SC - Speaking of Birthdays

[Marian Rosenberg]

Perhaps the following will help you:

The Dominique breed developed from the fowl introduced during the early 
settlement of New England. These were of the type predominating in the south 
of England and from which the Sussex and Dorking descended. 

It is from the website:  http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/   
by the Department of Animal Science - Oklahoma State University.  It covers 
many kinds of fowl.  Click on Chickens, then on the breed you want to know 
more about.

Rayne

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 Marcus Loidolt here:
  Many of you know that I've been researching REALLY OLD breeds (known 
 before 1600)  
*snipped*   
   I have always heard and understood that Dominiques/Domikers/Barred 
 Rocks, were a uniquely AMERICAN breed, developed here and not seen 
 elsewhere. 
  Problem, I see in Christane de Pisan's 15th cen. book of hours a winter 
 scene of a farmyard (Nat.Trust Waddesdon Manor MS6 Cat. 8f26.) that 
 shows a flock of birds with a VERY distinct pattern!! There are a flock 
 of hens and a cock barred black and white looking for all the world like 
 a flock o 'Doms'!
   Problem#2 I have also read in Platina's 'Honest Indulgence'( a 14th 
 cen. book on food and health) a citation for a B&W barred bird called a 
 'Albegensian', "though now called a Dominican due to the fact that this 
 Order keeps these birds in all their communities due to their hardiness 
 and steady laying"
   I DON'T want to upset peoples ideas and conceptions, but somethings 
 amiss here, yes? 
  Are there other B&W barred breeds this could be? Would these not be 
 possible ancestors of our 'Doms'?
  Just asking for ideas, NOT FLAMES!!!
 
 Marcus, ever in search of medieval chickens!!
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