Dominique Thread!

[Alaskan]

I shouldn't answer for him.... But I will toss in my two cents...

I love the outlines of his Missouri Dominiques! In my opinion, the games have taken out that overly fluffy Barred Rock kind of look that is in too many Dominiques, and replaced it with a proper Dominique outline.

It kills me that he doesn't ship eggs... And I don't know anyone that lives close to him... I really like the looks of his birds! Stellar!

 

[centrarchid]

Centrarchid I am curious what type of games you used to cross into your dom line? What was the reasoning for the experiment? I have crele games of smallish size that fare very well free ranging 24/7. The only care we provide them is a roosting bar under an awning which they use mainly to escape rain. I have often wondered what offspring they would create with a dom hen. My doms are ok free ranging and getting enough to eat but their skills in predator evadement are sadly lacking.

My American Doms do not have game in them. The are >87% Voter with balance that might have some Voter but still all American Dominique.


Crossing Crele colored gamecock with American Dominique will be homozygous for barred and heterozygous for extended black. Pullets will appear proper colored and cockerels may or may not have foreign color bleed through shoulder area. Type will be intermediate but do not be surprised if young birds put on muscle mass faster than pure doms. For me the egg production of first generation cross is as least as good as that of pure games although my game line produces eggs better than most non-hatchery line games. Flight performance of hybrids not all that good since hybrids tend to be so heavy. Still marginally better than pure American Dominiques.

 

[centrarchid]

The Missouri Dominiques do have game in them and that varies between 75% and 25% game.

 

[centrarchid]

Games line I used is of my families origin and best classified as American Game with minimal apparent Oriental influence. If an educated cocker where guess what they are the answer would something with a lot of old time Hatch ancestry with a little Mug mixed in some birds.

 

[Alaskan]

What is "a little Mug"?

 

[centrarchid]

Mug is another strain of American Game that used to be mostly brown red or brown-breasted brown red. Hens often look like hen below.

Many if not most hens darker.

 

[Alaskan]

Thank you!

 

[JediJinx]

I agree - very nice. My doms are too rounded and fluffy underneath although I think this must be an asset to their wintering ability.

 

[JediJinx]

Thank you! Hens are brown breasted brown, the cocks are whatever this is called (I say crele but they are a mix I think). I have no idea what they are I got them at an auction as babies with their "mother" who is colored like a cream legbar.

 

[centrarchid]

Only the hen with chicks appears to be a game and she carries the silver allele.