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Anyone still have Silver Sussex?

Dr Waltz passed away unfortunately. I have been trying to get ahold of her daughter who held back some of her birds to see if she is planning on offering some for sale like she had planned, but have not had any luck hearing back so far.

I'm looking to see if anyone is raising platinum or lavendar sussex, not the coronation variety. I had some several years ago and lost them to a dog and would like to find some again.

Thanks Ray.... I waited to move the next batch of chicks yesterday cause we were supposed to get quite a bit of rain, but it shifted around us, so think I'll be moving them to a larger grow out pen today. I'll see about getting some pics of them today if I can. Its catch up day around here, so...

Thanks Don....I'm totally sure now that he's grown into himself a bit more that he is the last son of Gigantor. I am so happy to have him. This year all I have left here on the place for possible Males to work with (depending on the quality of the ones growing out now) are Big Boy (in my...

Was out spending some time with my oldest chicks from this spring and thought I'd share some progress shots. Sorry for the crap quality photos, but was using my cell phone cause its what I had. These were hatched April 25th. So, just coming up to 4 months in a couple of days. There is definitely...

Don't worry, you are not alone. I started solely with hatching eggs as that is all that was available. Culled many of the chicks from entire hatches and started with about 10 birds total from 5 different lines (took about a year and a bit to get those birds). I test mated everything I held onto...

Thanks, I agree about the eye for selection and implementing that into practical breeding practices being scarce. I definitely don't know everything when it comes to poultry, but I did have a great growing up from the time I could walk learning poultry genetics, breeding, showing, and etc from...

Thanks Don! My dad always jokes that I've always had a natural, but super critical eye when it comes to breeding and selecting birds for a bloodline, but that's how I've been able to make such progress on them. I have plenty of work to do still, there is no doubt, but I think I've built a pretty...

Here's a couple quick shots I took this morning of the growth progress on the oldest chicks. They just turned 3 months old. Definitely hitting another growth spurt, some of them are walking around on stilts I swear haha. They are gonna be big. Loving the copper development as well...

haha, I admit, I'm very pleased with what Ive got growing out right now. They are a nice group

This is my second blue pullet. She's a beefy thing and dwarfs some of the others her age.Love the nice open tail

One of the blue pullets, sorry about the crap photo quality.

I believe it will be a happy medium blue like Luella.

I'll probably do a few test matings, for sure the first and top priority will be to cross onto the black hens and get the 100% blue. I've got a few nice black coppers. I for sure will also cross him on Luella and a couple other real beefy and well built blue and splash hens. I'm hoping after...

I completely agree, I like them to be curious about people and not fearful of them or mean turds. Just won't put up with a mean one, no matter how nice they look.

I'm banking on it for sure!

Thanks so much Kim. I'm definitely enjoying watching this batch of chicks growing out, they have a lot of really good qualities. Its a boost to see all the hard work paying off for sure.

The bonus is that he's a complete sweetheart.