My Dominiques just started laying a few weeks ago. They acted like ladies with a severe case of PMS the few weeks prior, pecking me and such. They now since laying are the sweetest chickens I have. And they lay the most beautiful brown eggs. They are also my quietest chickens which is key as my...
I think the "dominicker" moniker came about as slang obviously. I personally enjoy referring to mine that way.
Here are my dominickers age 8 weeks. I believe there are a few old-time songs referring to dominickers as well from the 1920ish era when they were pretty popular.
Congratulations on the new Dominickers! I have to tell what my two 6 week old dom girls did. I put them in a chicken tractor with some 30 wk old seabrights who ignored them at first. Then the dominant seabright started slightly attacking the doms. The dominickers are already as big as the...
4 weeks. The neighborhood will not be happy if not girls lol! Of course I have 3 pullet seabrights and the dominant one tries to crow every morning. Oh well!!