What the chicks of a Dominique and a Easter Egger look like and lay, worked out from both breeds' standards.
A Dominique hen crossed with a Easter Egger rooster gives you what keepers call a first-generation (F1) cross. About 50–100% of the pullets should lay green eggs (some may be blue or olive); the others lay cream/tinted. 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.
♂♀ Sex-linked cross: barring tells cockerels from pullets at hatch.
Preset to a Dominique hen and a Easter Egger 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 Olive (possibly Green): 50–100% blue-based; otherwise Brown.
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 | Dominique hen | Easter Egger 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 | White | White 50% · Yellow 50%yellow depends on a hidden carrier, so it could be 0%; a hatch or a known genotype can confirm (uncertain) |
| Leg color | Yellow | Slate | varies: polygenic, parents differ |
Barring and silver are carried on the Z chromosome, so which parent is which changes the chicks.
| Trait | Easter Egger 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 | White | Yellow | White 50% · Yellow 50%yellow depends on a hidden carrier, so it could be 0%; a hatch or a known genotype can confirm (uncertain) |
| Leg color | Slate | Yellow | varies: polygenic, parents differ |
A Easter Egger hen crossed with a Dominique rooster gives you what keepers call a first-generation (F1) cross. About 50–100% of the pullets should lay green eggs (some may be blue or olive); the others lay cream/tinted. 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.
| Trait | Dominique | Easter Egger | Chicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frame height | medium | medium | medium |
| Egg production | good layer | good layer | good layer |
| Broodiness | sometimes broody | rarely broody | sometimes broody |
| Docility | calm | calm | calm |
| Bone density | medium | medium | medium |
| Foraging skill | good forager | good forager | good forager |
| Cold hardiness | very cold-hardy | cold-hardy | very 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.