Civil War Chicken Breed: Dominique

Let’s learn the story of the Dominique chicken, considered America’s original chicken breed. Explore their important role in the history of chicken breeds, the conservation efforts to save them, why homesteads should want them today, and much more

Historical Notes:
Two items deserve mention about the origin of the Dominique that did not make it on camera.
The word dominique in early history could be used to mean any cuckoo or barred chicken. As time went on, Dominique was used as a breed name for barred chickens with specific characteristics.

A possible origin story is a breed in Britain, the Scots Gray, perhaps came over with some of the pilgrims and with refinement and selective breeding these chickens evolved to become America’s first developed chicken breed, the Dominique.

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