Dominique Thread!

[JediJinx]

Looks like a Wyandotte mixed with PBR.

 

[Sylvester017]

Thank you! I just put an ad up. Hoping some one will come get him.

So sorry you got duped. Someone will come get him for their dinner table.

 

[Flaisure]

So sorry you got duped.  Someone will come get him for their dinner table.

A lot of people are saying its a pullet. I'm so confused lol.

 

[Flaisure]

Here's a couple from today

 

[cupofJoelene]

I'm not super experienced by any means, but I'd say it's a Dom pullet before I'd venture into a mixed cockerel... I'm curious to know what about it is screaming definite cockerel to any more experienced keepers.

 

[Sylvester017]

A lot of people are saying its a pullet. I'm so confused lol.

Well, you are always going to get a lot of opinions on discussion threads. I was a bit surprised to hear cockerel guesses only because most barred or cuckoo cockerels are paler in color than pullets because the silver barring is wider in cockerel feathers making them appear much lighter in color than the pullets. Your bird just looks too dark to be a cockerel but give her/him time to either crow or lay an egg for sure. It would be a shame to send the bird to someone's dinner table before you know its sex.

 

[Flaisure]

Well, you are always going to get a lot of opinions on discussion threads.  I was a bit surprised to hear cockerel guesses only because most barred or cuckoo cockerels are paler in color than pullets because the silver barring is wider in cockerel feathers making them appear much lighter in color than the pullets.  Your bird just looks too dark to be a cockerel but give her/him time to either crow or lay an egg for sure.  It would be a shame to send the bird to someone's dinner table before you know its sex.

Thank you so much! Yeah I crowed 2 times one morning, and that's why I was curious. I did read that dominant pullets or hens can crow. My aunt has tones of chickens and she said a lot of her hens crow. I haven't heard it since but I really hope it's not a cockerel. Lol I want some eggs

 

[centrarchid]

Here's a couple from today

This is not a guess. Bird is not pure dom, has at least one allele for extended black, is heterozygous for sex-linked barring making males and females indistinguishable based on barring pattern / overall colpration, has a rose comb possibly interacting with a little pea comb and is male. Saddle feathers already outside the range of variation for female dom or even dom cross.


Note all the foreign color.

 

[lazy gardener]

Did you see this bird in question crow? Am I seeing brown bleed in the feathers around neck and base of tail? If so, I'm putting my money on it being a cross breed and a male.

 

[Flaisure]

Did you see this bird in question crow?  Am I seeing brown bleed in the feathers around neck and base of tail?  If so, I'm putting my money on it being a cross breed and a male.

The brown is just the light reflecting. It's not the color of the chick. No I did not see it crown but all my others are pullets.
No brown except a tiny bit on the head. Here's a pic