Dominique Question

[bigspringshatchery]

Im thinking of getting a couple of hens to go with Dominique roo. I haven't seen much about the breed on here. Are they not a popular breed? Would they be worth trying to raise and sell some chicks and eggs for hatching. I got my RIRs to lay eating eggs.

 

[MandyH]

We raise them and they are excellent at foraging and being confined. They are super smart and are very tame. I sell a ton of haching eggs and chicks from these birds, they are egg laying machines. Get a few, you won't be dissapointed.

 

[bigspringshatchery]

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Ok thanks. If you don't mind me asking a out how much do you sell you hens for. So I'll know the guy ain't trying to rip me off. If the age matters around laying age.

 

[WallTenters]

The Dominique is awesome. Our hens started laying over a week ago, the RIRs hatched at the same time (and fed the same feeds) are still not even started. Meanwhile we have three hens laying a beautiful egg a day, with more of our hens getting that magical egg laying look in their eye.

Our Dominiques are also great foragers - we are hardly going through chicken food at all since we moved them out to the big coop where they free-roam the property for bugs and greens. I've found myself dumping their feeder out a couple of times because I was worried the food had gone stale and that's why they weren't eating it!