Dominique Thread!

[extraordinaryfowl]

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They had barring a reddish color in place of the black

were these gamefowl? A lot of folks when they speak of old fashioned Doms are refering to the gamefowl.

http://www.dominiquechicken.com/Dominique_Games.html

Here it is!

 

[zoellemae]

this is sweetie! i think she is a dominique but may be mixed with something else.

 

[centrarchid]

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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.

I am familiar with the dom "breed" of American game as I familiar with American games in general. Generally speaking, the dom form of the American game is not bred to be distinct from other games. First they differ from other games based simply on their having the sex-linked barring allele like American dominiques. Although the dom colored gene does not co-occur with the extended black allele in contrast with the American dominique which is subject of this thread. It is this latter fact that reason the dom games have barring overlaying the typical range of reds and browns of many American games.

 

[centrarchid]

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That something else likely had either a pea comb or some other non-single comb type.

 

[buffalogal]

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I'm aware of that; I was making sure the man calling the red barred birds "Doms" knew it too.
He did.

 

[buffalogal]

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Even if they're mixed, I always prefer the friendly birds too.

 

[kanolley]

OOOHHHH I'm so happy to have finally found a thread for my "Dominique" ---- my babies,

I love the breed, I have several different breeds but my choice to concentrate is the Domies ......

I've noticed posts on folks getting stock, I too would like to aquire a more purer bloodline of Dominique, I would like to show in the future, but more importantly, I want to get my babies more to the Standard requirements......

any and all advise is welcomed, I will post new pics ASAP, I work alot so when I get home I have to do chores..... you know ---- DOMINIQUES RULE

untill next time

 

[ChobeeChickenMommy]

So just when I thought my Dom eggs were all done & I was excited about my 5 new babies I decided to check to see if I could hear or see anything w/ my remaining 3 eggs inside the last one I checked was peeping at me from inside her shell!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I'm gonna set up my camera to make I don't miss anything while I'm sleeping tonight. I am in THE BEST mood ever right now. I actually got to watch 4 out of my 5 hatch, my hubby video'd the 1st one while I was at work this am, & I even got to help one of my 5 out & they are all doing great! YAY!! Now fingers crossed my 6th baby hatches out for me tonight!

Oh & it's official, my hubby says that I have to join "incubators anonymous" now! I'm addicted! hehehe... But hey I think 5 or 6 out of 8 that went into lockdown is pretty good for my first time ever!!

I'm such a proud mommy of my new baby DOMINIQUES!!
(The egg I heard the peeping from is the one on the right side of the 3 eggs in the middle that you can't see the X or O on)

 

[DraigAthar]

Wow, congrats! They are just the cutest.

Amy

 

[ChobeeChickenMommy]

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Thank you! #6 had to get help out around 12:30 last night but she is doing great & in the brooder now with her sister! YAY!!!