Dominique Thread!

[duluthralphie]

My hatch was a bust AGAIN!! I only had one DOM hatch, A little boy.

I am changing roosters this week. I have one I was going to cull that grew into a nice looking young man.

 

[lazy gardener]

My Dom is 7.5 / almost 8 wks now.
dark color
dark wash on shanks/toes
black on a lot of the beak
has a small, flat comb, but I'm seeing some pink & little wattles. I don't remember Bubbles being pink this early. Do I have a male or an early bloomer?


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I vote pullet.

 

[Faraday40]

I vote pullet.

I really hope so. This one is pretty "iffy" By 8 wks I thought I'd be able to tell gender but that pink worries me.

Here was my girl Bubbles at about the same age:
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and another month later, she still looked the same:
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[Faraday40]

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Here she was at almost 9 wks

about 12 weeks
Her face was nice & pale, so I pretty much knew she was a pullet. She looked like this up until a couple weeks before laying.

 

[Alaskan]

My first lot of 2018 moving out to barn. Five are about 3 weeks old and seven are about 2 weeks old, plus a couple game chicks. Another batch of nine is in brooder with another 11 expected to hatch in next 48 hours and about eight to hatch a week later. Shooting for a 100 chicks from three hens with youngest at 3 years of age.

looks great!

I am drooling over that grass!

my place still has a pond 3/4 frozen and it snowed 2 nights last week.

 

[Alaskan]

My hatch was a bust AGAIN!! I only had one DOM hatch, A little boy.

I am changing roosters this week. I have one I was going to cull that grew into a nice looking young man.

eh... sorry about that. I hope the next hatch is better for ya.

I just sorted out my breeds last week... so I have a few weeks to go before the eggs are pure.

 

[duluthralphie]

eh... sorry about that. I hope the next hatch is better for ya.

I just sorted out my breeds last week... so I have a few weeks to go before the eggs are pure.

Can you pick out the Dom?

 

[Alaskan]

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a shy one huh? A bit smaller too.

 

[centrarchid]

Can you pick out the American Dominiques in this mess. Nine are American Doms. The balance are Missouri Doms and American Games.

 

[Faraday40]

Can you pick out the American Dominiques in this mess. Nine are American Doms. The balance are Missouri Doms and American Games.

What's the diff between Missouri & American Doms?