Chickens

As Iv mentioned before We have several types of Chickens . One type is my Wifes Bantams these are about the size of your hand and come white , what I call pyle , blue or dunn and standard red but are not fragile they are as robust as my games . We have noticed one of the little white hens have been missing so this morning I go out to let them out and she comes saliing out of no where clucking and scratching the ground . She has made her a nest in the wild and is sitting . I will have to find it because out there at night she is varmit bait . It was a pretty site there is a light snow on the ground and her being snow white .

This little hen is smart . Her nest is hid well and I even took some feed out this afternoon to see if she would hear the comotion and come out but she never moved she is sitting tight . If she makes it till they hatch and comes off with chicks I can catch her then . I hope they are not 1/2 Dominecker .

She came off with 4 little batam chicks about thumb size . 2 white 2 brown .

Sorry Psalms . . . you just cant choose the 1/2 Dominecker. But hey, she hatched her babes, and they will grow up into whatever chicken. Chicken is chicken no matter how it looks

This weekend I plan to cut my flock by half, as the freezer is getting low. I'm culling all but the largest domineckers. And yes, when on your plate it dosent matter what the breed.

I like the dominique's a fairly good dual purpose fowl, they replaced our barred's a few years back and stuck with them, the dominique seems to be a friendlier chicken over the barred maybe it's just me?

Our Dominecker Roosters are thuggs . 2 Brothers they spend the day mistreating the hens , picking at the dogs (through the fence) , treeing cats . The hens are good layers .

that was the similar problem with the barred, though it was with the hens, our dominique's seem to be more subtle, the only rooster we have left is the hamburg

I have never had the dominique's however I have had Buff orpingtons, games, Naked necks and the Legacy. We had GLW's once and the roosters were to mean to have around my kids. I was attacked about 10 times before I got rid of them. I don't tolerate man fighters around.

But as for them going broody we have a brood area, so when I find one that is sitting in a bad area I move them to the brood area eggs and all. It is fenced off, and even has a wire top on it so nothing gets to mom sitting on her eggs.

Maverick said:

I like the dominique's a fairly good dual purpose fowl, they replaced our barred's a few years back and stuck with them, the dominique seems to be a friendlier chicken over the barred maybe it's just me?

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If I have food there my best friends!

Any chicken is your friend as long as you have food. Hubby found that out one day when he had a slice of pizza.

Ours have known us since they were chicks, so they are pretty friendly, food or no food. Of course, they're always happier to see food.

I woke up yesterday to my Speed being dead. So I am now going to have to replace him. So very sad when I lose one like that we thought of him like a part of the family. But at least he is in a better place I guess now. Oh well there is always plenty of time to get some girls and breed little man to them and hatch the eggs out. This is what I think will be best.

So sorry to hear that.

Gazrok said:

So sorry to hear that.

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Thank you, It's like losing one of the family with speed gone. Like when we lost Smarty. She was something I will never get over, where Speed, I knew was just for breeding but Smarty, she was like losing a kid.

We are down to 4 chickens now, and they don't lay much anymore. Trying to get the wife to agree to culling them and getting new ones.... She just needs to separate livestock from pets in her head....

At that point they make good boilers for the pot. . .

My Daughter just sent Me a message that if a recipe calls for 3 large eggs it only takes 2 of Her Golden Commit eggs or Your cake taste like eggs .

Psalm7 said:

My Daughter just sent Me a message that if a recipe calls for 3 large eggs it only takes 2 of Her Golden Commit eggs or Your cake taste like eggs .

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Interesting. I thought because of their smaller size they would produce a smaller egg.

No they lay extra large brown eggs . Very gentle and calm .