The color of the plumage distinguishes the Dominiques from all other fowls with similar characteristics of form.
Dominiques are considered a rare breed and not every hatchery will carry them.
Despite its rarity today, several strains of Dominiques continue to exist.
Whenever I open the door to the hen house, I have to step aside because my liberated Dominiques charge from their coop like school children being dismissed from the classroom on a sunny spring day.
When you choose to raise Dominiques, you are making a significant contribution in preserving a rare and endangered breed that played an important role in our agricultural heritage.
An article I located in a reprint of the May, 1870 Agriculturalist, a popular farm magazine during the last century, gives this precise and insightful description of the Dominique.:
This is the oldest description I have found of the Dominique and I use it as my breeding standard.
I gave her the eggs when I returned and she hatched eight healthy Dominique chicks.
The eight chicks from the "miracle" eggs grew into four healthy pullets and four lusty cockerels and have become the foundation stock I'm using to build, my Dominique flock.
