Dominique Thread!

[Alaskan]

A 2 year old hen that is one of my best overall females that I have produced to date. Very balanced throughout. View attachment 2167974View attachment 2167975 Color has been improving quickly over the last three years, better gray tones with good cuckoo barring. The male I believe was a cock when the picture was taken. I sold him to a Dominique breeder in the end of 2018. She took the picture around a year later.

I love that girl, that boy sure looks dark to me.

Is your line easy to sex at hatch?

 

[Delight in Dominiques]

Yes, I agree, color was not my biggest priority over the years and is still a little inconsistent. I never am too concerned with sexing chicks, more concerned with hatch rate and vigor.

 

[centrarchid]

Only one of my American Dominiques actually being used as a broody. Balance of chicks are hatched with incubator.

Yes, I agree, color was not my biggest priority over the years and is still a little inconsistent. I never am too concerned with sexing chicks, more concerned with hatch rate and vigor.

I am also letting down color slide at expense of hatch rate and vigor as well. If my chicks were run through a typical sexing procedure based on down, then mine would appear to have too few females. I am good with just looking at feet now.

 

[MommaHen2Many]

I have a backyard flock. I introduced a barred rock rooster a few years ago. So I have mixed breed hens which I am ok with. In my most recent batch of incubated eggs, the roo was not 100% BR (Its daddy was a BR the hen an EE). So if that roo is over hens who are BR, Copper Maran, Orpington & EE. ...will any of the 'how to sex a chick' even worth considering for these chicks?

 

[Sylvester017]

@Delight in Dominiques

GORGEOUS hen with beautiful silver coloring! I love her walking photo -- those Dom girlsl never stand still for very long, eh? LOL!

 

[Sylvester017]

Turned the girls loose in the dying garden beds -- they'll find plenty of bugs and they'll flatten the nuisance weeds for me!

Dominique hen 3 yrs old -- (her sister hiding in the vines behind her)

Cuckoo Breda (left) -- Dominique hens (center)

Little Partridge Silkie joining the fun

Got a garden bridge over the drainage channel between the Pomegranate trees

The old plank just wasn't working

A rogue Cantaloupe seed germinated next to the girls' sandbox/dustbath and the leaves are as big as the Dominiques!

 

[Sylvester017]

Another day of fun and lounging!

Oh joy! Fire season started early today in Southern California! I used to live in the area of this fire years ago but I got tired of mountain fires so close to my home and moved a couple miles away where I live now. My current property is a smaller piece of property but a lot better air quality for my hens!

 

[Faraday40]

Another day of fun and lounging!
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Oh joy! Fire season started early today in Southern California! I used to live in the area of this fire years ago but I got tired of mountain fires so close to my home and moved a couple miles away where I live now. My current property is a smaller piece of property but a lot better air quality for my hens!
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Love the pic of the Dom in the garden.

The pic of the smoke from the fire..... not so much.
That's gotta be so scary.

 

[Chickassan]

Hobo is queen of the yard now and as such is the first hen to check out this latest round of chicks
She does have one in there, half Faverolles so she's going to be an interesting bird.

 

[FransGran]

Our new Dominique, Maxine Wanda