Dominique Thread!

[Amer]

I have Dominique bantams

 

[Amer]

Yesterday at 7:46 PM#4

AMERAUCANAS4REALOut Of The Brooder
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We have free range chickens. A Dominique bantam decided to hatch. We didn't notice she was not in the coop at night for 15 days or so. She was out sometimes during the day. I found out she was missing. It took four days of following her to find her nest. I found her nest and two days later, chicks! The remarkable thing is she was locked out of the coop for five days, she had to find her own food and water.

 

[Sylvester017]

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL
Bantams are amazing! Shoot -- CHICKENS are amazing! How many chicks did your bantam hatch? Any pics?

 

[Amer]

She hatched 7, sorry no pics

 

[Amer]

Plus she took in a Buckeye chick from another mother when it was a month old, because we sold its mother, but wanted to keep it.

 

[Amer]

Sorry about the numbers, I copied the post from another thread

 

[Sylvester017]

Your bantam sounds like an amazing momma. Is it cold where you live to have chicks this late in the year?
Noticed your name as AMERAUCANAS4REAL -- I love Amer's too but my SoCalif climate wasn't good for our Amer's and I lost our last one during last year's insufferable heatwave. That's my Blue Wheaten Amer at 5 months in my Avatar pic. We miss her sweet gentle personality but she managed to be w/ us for 3 yrs before we lost her.
We're zoned for only 5 hens/no roos. This past year we lost 5 birds so you can imagine how much cycling of new juveniles we went through to keep the number up to 5 hens. I had a perfect flock last year of 2 Silkies, 1 Ameraucana, and 1 Blue Breda. We lost the Ameraucana and Blue Breda to immunity complications brought on by the heatwave stress, but had a juvenile Cuckoo Breda we added to the 2 Silkies. Then we ordered 2 new Blue Breda juveniles and by 6 months old they both died (not a hardy breed -- wonderful birds but too rare gene pool). Then we lost one of the older Silkies to an ovarian tumor. OMG - we were down to just one Silkie and one Cuckoo Breda left and that's when we scrambled last minute in August to get 3 Dominique chicks in hopes of having some layers by next year. Silkies, Dom's, Breda, and Amer's are my favorite docile breeds to get along w/ each other. Dom's are the most active but are a gentle breed to have in our flock.

 

[Faraday40]

My Dom "Bubbles" is great with her humans, but not so gentle with her flock mates. I suppose it's because we have mostly orps who simply don't care about pecking order (unless it's food related). Bubbles is now one of the top hens with our fearless EE, Tyrion. Neither hen bullies much, but they can get pecky when they feel the need to remind others who's in charge. DS hatched a speckled sussex this spring & she also moved right up to the top. I heard that Barred Rocks can be bullies, but I went & hatched a penciled Rock anyway. She's pretty much at the bottom - even below my silkies. LOL

The moral of the story is: Chickens can't read, so they don't always act the way the books say they should.

 

[Amer]

Yes it is cold in my area. Good ol' Wisconsin.

 

[Faraday40]

Yes it is cold in my area. Good ol' Wisconsin.

I'm south of you (N. IL) & got snow this morning!!!!!