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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!

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...

@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...

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

@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...

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

@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...

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

@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...

Hi -- adorable little pic! If this is a pure Dom chick it might be a male. If you read up on Doms you'll notice that female babies have a dark streak going down the front of their tiny legs and toes plus the female white spot on female heads will be a tighter white spot while the male chicks...

@MenelausMontrose - such fun you are on! Whatever you do keep some pure Doms in the end. That roo is a gem :) Dom chicks (at least the standard size) are automatically friendly, outgoing, talkative, unafraid, people-friendly chicks from the start. If you want really friendly RIR chicks (or...

@MenelausMontrose - I'm not a breeder. But just curious why you would dilute a pure Dom w/a Rhode Island Red? There have been standard and bantam Dom breeders working for decades to retain Dom characteristics so just wondered what you're aiming for? Not a critique but wondered what you had...

@MiddleAmerican -- Love your gorgeous flock! The roo's are so very stately!

Not sure how interested you are in learning about Dominiques but I had the rare opportunity a decade ago to read a book by Mark A. Fields called "THE AMERICAN DOMINIQUE: A Treatise for the Fancier" which really helped me appreciate this gem of a chicken! Amazon sells the hardcover for $49.99...

After losing prolific egg-layer breeds to shorter lifespans we switched from popular egg-layer breeds to hens with reputations for less eggs, have broody tendency, and with sweeter temperaments -- tops for us after a dozen years of basckyarding are: DOMINIQUES BEARDED SILKIES BREDA...

@Winderdear That's what we love about Doms - they are ALL lap chickens!!! 3 JUVENILE PULLETS 6 YRS LATER OUR REMAINING DOM STILL JUMPING INTO DH's LAP

@Winderdear Doms grow so fast, don't they? We learned to enjoy our chicks early and it just wasn't long enough!!! Sweetest most friendly outgoing talkative breed we ever had. They were never afraid or skittish and always ran up to us from the first day we got them! !

We have a local pet and supply store that will order Doms if we ask for them. They will order from Privett Hatchery even though there is a closer hatchery located within our state. Spring is the best time for hatcheries to fill orders because that seems to be the time when birds breed and...

@ChickensComeHome2Roost Seems like hatcheries are just as anxious to get rid of their surplus chicks as breeders are -- whether customer wants substitution Barred Rocks or not! I mean, some people like their BRs but nothing compares to the overall positives of Doms once you've owned them...

@ChickensComeHome2Roost Dom hens are incredibly unique for their people-friendly personalities, as chicks unafraid of humans, talkative from chicks to adulthood, protective of the flock (ours chase after cats that don't belong in the yard), many breeds love to be lap chickens but Doms thrive...