Barred Dominique
A variety of the Dominique
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the Barred Dominique
The Dominique is recognised in only one colour: the cuckoo-barred 'hawk' pattern of soft, irregular slate-grey and white bars that vary in width and angle across each feather, giving a hazier, less sharply defined look than the Barred Plymouth Rock. Paired with the breed's defining rose comb (single-combed barred birds became Plymouth Rocks under the 1870s standards), the camouflaging barring helps conceal these hardy, frost-tolerant dual-purpose hens from predators while they forage.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 230
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus