Dominique Thread!

[centrarchid]

This of my Grandfather's feet near a trio of games photographed circa 1913. Stock I have now descended directly birds they had at that time. Line had already been in family for some time prior to that.

 

[Alaskan]

What color is that on the games? Almost looks blue.

Very awesome photo.

 

[centrarchid]

What color is that on the games? Almost looks blue.

Very awesome photo.

Hen in background I think wheaton. Although may be like picture below which may represent a recessive form of wheaton. I still have allele for recessive wheaton in about 1/2 dozen birds. Not really wheaton but interacts with other alleles to give similar results.

Foreground hen more like pictured below where male of same like bullstag pictured immediately below her.

Bullstag bleached by sun and bullstags east to distinguish from cock of same phenotype at same time of year.


Cock in picture I think is brown-breasted brown red or a variant on brown red where hens are not dark kind of like redquill although base color not dark.
Picture below like current cocks I think to be same color.

Dark allele that used to be in strain up until about 2008 was lost. That allele allowed for some actual redquill. Last carrier of that pictured below. She passed on in 2010.

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks for the photos.

 

[Sylvester017]

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That's what I thought too! He almost looks like a bird posing at the poultry show! Oldest pics I ever found online of Doms were from 1912. They were beautiful THEN and looks like they are reaching that beauty again NOW! Majestic fantastic breed.

 

[centrarchid]

Thanks for the photos.

I have infused some of the genetics from my games into one of my American Dominique lines to get harder feathers and better free-range performance. Now I am in the process of injecting the allele for white skin from a strain of American Game that is in part derived from Kentucky Doms. End result will look a lot more like American Doms prior to the infusion of of Black Java.

Eight years into project now with another 15 to 20 to go. Birds of this project are being called Missouri Dominiques.


This being done in parallel to my Voter Strain of American Dominiques. I have to keep stressing the efforts are not intermingled.

 

[Faraday40]

Loving these old photos!!!
I don't have any chicken related pics to share, but here are some that I thought were cool.

My Parents were born during the Depression & grew up in Paterson, NJ. (Poor suburb of New York) As city dwellers I never expected to see many animals. One grandpa lead a band & played trumpet in New York (during the big band era 1920s-50s). = Dad's side. My other grandpa worked in the textile industry & handled the giant weaving looms at the factory off the Passaic River. = Mom's side.

Anyway, my great aunt on my mom's side married a pilot. Sometime in the 1940s, they arranged for my mother to be flown out to South Dakota for a summer & live on his relatives' farm. What a treat! She loved all the animals & afterwards became pen pals with her cousins. That was the only time they met in person, but they wrote to each other for almost 70 years. When my mom passed away in 2015, I found these photos.

Here are some of Mom's childhood pics
She was an only child.

My Mom & Grandma



Her South.Dakota adventure:




My Mom & her cousin at the Lilly pond.

 

[rwm_2004]

ISO Dominique breeder in Texas. Anyone know of any? I'm down to my rooster and 1 hen and they are 5 years old.

 

[centrarchid]

ISO Dominique breeder in Texas. Anyone know of any? I'm down to my rooster and 1 hen and they are 5 years old.

What stock are your two remaining birds out of?

 

[rwm_2004]

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