Dominique Thread!

[buffalogal]

exchange cross for cost. I may run all my post by you for spelling and grammar checks.

LOL, Honestly, I couldn't imagine what you were trying to say. However, it does look like we're thinking along the same line.

 

[centrarchid]

LOL, Honestly, I couldn't imagine what you were trying to say. However, it does look like we're thinking along the same line.

I made the crosses going both ways trying to see what was giving doms their color. More than extended black and sex linked barring to be sure.

 

[buffalogal]

I made the crosses going both ways trying to see what was giving doms their color. More than extended black and sex linked barring to be sure.

Any specific advice you'd like to share with Katz?

 

[cluck57]

I bought 6 Dominiques from McMurray this spring. 2 have very deformed feet. Has anyone else run into this or know whether this is a trait of the breed?

 

[centrarchid]

I bought 6 Dominiques from McMurray this spring. 2 have very deformed feet. Has anyone else run into this or know whether this is a trait of the breed?

More likely than not the deformed feet are a function of incubation conditions. I have had such when incubator stratified making lower levels cooler than optimal.

 

[centrarchid]

Any specific advice you'd like to share with Katz?

Only if poster shows continued interest. I like to fish before putting down a lot of effort. Also something learned by doing lots of teaching, make students help by thinking more about question.

 

[centrarchid]

Interesting thing to note with respect to hen rearing by American Dominique hens. Most of mine abandon chicks by 4 weeks. Additionally the hens like to roost up by time chicks are three weeks old. The chicks at that age can't fly more than 30" vertically if not scared. A hen roosting up for first time went up about 36" making chicks were going to roost alone on ground which will be a bit cool tonight at 60 F. To get around this I setup two offset sticks at about 9" vertical intervals below roost used by hen. She clucked and up they came as if they had done it a million times.

 

[Alaskan]

Do you have other breeds where the hens generally take care of the chicks for longer?

 

[centrarchid]

Do you have other breeds where the hens generally take care of the chicks for longer?

American Games keep them longer. Hens cluck five to seven weeks and I have had hens with larger broods stay with them through 12 weeks although clucking still stopped by seven weeks. Other differences noteworthy and probably significant with egg deposition and incubation.

 

[Alaskan]

The only broody I have had so far was a Cuckoo Marans, and she kept the chicks until they were close to full sized. But I don't remember how many weeks that was.

It was wonderful though, how she would keep all the grown chickens away from her almost grown chicks. I didn't have to worry about flock integration.