Dominique Thread!

[Sylvester017]

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.

Love your dedication to your Dom projects. I don't know that I'd want to get rid of the soft Dom feathers for harder feathers since the early settlers loved the feathers for beds, blankets, and pillows and is one of the things I love about about Doms - their soft feathers. But by the same token I imagine the harder feathering would define a better U-back on the hens. Getting back the white skin would be nice. I've never been a fan of yellow in ANY breed. Thank you for working on perfecting Doms and the project birds when so many of us are unable to due to lack of space, zoning, or time!

 

[centrarchid]

Love your dedication to your Dom projects.  I don't know that I'd want to get rid of the soft Dom feathers for harder feathers since the early settlers loved the feathers for beds, blankets, and pillows and is one of the things I love about about Doms - their soft feathers.  But by the same token I imagine the harder feathering would define a better U-back on the hens.  Getting back the white skin would be nice.  I've never been a fan of yellow in ANY breed.  Thank you for working on perfecting Doms and the project birds when so many of us are unable to due to lack of space, zoning, or time! 

The hard feathers appears to be only with those involved with flight feathers. These birds still fluffy on the body.

 

[centrarchid]

Ideal poultry

Look for different blood.

 

[Sylvester017]

@Faraday40 My family had tons of old photos of people as far back as 1915 even my Mom forgot who they were! My sis didn't want them and I took them all and put them on computer with an online backup service before the old photo paper degraded. They all have that old-photo yellowed look to them! centrarchid's old Dom photos are really priceless!

Correction - Jeff8482's Dom photos and centrarchid's game photos.

 

[Sylvester017]

The hard feathers appears to be only with those involved with flight feathers. These birds still fluffy on the body.

Cool -- I like that!

 

[rwm_2004]

That's why I'm posting liking for breeders

 

[centrarchid]

That's why I'm posting liking for breeders

I have nothing beyond broodfowl now because just did a down-sizing. A hatchery strain worth considering is Cackle. Also a couple parties here are breeding for real. One is in Colorado I think. Keep plugging for them here.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have nothing beyond broodfowl now because just did a down-sizing. A hatchery strain worth considering is Cackle. Also a couple parties here are breeding for real. One is in Colorado I think. Keep plugging for them here.

I have mine, but some here did not like Duane Urch's line. I happen to like them. But the cost to ship them is high, like 50 bucks as I recall, last time I mailed some.

 

[EastNashChick]

Love your dedication to your Dom projects.  I don't know that I'd want to get rid of the soft Dom feathers for harder feathers since the early settlers loved the feathers for beds, blankets, and pillows and is one of the things I love about about Doms - their soft feathers.  But by the same token I imagine the harder feathering would define a better U-back on the hens.  Getting back the white skin would be nice.  I've never been a fan of yellow in ANY breed.  Thank you for working on perfecting Doms and the project birds when so many of us are unable to due to lack of space, zoning, or time! 

A bit off topic, but you just reminded me they did indeed use Dom feathers for pillows and beds. Now that I've actually plucked a bird using boiling water I remember the smell was awful. Do you happen to know what was done to the feathers to get the smell out? Strange question, I know, but I have got to know for some reason.

 

[Faraday40]

A bit off topic, but you just reminded me they did indeed use Dom feathers for pillows and beds. Now that I've actually plucked a bird using boiling water I remember the smell was awful. Do you happen to know what was done to the feathers to get the smell out? Strange question, I know, but I have got to know for some reason.

Yeah, that "wet chicken" smell is pretty unique.

I dyed a few feathers for a craft. I had to wash them with dish soap to remove the dirt & oils before coloring them. I used the microwave to boil the food coloring, water, & feathers, and there was a significant smell. My son came home from school & asked "WHAT are we having for dinner?!"

Of course after the feathers dried, I didn't notice any odor.