Dominique Thread!

[lazy gardener]

Interesting about the orange middle toe on that chick. My female Black sex links (EE x PBR) are solid black, and each one has a white middle toenail.

 

[lazy gardener]

Last weekend, my dtr's fiancee stopped in to pick up kids. He stood and watched the chickens for a while, asking general questions. It was obvious that he hadn't been exposed to poultry. He commented that they looked soft. So, I scooped up one of the Doms, and let him pat her. I then gave her a good facial and neck massage, and she leaned in, and closed her eyes, looked like she was in la-la land. He laughed at the way she went limp with her legs hanging down when I started massaging her.

 

[WendyF]

Cute!

 

[chickenlver2013]

Anyone happen to know where I can get some white Doms?

 

[Alaskan]

Anyone happen to know where I can get some white Doms?

I have never heard of white ones.

Delawares might be close....of course they have a single comb.

 

[Gardenlady2]

Never heard of a white Dom.....

 

[chickenlver2013]

Never heard of a white Dom.....

Google white Dominiques. Feather site has a picture of them on there.

 

[buffalogal]

There are indeed white Dominiques, I have some myself. (No, they are not for sale) In fact, the very first Dominique chick I ever hatched was white, which was pretty surprising to me at the time. There are records of white Dominiques popping up all the way back to the 20's. They are not a recognized color, and as such are considered culls or novelties, depending on how serious you are about your chickeneering.

Read more about them here: http://www.dominiquechicken.com/White_Dominiques.html

However, a breeder I know of whose line carries recessive white was incredibly generous sharing hatching eggs with several flocks across the country. While I doubt he would have deliberately used a bird carrying white in his breeding pens, (He raises them to butcher or culls them as baby chicks), still I suspect that within a few years, we will see them popping up here and there. Have patience.

 

[centrarchid]

The pullet I had was not proper white, rather a silver whitish with faint bars evident.

 

[buffalogal]

The ones I've had are always sparkling silver white. No bars, no specks, no spots, and no yellowing in the sunlight either.
This is from 1999: http://eieio.org/dom99.jpg
And to show off the non yellowing, this was this past winter: http://eieio.org/snacks.jpg