Dominique Thread!

[texaschickmom]

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Very good description and photos. Thanks for posting.

 

[Gallusfarm]

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I'd say you have a female there. Please let us know what it turns out to be

 

[Gallusfarm]

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Congrats. Great video.

 

[ChobeeChickenMommy]

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Congrats. Great video.

Thank you! I am so excited! I have wanted a few Doms for a while now & I can't wait to see how many actually hatch!!

 

[texaschickmom]

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I'd say you have a female there. Please let us know what it turns out to be

I sure hope you're right! I will keep you posted. I have since hatched 4 more and will be taking pictures this weekend of them.

 

[bugsaroo]

Can't wait for the breeding season to start. Just got back from a 500 mile trip to purchase some pullets from Fred Farthings flock in sourthern Missouri. Got my roos from William Post in New York. Should have a pullet line and a cockerel line! Hopefully I can supply all the 4H kids around here with some birds that will place for them! By the way, my favorite roo is called Graham and my favorite pullet is Cracker. Hope I get lots of Crumbs!

 

[Gallusfarm]

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Very cool. Great to see so many folks getting quality Doms these days. Good luck! These are both awesome lines.

 

[cochunk]

I was saying goodnight to the hens last night, and i put stella our dominique on my lap, and she just sat there and slept for a good 5 minutes, the little noises see made when so adorable.

 

[buffalogal]

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I was looking for that post Gallus! I remember that thread very well because less than a month after that I saw "Red Doms" in cages in the back of some guy's truck on their way to the auction. He was getting gas, and actually, I saw his partially tarped goat cage first, and wondered what he was hauling. (I'm impossibly curious like that, but little and harmless looking, so I get away with it...)

It was chickens in smaller cages pushed up behind the cab. Several colors including crele and one that i thought was dirty white but turned out to be a very pale lemon barred and at least three "red" barred birds that mostly looked like the birds in that guy's pictures. I couldn't really make out the comb, it was very late in the afternoon, and the birds were hunkered down, but he referred to them as "Doms". He said something about green leg this and hatch that, and I knew he was telling me the lines, but I'm not fluent in Game chicken talk so he could have just as well been speaking German. Just to be sure, I asked him about whether they were the Dominigue that people raise for eggs and take to poultry shows and he smiled and told me in no uncertain terms "No Ma'am, these are Game." I told him I thought it was nice he'd loaded them where they would be out of the wind and wished him good luck with the bidders.

 

[extraordinaryfowl]

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I was looking for that post Gallus! I remember that thread very well because less than a month after that I saw "Red Doms" in cages in the back of some guy's truck on their way to the auction. He was getting gas, and actually, I saw his partially tarped goat cage first, and wondered what he was hauling. (I'm impossibly curious like that, but little and harmless looking, so I get away with it...)

It was chickens in smaller cages pushed up behind the cab. Several colors including crele and one that i thought was dirty white but turned out to be a very pale lemon barred and at least three "red" barred birds that mostly looked like the birds in that guy's pictures. I couldn't really make out the comb, it was very late in the afternoon, and the birds were hunkered down, but he referred to them as "Doms". He said something about green leg this and hatch that, and I knew he was telling me the lines, but I'm not fluent in Game chicken talk so he could have just as well been speaking German. Just to be sure, I asked him about whether they were the Dominigue that people raise for eggs and take to poultry shows and he smiled and told me in no uncertain terms "No Ma'am, these are Game." I told him I thought it was nice he'd loaded them where they would be out of the wind and wished him good luck with the bidders.

There is a game breed called the Dominique, different from the Dominique that is the topic of this thread. Someone may have posted a link with info about it earlier, I forget.