What the chicks of a Araucana and a Dominique look like and lay, worked out from both breeds' standards.
A Araucana hen crossed with a Dominique rooster gives you what keepers call a first-generation (F1) cross. Every pullet should lay green eggs (some may be blue or olive): both sides pass the blue gene. Most chicks (25%) get a walnut comb. Most chicks (50%) are barred. Expect a medium bird, a good layer, calm, the average of the two parents.
Preset to a Araucana hen and a Dominique rooster. Change either side to see how the blue gene and the brown coat move the shell colour.
He never lays, so his blue gene is read from his mother's eggs.
Probably Blue (possibly Green): 50–100% blue-based; otherwise White.
Brown shade shifts with a hen's age, diet and stress, so identical genes still lay a little differently. Speckling and bloom are cosmetic and not modelled.
| Trait | Araucana hen | Dominique rooster | Chicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comb type | Pea | Rose | Walnut 25% · Pea 25%, Rose 25%, Single 25% |
| Barring | Not barred | Barred | Barred 50% · Not barred 50%assumes the sire carries not barred, so it could be 0%; a hatch or a known genotype can confirm (uncertain) |
| Fibromelanosis | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| Skin color | Yellow | Yellow | Yellow |
| Leg color | Willow | Yellow | varies: polygenic, parents differ |
Barring and silver are carried on the Z chromosome, so which parent is which changes the chicks.
| Trait | Dominique hen | Araucana rooster | Chicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comb type | Rose | Pea | Walnut 25% · Pea 25%, Rose 25%, Single 25% |
| Barring | Barred | Not barred | Barred 50% · Not barred 50%sex-linked: ♂ 100% barred, ♀ 0% barred |
| Fibromelanosis | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| Skin color | Yellow | Yellow | Yellow |
| Leg color | Yellow | Willow | varies: polygenic, parents differ |
♂♀ This direction is sex-linked too: barring.
A Dominique hen crossed with a Araucana rooster gives you what keepers call a first-generation (F1) cross. Every pullet should lay green eggs (some may be blue or olive): both sides pass the blue gene. Most chicks (25%) get a walnut comb. Barring is sex-linked in this direction: the cockerels hatch barred and the pullets do not, so the chicks can be sexed on hatch day. Expect a medium bird, a good layer, calm, the average of the two parents.
| Trait | Araucana | Dominique | Chicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frame height | medium | medium | medium |
| Egg production | fair layer | good layer | good layer |
| Broodiness | often broody | sometimes broody | often broody |
| Docility | easygoing | calm | calm |
| Bone density | medium | medium | medium |
| Foraging skill | good forager | good forager | good forager |
| Cold hardiness | fairly hardy | very cold-hardy | cold-hardy |
Chicks land near the average of the two parents for these traits. Reaching one parent's extreme takes another generation of selection.
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Checked September 2026. Hybrids and breeds no reference covers are marked approximate. Egg colour on these pages follows one rule: Brown is any shade a buyer would call brown; Cream/tinted is off-white.