Dominique Thread!

[lazy gardener]

Jharper: What other breeds of chickens do you have? Do You have a rooster? I'm curious what a EE x Dominique would produce in terms of egg color and if a EE roo over a Dom hen would produce a sex linked bird, and what the comb would be like. I got 3 EE pullets this spring, and love them. They started laying at 16.5 weeks. Unfortunately my Doms all ended up being roosters and have since gone to the freezer. Will try Doms again in the spring. Loved the ones I had.

Do you find that your Dominiques are more aggressive than your EE?

 

[lazy gardener]

Jharper: What other breeds of chickens do you have? Do You have a rooster? I'm curious what a EE x Dominique would produce in terms of egg color and if a EE roo over a Dom hen would produce a sex linked bird, and what the comb would be like. I got 3 EE pullets this spring, and love them. They started laying at 16.5 weeks. Unfortunately my Doms all ended up being roosters and have since gone to the freezer. Will try Doms again in the spring. Loved the ones I had.

Do you find that your Dominiques are more aggressive than your EE?

 

[DraigAthar]

Pretty much any non-white and non-barred rooster over a Dom hen will give you black sex-links. And the blue egg gene is dominant, so a roo that hatched out of a blue egg will produce pullets that will lay blue eggs. Since Doms lay brown eggs, the blue and brown together will give you an olive egg.

 

[Jharper]

Jharper:  What other breeds of chickens do you have?  Do You have a rooster?  I'm curious what a EE x Dominique would produce in terms of egg color and if a EE roo over a Dom hen would produce a sex linked bird, and what the comb would be like.  I got 3 EE pullets this spring, and love them.  They started laying at 16.5 weeks.  Unfortunately my Doms all ended up being roosters and have since gone to the freezer.  Will try Doms again in the spring.  Loved the ones I had.

Do you find that your Dominiques are more aggressive than your EE?

I'm actually about to put some EE/Dominique eggs in re incubator in a few days. Ohh, and yes. She is more aggressive than my EEs. My big ole rooster Pee-Wee is a big baby, too.

He is going through a hard molt, too. Haha poor thang. LOL!
I have 5 silkies.
2 bearded hens
1 non bearded rooster(Beautiful I may say)
1 paint rooster. (Beautiful I may say)
1 3 1/2 month old paint pullet
1 Dominique
1HRIR
1PRIR
1 black Cochin bantam
1 blue Cochin bantam
2 lemon blue OEGB
1 German spitzahuben
1 EE rooster
1 BA
And then 9 juveniles and 4 chicks that I am getting rid of.

 

[graybeard]

What would I get if I put a breed EE roo over a Dom hen? I'm really starting to like the little guy. He is getting blue tail feathers at 14 weeks.

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[centrarchid]

What would I get if I put a breed EE roo over a Dom hen? I'm really starting to like the little guy. He is getting blue tail feathers at 14 weeks.


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Black pullets and cockerels with respect to barring that look similar to Dominique hens. Cockerels in particular will have other colors bleed through. All will be extended black underneath. Pullets will hatch with black only on top of head but often with lots of white elsewhere while cockerels will look like Dominique pullets at hatch.

You will also notice differences in feather growth rate on wings and tail. Faster growth of your crosses feathers will make so barring pattern is not as distinct (aka smokey) on the cockerels. Other differences will also be evident in head and bill shape if your EE's have similar skull structure to my games.

 

[domfarm]

I lost my best hen yesterday. She fell in a stock tank and drown. Was this a just a freak accident or is this a common problem I have never heard of it happening. occasionally we will get a mouse or a chipmunk drown but never herd of a chicken drowning in a stock tank before. She is cleaned and in the fridge we will be having chicken dinner this weekend so not a total loss but why is it always the best ones that insist on getting them selves killed.

 

[Alaskan]

That must have been a freak accident, totally odd.

My sister's chickens free range, and she has stock tanks, she hasn't ever lost one in the stock tanks.

 

[Alaskan]

I know I have asked before.....

But there is still no one on here that has personal experience with the Dominique from Urch/Turnland?

 

[Lacy Blues]

I lost my best hen yesterday. She fell in a stock tank and drown. Was this a just a freak accident or is this a common problem I have never heard of it happening. occasionally we will get a mouse or a chipmunk drown but never herd of a chicken drowning in a stock tank before. She is cleaned and in the fridge we will be having chicken dinner this weekend so not a total loss but why is it always the best ones that insist on getting them selves killed.

Perhaps you could get a couple of floats that go alongside a boat and secure them to a piece of wire fencing. The fence would rest below the water line so your horses could drink and if another bird falls in, it should be able to get out (unless its a chick).