Dominique Thread!

[Faraday40]

20 weeks

Mine is 19 weeks & 2 days.
...... waiting.....waiting.....waiting


However, I think mine will take longer. Her comb & waddles are not dark enough.

 

[confederatemule]

Is the red tint normal?

 

[WildCatRunWV]

I think it's called "bronzing". I think it is fairly common but not desired.

 

[EastNashChick]

I think it's called "bronzing". I think it is fairly common but not desired.

You should cull him. He will pass that on.

 

[centrarchid]

Is the red tint normal?

I do not call that bronzing. Bronzing is much fainter and more restricted. Bird is dark, almost hen like. I will bet he was not distinguishable as a male at hatch. By all appearances he appears to be a first generation hybrid between an American Dominique and something else. I am betting American Games where around when he was laid as an egg.

 

[confederatemule]

Actually he has been culled. I gave him to friend who wanted a large rooster. He is large. The catch is, I have to keep him till the friend moves and builds a new coop. It has been over a month, so fer. Looks like I'll be feedin him fer a long while. Oh well, he can't get to my hens.

The story on the rooster is; I was given 9 young roosters back in late May or June. The plan was to butcher them. They free ranged till they started fighting. At that point they were put in separate cages. We have killed two. We haven't killed any more cause we enjoy hearing them. Two look like White Leghorns, one looks like an Australorp, the rest look like RIR. the Leghorns have a slight red tint and the black bird has a red tint, also, if the sun is just right. The black bird is the largest of the bunch, but they are all large. These birds were hatched in an incubator and were said to be full blood. Who knows?.

Just thought I'd tell the story.

Mule

 

[Sylvester017]

Actually he has been culled. I gave him to friend who wanted a large rooster. He is large. The catch is, I have to keep him till the friend moves and builds a new coop. It has been over a month, so fer. Looks like I'll be feedin him fer a long while. Oh well, he can't get to my hens.

The story on the rooster is; I was given 9 young roosters back in late May or June. The plan was to butcher them. They free ranged till they started fighting. At that point they were put in separate cages. We have killed two. We haven't killed any more cause we enjoy hearing them. Two look like White Leghorns, one looks like an Australorp, the rest look like RIR. the Leghorns have a slight red tint and the black bird has a red tint, also, if the sun is just right. The black bird is the largest of the bunch, but they are all large. These birds were hatched in an incubator and were said to be full blood. Who knows?.

Just thought I'd tell the story.

Mule

My beautiful Black Silkie turned out some "red" feathers. After her molt we noticed the hot summer sun faded her beautiful shiny new black feather fluff to a bunch of ugly red-brown streaks. When we had a White Leghorn, dust baths in damp soil stained her beautiful glistening white feathers to dingy, dirty, yellowy-brown stains and only a molt returned her beautiful white again. See what your Dom roo feathers look like after his next molt before a brutal sun hits his body feathers to fade the black to red and notice what kind of soil conditions he uses to dust-bathe in to see if that is staining him. Just a thought because that's what happened to our birds.

 

[Faraday40]

We got hit with a lot of snow last weekend. My chickens are wimps & didn't bother setting foot outside for several days.
In fact, when I finally got my roo out, he simply jumped up onto the swingset to avoid getting cold feet!



On Tuesday by late afternoon some snow melted & we could see grass in spots. I was able to get the flock to step outside for some scratch. My smart pair (the Sebright & Dominique) took a short cut & simply flew over all the white stuff & landed in the tree next to me.


These two crack me up. The BFFs are always mirroring each other. I have about 10 shots in a row like the ones below. It's like when my kids see the camera, so they start making silly faces.

 

[Alaskan]

Great photos

 

[MeeMa Brown]

This week average 5 of 9 hens laying. ONE is my gentle "Eleanor" a Dominique, with the largest size, and a pinkish tan shell on her daily egg.