Dominique Thread!

[duluthralphie]

So ..... basically ...... genetics can be a cra*p shoot, eh? LOL!

I love my Dominiques so much that if they had NO COMB (like my Breda) I'd still love them to pieces! My two Dom girls since Sept have been through Bumblefoot, Dry Pox, Molt (which their feathers haven't even completely grown back yet) and these two girls are laying fools all through winter! We've been fortifying them with extra protein, raw meat/fat, vitamins and supplements because of the taxing on their bodily nutrition for all that going on! Their eggs have been getting bigger too -- from their original 1.75 to 2-oz pullet eggs to 2.25-oz hen eggs. Can't say enough good about this breed! Friendly to boot!

To this point, I will show you a picture of my toads comb.

This comb was the result of a single comb mother and a cushion comb father...According to the charts it should not happen, but it did.

 

[Alaskan]

So ..... basically ...... genetics can be a cra*p shoot, eh? LOL!

Actually, not at all. Just that the comb shape has multiple factors in play.

To this point, I will show you a picture of my toads comb.
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This comb was the result of a single comb mother and a cushion comb father...According to the charts it should not happen, but it did.

But... that is not surprising, that is what should happen.

A cushion comb results from 1 Rose Comb gene and 1 Pea comb gene.

Single comb is 2 blanks.

Cross the cushion comb with a single comb and 50% of the chicks will have rose combs (big meaty ones since they are heterozygous) and 50% will have peacombs (again, big meaty ones since they again are heterozygous).

But there are other genetics in play that adjust the number of points, size of points, amount of smoothness, hollow in the middle of the comb, etc.

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah... kind of floored.... what chart says it is odd to get a rose comb from a cushion crossed to single?

That chart is wrong.

 

[duluthralphie]

Actually, not at all. Just that the comb shape has multiple factors in play.



But... that is not surprising, that is what should happen.

A cushion comb results from 1 Rose Comb gene and 1 Pea comb gene.

Single comb is 2 blanks.

Cross the cushion comb with a single comb and 50% of the chicks will have rose combs (big meaty ones since they are heterozygous) and 50% will have peacombs (again, big meaty ones since they again are heterozygous).

But there are other genetics in play that adjust the number of points, size of points, amount of smoothness, hollow in the middle of the comb, etc.

I saw a different article that said the out come would be always cushion combs,, obviously it was wrong,,,

 

[Alaskan]

I saw a different article that said the out come would be always cushion combs,, obviously it was wrong,,,

Totally wrong.

Impossible actually when breeding cushion to single.

Same with walnut combs.

Walnut combs and cushion combs are BOTH one Rose Comb and one Pea Comb gene. But there are different modifiers that make the comb walnut verses cushion.

 

[Alaskan]

I actually see a bunch of totally wrong comb info out there.

Like a pea comb labeled a rose comb.



Not sure why it is so hard to get correct comb genetics info.

 

[Sylvester017]

My Dominique winter laying fools! I wasn't really expecting any winter eggs since no other breeds I've had ever layed through the coldest part of winter.

 

[Chickassan]

Tell your girls to speak with Hobo, she's still on hiatus.

My Dominique winter laying fools! I wasn't really expecting any winter eggs since no other breeds I've had ever layed through the coldest part of winter.
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[Sylvester017]

Tell your girls to speak with Hobo, she's still on hiatus.

Teehee!!! Winters for us don't get below freezing so my girls never got the message that it's supposed to be winter here in sunny SoCalif LOL! We had an 80 degree day today and I spent time prepping one of my raised garden beds for spring planting! Girls were none too happy being locked out of the raised garden beds they've been enjoying all winter long!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Domino was being unusually agreeable and wasn't trying to attack me so I got some good pictures of him.