Dominique Thread!

[Alaskan]

As far as freezing eggs. . try a community roll out nest box where the eggs roll up against a roll of pipe insulation with a heat tape in the middle.

 

[centrarchid]

So far of 23 eggs started, 21 have hatched to give strong chicks. I may have figured out how to use incubators.

 

[duluthralphie]

So far of 23 eggs started, 21 have hatched to give strong chicks. I may have figured out how to use incubators.

Grats.

I wish I could.

 

[centrarchid]

Grats.

I wish I could.

You can do it too. Took me only 10 years of trying!

 

[duluthralphie]

I did it last year...but this year is altogether different.

 

[Faraday40]

I did a few test hatches and discovered some fertility issues. So when I loaded up the 3 classroom incubators, I added plenty of extras to make up for all the clears I experienced at home. Teachers usually have lower hatch rates anyway, so I set 4.5 doz eggs (expecting about 1/2 of them to hatch). I just finished candling them. Gulp! There are 42 developing eggs!!! I think I'm going to be sleeping out in the coop when DH notices all those chicks returning here.

 

[duluthralphie]

I did a few test hatches and discovered some fertility issues. So when I loaded up the 3 classroom incubators, I added plenty of extras to make up for all the clears I experienced at home. Teachers usually have lower hatch rates anyway, so I set 4.5 doz eggs (expecting about 1/2 of them to hatch). I just finished candling them. Gulp! There are 42 developing eggs!!! I think I'm going to be sleeping out in the coop when DH notices all those chicks returning here.

Spontaneous reproduction! The only reasonable answer to how all those chicks ended up in the coop.

 

[Scruzet]

I was told my barred rock was a Dominique, what do you guys think? And what gender?

 

[duluthralphie]

I was told my barred rock was a Dominique, what do you guys think? And what gender?

He is not a barred rock with that comb. BUT the white under the neck is not something I see on my Doms.

 

[Faraday40]

I would guess that bird is a Dominique or at least mostly Dominique. Although the comb is pink, it looks female in the feather, beak, and leg color.