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  1. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    Fizzy is a sweetie ~ about 4 or 5 months as I see her blue eyes are turning the adult reddish-bay. And look at the telltale female black shading going down the front of her legs/toes & the black spot along the top of her beak also a female Dom trait. Is she your only Dom? Our blue-eyed Dom...
  2. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @Faraday40 ~ life is a bummer when time advances, eh? I pray you have the strength & will to endure. I'm 81 this year recuperating w/therapy from a broken humerous that required surgery & an arm sling for 9 months. My 91 yr old sister lost her husband last year, broke her arm & wrist TWICE &...
  3. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    Great that you can sell birds & have homes for the boys. As I recall you always kept a good-sized flock. Our ordinance only allows 5 hens/no roos. All we have left from the previous flock is Dominique "Dana" almost 8 & she's alpha over 5 Silkie hens which will be our last flock. I'm an...
  4. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    I'm thrilled for you ~ what is her name? But... Teehee! I would've added 2 or 3 😄 2017 Friendly pesty little sweeties that are unafraid outgoing chicks & friendly all thru their growing up time 👌 2018 Our one remaining Dom today ~ "Dana" 2025
  5. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    Beauties! So sad to lose so many! Were your girls lost during the day or nighttime? I lost a year-old pullet to heatstroke while she was laying an egg & a 2nd at over 2-yrs old also to heatstroke while laying an egg in 115 degree weather. I tried reviving her as she came out of the coop but she...
  6. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    :lau We tell ours apart by the different shapes of their combs, wattles, body shapes, personalities. One Dom juvenile had lighter more dominant white feathering, had uneven wattles, and never snuggled or roosted close to her other two sisters, and was the only chick that had pasty butt for a...
  7. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    Oh, I hope you find a roo. Do you have any hatcheries near for example like Cackle, Ideal, or Privett Hatcheries, etc, to have a juvenile for pickup. Or order a 16-20 week old shipped to you? The Dom roos are very regal looking. The summer is a bit late in the year for ordering birds from...
  8. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    So cute! As with all chickens they have different personalities. But as a whole the breed is outgoing, unafraid, people friendly, peppy, talkative chicks. Where other chick breeds are afraid of humans the Dom chicks immediately run up to a human peeping and curious to check out your fingers...
  9. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @Faraday40 -- Guiness World record but I still think Bubbles was Smarter! https://bc.ctvnews.ca/this-pet-chicken-from-b-c-is-now-a-guinness-world-record-holder-1.6950737
  10. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    If there's anyway to get a copy of "The American Dominique: A Treatise for the Fancier" by Mark Fields you will find a wealth of history and breed standards for Doms. Last year I bought an Amazon downloaded copy for $14 cuz the hard copy was too expensive. Old book websites of it are even more...
  11. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    So you are intending to breed your Doms as pure Doms? No cross-breeding? Wise to order from a private Dom breeder. I wish you were on this west coast rather than east coast cuz we LOVE Doms and we know how to select male from female chicks. Newly hatched females have a tighter smaller white...
  12. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    That makes sense that you were speaking of older birds. Yeah, by teenagers it's fairly easy to tell males from females. I was speaking of id'ing new Dom hatches :) Wish I was younger and in better health so I could get more Doms. Lovely funny good temperament birds that want to be our lap dogs!
  13. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    The extra wider white splashing on head and back of neck on Dom male chicks is a good indication it is a male but once in a great while a female has extra white splashing so also using the dark leg/toes method usually confirms female. Although male and female chicks have dark spots on their...
  14. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @BigBlueHen53 --Apparently different breeds of chicks are sexed in different ways -- Leghorn chicks by their little wings, Doms by the methods we already covered, some Hybrids the males are much lighter colored than females, some only are identified by vent sexing, etc etc. Knowing the breed of...
  15. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @BigBlueHen53 -- obviously you haven't read The American Dominique by Mark Fields!
  16. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @MenelausMontrose -- We got our standard-size Doms through our local feed store that ordered them from Privett Hatchery (New Mexico). I think Privett is cheaper than any of our in-state Calif hatcheries so the feed store uses Privett. All hatcheries to me are the same mass production...
  17. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @MenelausMontrose -- I'm not positive but I believe all cuckoo-pattern birds are auto-sexing like the Doms are.
  18. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @MenelausMontrose -- the first chick is very much male - lots of broad head spot splashing plus no dark streaks on front of legs or toes. Females definitely have a very visible dark streak down the front of both legs and tops of all toes. Your next chick head shot also appears to have wide...
  19. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @MenelausMontrose -- I'd love to see pics of your babies. Fun to see if we can auto-sex them early :)
  20. Sylvester017

    Dominique Thread!

    @MenelausMontrose -- These female Dom chicks are 16 days old. Notice the dark streaks going down the front of their legs and down the top of their toes. Females will also have a tighter white spot on their skulls, and they will have a black band on their beak tops close to the tip. Some of...
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