Dominikers

[ZZ]

Well took the nice looking roo to trade day
and traded w/8$ boot for some raggidy ass hen w/all the feathers off her back and shes more brown biege than black white stirpped
and a pullet that has no tail fethers and they wont let her out the coop

 

[speckledhen]

You'll find many old timers and some just uninformed people call any barred chicken a "Dominecker", which really doesn't exist-they're Dominiques. Every time someone sees my Barred Rock crew, they ask if they're Dominickers. Then when I explain that those are two different breeds, they look at me like I sprouted three heads.

Be sure that hen doesn't have a disease to pass on to your other birds. Check out the quarantine threads by myself and MissPrissy in Diseases.

 

[Davaroo]

Around here no one knows what a Dominique is - but they know a Dominekker! I had to learn what that was

Well one is a cock or cockrell whats the differance?
Cock is a male 12 months or older,
Cockerel is a male under 12 months.
Unless youre from England. There, it seems, some call both a cockerel.

Should I take the roo back for a hen or just get another hen
Looking for about 2 eggs a day

Keep the cockerel, get more Dominque hens. Try to avoid the raggedy ass variety.

If you want 2 eggs a day, 2 hens aint gonna cut it. Hens lay, on average, every other day. Sure someones gonna say THEIR hens lay everyday but they forget to tell you about the high summer slowdown. And the molt. Or when they go broody. Or the winter pause. Or the lawnmower getting too close or the neighbors brat kid with his slingshot disturbing the layers. Then, there are the times when they don't lay or one stops for "mysterious," unknown reasons or...well, you get the idea.

You'll never have them on a regular clockwork like schedule which you can depend on. SO you have to make up in numbers what you can't plan for.

It's just a chicken truth that if you want eggs on schedule, learn when the local grocery store opens, so you can be there.

Set up a breeding colony of Dominques and you can sell hatching eggs, too. Make more money and so on...​

 

[roosters97]

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Doms/DCA/Introduction.htm


http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Doms/BRKDoms.html

 

[ZZ]

Thanks guys Im off to do some research on disease
The bigger one i got missing feathers on the back seems neurotic and has pale legs compaird to the good hen
And the smaller one missing tailfeathers is chicken of the other two and stays in the coupe
I wish they had more quality birds there but i got what they had

 

[ZZ]

Heres a pic can someone tell me what i got

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[speckledhen]

You have a Cuckoo Marans hen if the legs are white, if yellow, a Barred Rock-single comb gives that away. Looks like a cockerel on the right, but can't see the comb to tell if it's a single or a rose comb like a Dom would have.

 

[ZZ]

Thank you kindly, shes cuckoo alright
Here is another

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Whats this fella gonna be?

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[speckledhen]

From the front, your cockerel looks more like a Barred Rock hen, just with extra light coloring. Not really sure about the sex now, but I believe that's a girl, too. If there are pointy saddle feathers that hang off the sides of the back, just in front of the tail, it's a boy. The bottom one looks like a Dom pullet.

 

[dangerouschicken]

That fella is a she! Congrats! You have a pullet!