I think I got both those photos from the heritage thread. Neither are my own, I think I posted that, and as far as I can tell they both look like very nice hens.
Dominique???
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Did by chance you get this picture from the Dominique thread or the Heritage Large Fowl thread ?
That is a line of Dominique that I have been working on and adding a little more game back into them...
Chris
Chris09,
You indicate above introducing game into a dominique line. I am doing the same with mine. What does the F1 cross look like?
Did by chance you get this picture from the Dominique thread or the Heritage Large Fowl thread ?
That is a line of Dominique that I have been working on and adding a little more game back into them...
Chris
Chris09,
You indicate above introducing game into a dominique line. I am doing the same with mine. What does the F1 cross look like?
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I used a American game Rooster over a Dominique Hen (the hen in that picture).
The offspring comes out Sex-linked (when using a Dom hen). The cockerels are Dom. pattern and pullets are Black.
I culled out all the pullets and held on to one cockerel that had good type and coloring with a fare to good comb. This F1 has a fairly high stanchion and somewhat game in attitude.
I plan to cross this F1 back to his Dam and 2 other Dominique hens and if everything go's right I should have a good amount of F2 /Dominique chicks in the spring.
Chris
I used a American game Rooster over a Dominique Hen (the hen in that picture).
The offspring comes out Sex-linked (when using a Dom hen). The cockerels are Dom. pattern and pullets are Black.
I culled out all the pullets and held on to one cockerel that had good type and coloring with a fare to good comb. This F1 has a fairly high stanchion and somewhat game in attitude.
I plan to cross this F1 back to his Dam and 2 other Dominique hens and if everything go's right I should have a good amount of F2 /Dominique chicks in the spring.
Chris
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Chris,
We are addressing the introduction of game from different directions. My scenario has two American game roosters of different stocks, each bred to same set of 10 hens producing two cohorts. I am keeping female F1's and breeding to quality dom males. Flock to be closed with resulting backcross. I am trying to conserve female chromosome (W) in flock. I am looking forward to what black hens crossed back into pure doms will throw.
Did you rear the F1's along side pure dominiques? I will be monitoring growth to see how growth curves compare. First effort of this comparing American games to American doms shows they start out at same weight and end up with doms slightly heavier but doms get to adult weight much faster. Game strain used cocks out at about 6 pounds and dom strain at 7 pounds. Games much easier to weigh, pure doms do not stand still.
We are addressing the introduction of game from different directions. My scenario has two American game roosters of different stocks, each bred to same set of 10 hens producing two cohorts. I am keeping female F1's and breeding to quality dom males. Flock to be closed with resulting backcross. I am trying to conserve female chromosome (W) in flock. I am looking forward to what black hens crossed back into pure doms will throw.
Did you rear the F1's along side pure dominiques? I will be monitoring growth to see how growth curves compare. First effort of this comparing American games to American doms shows they start out at same weight and end up with doms slightly heavier but doms get to adult weight much faster. Game strain used cocks out at about 6 pounds and dom strain at 7 pounds. Games much easier to weigh, pure doms do not stand still.
Yep, definitely not a Dominique or a hen, but a really nice bird anyway.
I can't tell the breed of it--probably a cross--but the coloring to me looks like it might be Columbian, if that helps any.
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