyond breeding, nurturing your chickens with healthy treats is crucial for their well-being. We promise to transform your understanding of poultry nutrition with expert tips from Jeff Maddox, exploring delectable yet affordable treat recipes like a yogurt-infused feed mix your chickens will adore. Discover the do's and don'ts of chicken snacks as we recommend nutritious options, such as black fly larvae and sprouted peas, while steering clear of harmful indulgences like cakes and cookies. Learn creative methods to keep your chickens cool and hydrated during those scorching summer days with refreshing watermelon and frozen fruit delights. Tune in to ensure your feathery companions are happy, healthy, and ready to flourish.
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Sylvie (00:02):
Are we ready, pawpaw?
Hello friends and welcome toChickens.
Every Day, a podcast with you,the backyard chicken enthusiast,
and mine.
Your host is my Pawpaw, Gary,Gary Vallery of CENLA Backyard
Chickens.
Here we have fun while sharingideas and learning how to care
for our foul-feathered friends.
Check out our videos at Cenlathat's C-E-N-L-A Backyard
(00:24):
Chickens on YouTube, tiktok andFacebook.
So, without further ado, let'sstart today's show.
Gary Vallery (00:34):
Hello friends, and welcome to the podcast.
Today we've got a couple ofthings to talk about.
We're going to do a breedprofile and I have found the
Cubalaya chicken that we'regoing to talk about today, and
if this is a chicken that you'venever heard of, join the club,
because I hadn't heard of themeither until I found them on the
conservancy livestockconservancy website, and they're
(00:54):
a pretty cool breed.
So we're going to get into that.
And we're also going to talkabout treats.
Everybody loves to give ourchickens treats and if you're,
you know, one of these addictedbackyard chicken keepers like I
am.
We like to give our chickenstreats and we like to come up
with different things, and I'mgoing to end the treat part with
telling you about a amazingtreat that you can give your
(01:14):
birds all the time and it's notgoing to do anything detrimental
to them, not going to be oversugar, over carb, anything like
that, but really, if you, if youthink about it, anything not
part of a chicken's regular dietcan fall under the category of
treats, and then you can breakthat into two varieties of
treats if you want healthy andnot so healthy treats.
(01:37):
In other words, you shouldnever feed your flock.
An unhealthy treat like cakesand cookies and overly seasoned
items.
Unhealthy treat like cakes andcookies and overly seasoned
items, old or doughy items.
That's just lots of carbs, it'sgoing to make them fat.
And unhealthy Things from thekitchen that you know are
unhealthy for you or your kids.
You really don't want to feedit to your chickens either.
Otherwise, table scraps aregreat to give them, but don't
(01:59):
give them anything that'sspoiled or has mold or anything
like that.
Again, if you wouldn't feed itto you or your children, you
don't want to feed it to yourchicken.
But there's tons of things thatwe can give our birds to eat as
treats, but just remember, wewant to keep that down to 10% of
their total diet a day.
So treats should really begiven toward the evening time,
(02:20):
when they've had plenty of timeto scratch around outside, if
you free range, or to eat plentyof their good chicken food that
you have for them, and that'swhen we keep the healthy treats
and we start with that.
Black fly, larvae or mealwormsare a type of healthy treat.
Scratch grain, limited crackedcorn and I say limited cracked
corn because corn does have alot of carbs Frouted peas and
(02:44):
beans are a great treat.
Fruit scraps healthy fruitscraps are a great treat.
Healthy garden greens,vegetables.
You can make your own flockcake.
I have a video at Send a Lot ofBackyard Chickens on YouTube
that you can see how to make aflock cake.
They're really great for thechickens.
A lot of fun to do.
Not as healthy treats, you know,kind of like an apple on a
(03:05):
stick, but that's always to do.
I have an apple core whichtakes the center part out of the
apples, which is the seeds,because apple seeds do have a
little bit of arsenic in them.
Or when the chickens digestthem, that's kind of.
The outcome is a little bit ofarsenic, not really enough that
it's going to kill your chickensor something like that.
But over time give them a lotof apples, it could make a
(03:26):
difference.
So people like me you know Ijust I like to do that but you
can hang an apple on a littlethin stick or you can hang it by
a little chain or something andlet them go after it.
It's really fun to watch.
I like to give my chickenswatermelon, especially in the
summer Louisiana summers rightnow we're having 100 plus degree
days it is just murder.
(03:48):
Most of the chickens are justhanging out under shade trees
and under the coops because theydon't want to get out in the
heat of the day, so they do mostof their action in the morning
and the evenings.
But I'll give them watermelonand cantaloupes and cucumbers.
I will also slice up grapes andblueberries and strawberries
and put them in ice trays fullof water, freeze it and then
give that to them and it is areally good helps hydrate them,
(04:11):
help cool their bodies down andthey get that treat as well.
But remember, don't overdo thesugar and things like that that
you want to consider when youthink about your birds.
But again, if you listen to muchof my podcast or seen my videos
, you know that I'm a real bigfan of jeff maddox.
Jeff owns a portrayal companyor he's president of it.
(04:32):
They are poultry nutritionspecialists.
I've talked with people overthere before.
They're really great abouthelping you out and Jeff was on
a podcast and I was listening tohim and he talked about a very
simple treat that's really,really great for your chickens.
They go after it, they love itand it's inexpensive to do and
(04:53):
you start off with chicken feed.
You know whatever good, healthyfeed, whether it's pellets or
mash or crumbles that you feedyour chickens.
That's what you want to startwith for the treat.
The secret here is is you getit wet and I mean good and wet
Now, not runny wet.
You know you don't want tooverdo it they still need to be
able to pick it up with theirbeaks.
(05:14):
But get it good and wet, mixthe water in there, stir it up
and then add to that some plainGreek yogurt.
No flavor additives, nothinglike that.
Plain Greek yogurt.
Generally I'll put two or threescoops of that whenever I've
had a couple of cups of mychicken feed that I mix with
water, two or three scoops of atablespoon and I'll mix the
(05:36):
Greek yogurt in it, bring it outthere to them and that good wet
texture that's in there.
They love it.
I mean they literally go nutsover this stuff and they will
eat every bit.
And chickens love to fill upright before bedtime and this is
one of the best things you canfill them up with.
It's got great probioticfeatures to it.
(05:57):
It takes good gut health andthe way gut health works with a
chicken it's not that you'readding particular bacteria so
much as you are, as you'remaking less room for the bad
bacteria to be able to grow.
So when you have more of thegood stuff, then you have less
room for the bad bacteria to beable to grow.
So when you have more of thegood stuff, then you have less
room for the bad stuff to grow.
And that's what we do withapple cider vinegar, that's what
(06:18):
we do with the yogurt.
Different things like that thatyou can do for the good gut
health of your chickens.
But I have tried this severaltimes and my girls really like
to go for it and I still do theother treats.
You know, know, don't get mewrong I have a lot of fun
watching them go after applesand or pick ice cubes apart to
get the bits and pieces of thefruit.
But but you, you have to dothose you know with with those
(06:41):
little bit of hold yourself backbecause you don't want to
overdo it with with yourchickens.
But this right here, feedingthem their regular feed with
water, especially in the summer,whenever hydration is so
important, and with these hotdays, and then adding that Greek
yogurt, plain Greek yogurt, noadditives to it, no flavors,
your chickens are really, reallygoing to thank you for it.
(07:01):
Give it a try and let me knowwhat your chickens had to say
about it.
I think you'll be very happy.
So we're going to talk about theCubali chicken, and that is
spelled C-U-B-A-L-A-Y-A.
They originate in Cuba, whichis where they get their name
from, and they're a crossbetween a Malay and a Sumatra
chicken, which were importedfrom the Philippines.
If you've ever heard of adual-purpose breed and we've all
(07:24):
heard of them well, cubalayasare a triple-purpose breed, or
at least that's what they'reconsidered, because they're
considered good for meat, eggsand they sport chicken.
However, in the United Statesthey're really looked at more as
a ornamental breed.
They're a beautiful chicken.
They have a peak home and aunique, long, lustrous lobster
tail that curves downward and itresembles a lobster claw.
(07:46):
Right now I'm looking at apicture of a rooster and a hen.
The rooster's colorings kind ofremind you of a brown leghorn,
but their head and their neck isreally really full and they
stand very tall with that peakon.
And then, on this particularrooster, the tail just keeps
following the contour of theback and then just sweeps down
(08:09):
its very long tail and it does.
It looks like a big lobsterclaw that's laying there on the
ground.
They're just a gorgeous lookingbird the female looking at her
at the end.
She's much more subdued incolor.
She has a dark red neck andmore of a beige type on her body
and her wings.
The tail does the same thing,but it's not as long as the
(08:30):
rooster, where the rooster'stail is flowing and dragging on
the ground.
The hen's is not on the ground.
She is still a reallygood-looking bird.
They're just really reallypretty birds all the way around
both of them.
When you get a chance, lookthem up and you'll see what I'm
talking about.
Around both of them.
When you get a chance, lookthem up and you'll see what I'm
(08:51):
talking about.
They were brought over here tothe US and accepted into the APA
Standard American PoultryAssociation Standard of
Perfection in 1939.
They were also exhibited at theInternational Poultry Show in
Cleveland, ohio that very sameyear.
They come in a variety ofcolors.
The colors that I show you areusually the more standard colors
, but the APA only recognizesthe white black and the black
(09:13):
breasted red, which is what Italked to you about a while ago.
They're not a huge chicken,they're a medium-sized bird.
The roosters weigh in somewherearound six pounds and the hens
about four.
They mature slowly okay, whichis one of the reasons they're
not as popular as what they oncewere here in the US.
They can actually take up tothree years to reach adulthood,
(09:33):
but they're capable ofreproducing six to seven months.
Cubalias are very majesticlooking and they seem to know it
just by the way they carrythemselves.
I mentioned to you earlier howthat rooster was just standing
very tall and proud, just theway he was holding himself up.
That is really really prettylooking to see that.
They're said to have a verygood quality meat, producing
(09:55):
around 125 to 175 small tomedium roundish tinted eggs a
year.
They love to forage for insects.
They do well in roomy backyardsand are best suited to more of
our warmer clients.
The hens tend to be a little onthe broody side and are
considered to be good moms, soif you're looking for a broody
hen, that's good.
(10:16):
The trait most favored in aCuban Malaya and I thought this
was really interesting is theirtameness with people.
Chicks will often eat out of ahuman's hand without ever having
previously been in contact witha human.
The downside to this, they say,is they don't really fear
predators the way that theyshould, and it's a well-known
(10:36):
problem with this particularbreed, but the cool part about
the fact that they just want tobe around people and they don't
have a natural fear of them.
So if you're looking for a lapchicken, this could definitely
probably fit your bill.
According to the LivestockConservancy, a distinctive trait
for the cubalias is a lack ofspurs, and this really got me
(10:57):
interested, especially if I wasthinking about having another
rooster out here, which would bea desirable trait, you know, if
you have a concern aboutsomeone getting attacked or you
have young children hangingaround.
However, when I started doingdigging deeper research in the
breed, I found that my pitchicken said that they have
spurs and they could havemultiple spurs.
(11:19):
Oklahoma State University,however, says that they do not.
I found a few other websitesstating that they can't have
anywhere from little, verylittle spurs to none, so it's
kind of looked like the spurthing is up and down depending
on the particular strain thatyou have.
I would really like to get oneof these roosters that did not
(11:39):
have a spur.
I just think that would bereally cool, because I do have
young grandchildren.
They come in standard and bantamsizes, which is good if you
have a small setup and you likeBantam.
Unfortunately for these birds,they're currently listed at
critical on the LivestockConservancy list.
So, if you're able to, this isa breed that we need to do
(12:01):
something about.
We need to do some help when wecan.
When searching where topurchase these chicks, I found
varieties at Cackle, hatcheryValley, hatchery Chickens for
Backyards, strongbirds.
They all said that they carrythem.
However, if when you click onthem, most of them were
currently out of stock.
So you might want to see if youcan look on Facebook or the
internet and see if you can finda breeder out there.
(12:22):
There's not a lot of them, butthere are some out there and,
considering the fact thatthey're on the critical list,
I'm sure if you find a breeder,they'll be happy to try to be
helpful with you.
In conclusion, about thisbeautiful animal, the cuba lie
is beautiful and exotic, withmany positive qualities that
make it a great choice forchicken keepers, and you ought
(12:43):
to think about considering toadd this special breed to your
flock.
I know I'm going to.
Earlier today I was looking andlooking and looking and I could
not find anybody that currentlyhad any, but I'm not going to
quit.
I'm going to actually getanother batch of chicks for the
fall, and I'm going to see if Ican add some cubelias in that.
(13:03):
I would love to get a roosterand a hen as well to do this.
I just think that would bereally cool, especially with
their disposition that they have, and then the fact that they
have little to no spurs would bea big plus.
So, anyway, I hope you guys haveenjoyed this episode of
Chickens Every Day.
Remember, you can always findmy videos at Send Live Backyard
Chickens Facebook, youtube,tiktok You'll find me on there.
(13:25):
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We'll always be nice andrespectful with one another on
this podcast.
So in the meantime, have agreat summer.
We'll talk with you guys againsoon.
Thanks a lot, bye-bye.
Sylvie (13:44):
That's all we have time for today.
I really hope you enjoyedlistening to the podcast.
Be sure to watch our videos.
So, on behalf of my pup, gary,and me, sylvie, thanks for
listening.
Are we ready, pawpaw?
Hello friends and welcome toChickens.
Every Day, a podcast with you,the backyard chicken enthusiast,
and mine.
Your host is my Pawpaw, Gary,Gary Vallery of CENLA Backyard
Chickens.
Here we have fun while sharingideas and learning how to care
for our foul-feathered friends.
Check out our videos at Cenlathat's C-E-N-L-A Backyard
(00:24):
Chickens on YouTube, tiktok andFacebook.
So, without further ado, let'sstart today's show.
Gary Vallery (00:34):
Hello friends, and welcome to the podcast.
Today we've got a couple ofthings to talk about.
We're going to do a breedprofile and I have found the
Cubalaya chicken that we'regoing to talk about today, and
if this is a chicken that you'venever heard of, join the club,
because I hadn't heard of themeither until I found them on the
conservancy livestockconservancy website, and they're
(00:54):
a pretty cool breed.
So we're going to get into that.
And we're also going to talkabout treats.
Everybody loves to give ourchickens treats and if you're,
you know, one of these addictedbackyard chicken keepers like I
am.
We like to give our chickenstreats and we like to come up
with different things, and I'mgoing to end the treat part with
telling you about a amazingtreat that you can give your
(01:14):
birds all the time and it's notgoing to do anything detrimental
to them, not going to be oversugar, over carb, anything like
that, but really, if you, if youthink about it, anything not
part of a chicken's regular dietcan fall under the category of
treats, and then you can breakthat into two varieties of
treats if you want healthy andnot so healthy treats.
(01:37):
In other words, you shouldnever feed your flock.
An unhealthy treat like cakesand cookies and overly seasoned
items.
Unhealthy treat like cakes andcookies and overly seasoned
items, old or doughy items.
That's just lots of carbs, it'sgoing to make them fat.
And unhealthy Things from thekitchen that you know are
unhealthy for you or your kids.
You really don't want to feedit to your chickens either.
Otherwise, table scraps aregreat to give them, but don't
(01:59):
give them anything that'sspoiled or has mold or anything
like that.
Again, if you wouldn't feed itto you or your children, you
don't want to feed it to yourchicken.
But there's tons of things thatwe can give our birds to eat as
treats, but just remember, wewant to keep that down to 10% of
their total diet a day.
So treats should really begiven toward the evening time,
(02:20):
when they've had plenty of timeto scratch around outside, if
you free range, or to eat plentyof their good chicken food that
you have for them, and that'swhen we keep the healthy treats
and we start with that.
Black fly, larvae or mealwormsare a type of healthy treat.
Scratch grain, limited crackedcorn and I say limited cracked
corn because corn does have alot of carbs Frouted peas and
(02:44):
beans are a great treat.
Fruit scraps healthy fruitscraps are a great treat.
Healthy garden greens,vegetables.
You can make your own flockcake.
I have a video at Send a Lot ofBackyard Chickens on YouTube
that you can see how to make aflock cake.
They're really great for thechickens.
A lot of fun to do.
Not as healthy treats, you know,kind of like an apple on a
(03:05):
stick, but that's always to do.
I have an apple core whichtakes the center part out of the
apples, which is the seeds,because apple seeds do have a
little bit of arsenic in them.
Or when the chickens digestthem, that's kind of.
The outcome is a little bit ofarsenic, not really enough that
it's going to kill your chickensor something like that.
But over time give them a lotof apples, it could make a
(03:26):
difference.
So people like me you know Ijust I like to do that but you
can hang an apple on a littlethin stick or you can hang it by
a little chain or something andlet them go after it.
It's really fun to watch.
I like to give my chickenswatermelon, especially in the
summer Louisiana summers rightnow we're having 100 plus degree
days it is just murder.
(03:48):
Most of the chickens are justhanging out under shade trees
and under the coops because theydon't want to get out in the
heat of the day, so they do mostof their action in the morning
and the evenings.
But I'll give them watermelonand cantaloupes and cucumbers.
I will also slice up grapes andblueberries and strawberries
and put them in ice trays fullof water, freeze it and then
give that to them and it is areally good helps hydrate them,
(04:11):
help cool their bodies down andthey get that treat as well.
But remember, don't overdo thesugar and things like that that
you want to consider when youthink about your birds.
But again, if you listen to muchof my podcast or seen my videos
, you know that I'm a real bigfan of jeff maddox.
Jeff owns a portrayal companyor he's president of it.
(04:32):
They are poultry nutritionspecialists.
I've talked with people overthere before.
They're really great abouthelping you out and Jeff was on
a podcast and I was listening tohim and he talked about a very
simple treat that's really,really great for your chickens.
They go after it, they love itand it's inexpensive to do and
(04:53):
you start off with chicken feed.
You know whatever good, healthyfeed, whether it's pellets or
mash or crumbles that you feedyour chickens.
That's what you want to startwith for the treat.
The secret here is is you getit wet and I mean good and wet
Now, not runny wet.
You know you don't want tooverdo it they still need to be
able to pick it up with theirbeaks.
(05:14):
But get it good and wet, mixthe water in there, stir it up
and then add to that some plainGreek yogurt.
No flavor additives, nothinglike that.
Plain Greek yogurt.
Generally I'll put two or threescoops of that whenever I've
had a couple of cups of mychicken feed that I mix with
water, two or three scoops of atablespoon and I'll mix the
(05:36):
Greek yogurt in it, bring it outthere to them and that good wet
texture that's in there.
They love it.
I mean they literally go nutsover this stuff and they will
eat every bit.
And chickens love to fill upright before bedtime and this is
one of the best things you canfill them up with.
It's got great probioticfeatures to it.
(05:57):
It takes good gut health andthe way gut health works with a
chicken it's not that you'readding particular bacteria so
much as you are, as you'remaking less room for the bad
bacteria to be able to grow.
So when you have more of thegood stuff, then you have less
room for the bad bacteria to beable to grow.
So when you have more of thegood stuff, then you have less
room for the bad stuff to grow.
And that's what we do withapple cider vinegar, that's what
(06:18):
we do with the yogurt.
Different things like that thatyou can do for the good gut
health of your chickens.
But I have tried this severaltimes and my girls really like
to go for it and I still do theother treats.
You know, know, don't get mewrong I have a lot of fun
watching them go after applesand or pick ice cubes apart to
get the bits and pieces of thefruit.
But but you, you have to dothose you know with with those
(06:41):
little bit of hold yourself backbecause you don't want to
overdo it with with yourchickens.
But this right here, feedingthem their regular feed with
water, especially in the summer,whenever hydration is so
important, and with these hotdays, and then adding that Greek
yogurt, plain Greek yogurt, noadditives to it, no flavors,
your chickens are really, reallygoing to thank you for it.
(07:01):
Give it a try and let me knowwhat your chickens had to say
about it.
I think you'll be very happy.
So we're going to talk about theCubali chicken, and that is
spelled C-U-B-A-L-A-Y-A.
They originate in Cuba, whichis where they get their name
from, and they're a crossbetween a Malay and a Sumatra
chicken, which were importedfrom the Philippines.
If you've ever heard of adual-purpose breed and we've all
(07:24):
heard of them well, cubalayasare a triple-purpose breed, or
at least that's what they'reconsidered, because they're
considered good for meat, eggsand they sport chicken.
However, in the United Statesthey're really looked at more as
a ornamental breed.
They're a beautiful chicken.
They have a peak home and aunique, long, lustrous lobster
tail that curves downward and itresembles a lobster claw.
(07:46):
Right now I'm looking at apicture of a rooster and a hen.
The rooster's colorings kind ofremind you of a brown leghorn,
but their head and their neck isreally really full and they
stand very tall with that peakon.
And then, on this particularrooster, the tail just keeps
following the contour of theback and then just sweeps down
(08:09):
its very long tail and it does.
It looks like a big lobsterclaw that's laying there on the
ground.
They're just a gorgeous lookingbird the female looking at her
at the end.
She's much more subdued incolor.
She has a dark red neck andmore of a beige type on her body
and her wings.
The tail does the same thing,but it's not as long as the
(08:30):
rooster, where the rooster'stail is flowing and dragging on
the ground.
The hen's is not on the ground.
She is still a reallygood-looking bird.
They're just really reallypretty birds all the way around
both of them.
When you get a chance, lookthem up and you'll see what I'm
talking about.
Around both of them.
When you get a chance, lookthem up and you'll see what I'm
(08:51):
talking about.
They were brought over here tothe US and accepted into the APA
Standard American PoultryAssociation Standard of
Perfection in 1939.
They were also exhibited at theInternational Poultry Show in
Cleveland, ohio that very sameyear.
They come in a variety ofcolors.
The colors that I show you areusually the more standard colors
, but the APA only recognizesthe white black and the black
(09:13):
breasted red, which is what Italked to you about a while ago.
They're not a huge chicken,they're a medium-sized bird.
The roosters weigh in somewherearound six pounds and the hens
about four.
They mature slowly okay, whichis one of the reasons they're
not as popular as what they oncewere here in the US.
They can actually take up tothree years to reach adulthood,
(09:33):
but they're capable ofreproducing six to seven months.
Cubalias are very majesticlooking and they seem to know it
just by the way they carrythemselves.
I mentioned to you earlier howthat rooster was just standing
very tall and proud, just theway he was holding himself up.
That is really really prettylooking to see that.
They're said to have a verygood quality meat, producing
(09:55):
around 125 to 175 small tomedium roundish tinted eggs a
year.
They love to forage for insects.
They do well in roomy backyardsand are best suited to more of
our warmer clients.
The hens tend to be a little onthe broody side and are
considered to be good moms, soif you're looking for a broody
hen, that's good.
(10:16):
The trait most favored in aCuban Malaya and I thought this
was really interesting is theirtameness with people.
Chicks will often eat out of ahuman's hand without ever having
previously been in contact witha human.
The downside to this, they say,is they don't really fear
predators the way that theyshould, and it's a well-known
(10:36):
problem with this particularbreed, but the cool part about
the fact that they just want tobe around people and they don't
have a natural fear of them.
So if you're looking for a lapchicken, this could definitely
probably fit your bill.
According to the LivestockConservancy, a distinctive trait
for the cubalias is a lack ofspurs, and this really got me
(10:57):
interested, especially if I wasthinking about having another
rooster out here, which would bea desirable trait, you know, if
you have a concern aboutsomeone getting attacked or you
have young children hangingaround.
However, when I started doingdigging deeper research in the
breed, I found that my pitchicken said that they have
spurs and they could havemultiple spurs.
(11:19):
Oklahoma State University,however, says that they do not.
I found a few other websitesstating that they can't have
anywhere from little, verylittle spurs to none, so it's
kind of looked like the spurthing is up and down depending
on the particular strain thatyou have.
I would really like to get oneof these roosters that did not
(11:39):
have a spur.
I just think that would bereally cool, because I do have
young grandchildren.
They come in standard and bantamsizes, which is good if you
have a small setup and you likeBantam.
Unfortunately for these birds,they're currently listed at
critical on the LivestockConservancy list.
So, if you're able to, this isa breed that we need to do
(12:01):
something about.
We need to do some help when wecan.
When searching where topurchase these chicks, I found
varieties at Cackle, hatcheryValley, hatchery Chickens for
Backyards, strongbirds.
They all said that they carrythem.
However, if when you click onthem, most of them were
currently out of stock.
So you might want to see if youcan look on Facebook or the
internet and see if you can finda breeder out there.
(12:22):
There's not a lot of them, butthere are some out there and,
considering the fact thatthey're on the critical list,
I'm sure if you find a breeder,they'll be happy to try to be
helpful with you.
In conclusion, about thisbeautiful animal, the cuba lie
is beautiful and exotic, withmany positive qualities that
make it a great choice forchicken keepers, and you ought
(12:43):
to think about considering toadd this special breed to your
flock.
I know I'm going to.
Earlier today I was looking andlooking and looking and I could
not find anybody that currentlyhad any, but I'm not going to
quit.
I'm going to actually getanother batch of chicks for the
fall, and I'm going to see if Ican add some cubelias in that.
(13:03):
I would love to get a roosterand a hen as well to do this.
I just think that would bereally cool, especially with
their disposition that they have, and then the fact that they
have little to no spurs would bea big plus.
So, anyway, I hope you guys haveenjoyed this episode of
Chickens Every Day.
Remember, you can always findmy videos at Send Live Backyard
Chickens Facebook, youtube,tiktok You'll find me on there.
(13:25):
Through there you can also getin contact with me.
If you have ideas for shows orpeople that you'd like to see me
, do it, listen to me, do aninterview with or questions
comments, as long as they'renice.
We'll always be nice andrespectful with one another on
this podcast.
So in the meantime, have agreat summer.
We'll talk with you guys againsoon.
Thanks a lot, bye-bye.
Sylvie (13:44):
That's all we have time for today.
I really hope you enjoyedlistening to the podcast.
Be sure to watch our videos.
So, on behalf of my pup, gary,and me, sylvie, thanks for
listening.
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