 Six-month-old cockerel, center | |
| Conservation status | |
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| Other names |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Use | Dual-purpose, eggs and meat |
| Traits | |
| Weight |
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| Skin color | yellow |
| Egg color | brown |
| Comb type | rose |
| Classification | |
| APA | American[4] |
| ABA | rose comb, clean legged[5]: 53 |
| EE | recognised[6] |
| PCGB | rare soft feather: heavy[7] |
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The Dominique is an American breed of chicken, characterized by black-and-white barred plumage and a rose comb. It is considered to be the oldest American chicken breed,[8]: 121 and is thought to derive from birds brought to America by colonists from southern England. It was well known by about 1750, and by the mid-nineteenth century was widely distributed in the eastern United States.[9]: 429 [5]: 53 It is a dual-purpose breed, but is kept principally for its brown eggs.[9]: 429 It became an endangered breed in the twentieth century, but numbers have since recovered.[2]
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