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[Bowleggedcowboy]

Is once a week to much

 

[RoboDuck]

Are dominiques and domineckers the same thing? Maybe just a regional thing? Or are they two different chickens?

 

[RoboDuck]

Is once a week to much

No such thing as too much. The cleaner their house the better. Husbandry is very important in the care of animals. Some people use play sand and just scoop it like a litter box instead of hay or wheat straw.

 

[Bowleggedcowboy]

No such thing as too much.  The cleaner their house the better.  Husbandry is very important in the care of animals.   Some people use play sand and just scoop it like a litter box instead of hay or wheat straw.

I agree with you.. Can't be to clean thanks Roboduck.

 

[CliffB]

Once a week is a lot but it will be easier to maintain overall. Worse case if there is a week you just can't get to it, throw a hand of scratch into the coop and let them stir it all up for you.

 

[GAMarans]

Frequency of bedding change has a lot to do with not just the number of birds and size of coop ... if you do the deep bedding method you don't change it as often, if a lot of rain water gets to the bedding you'll want to change it more often. If you are able to clean out the poo from time to time and turn the bedding it will last longer between changings. I try to go with a deep bedding in our coop. When it is getting close to changing time I rake it out into the pen so that the birds can spread it around and walk on it and such. That helps to clean the floor of the pen. (The hay absorbs a lot the poo and such from the dirt.) After they've had it on the floor of the pen for a while I remove it to the compost pile.

 

[carcar80]

My oops eggs have both had yolks. Here's the last one... It was a little bigger than the first.

 

[Bowleggedcowboy]

Are dominiques and domineckers the same thing?  Maybe just a regional thing?  Or are they two different chickens?

I know Dominique and Plymouth Rocks are the same. People up north call them Plymouth Rocks

 

[GAMarans]

http://www.dominiquechicken.com/Dominiques_and_Barred_Rocks.html

 

[valleychicks]

Are dominiques and domineckers the same thing? Maybe just a regional thing? Or are they two different chickens?

Yes, depends on what part of the South you live in as to who calls them what. I have one and my neighbor (originally from NC) calls her a Dominicker.