show quality speckled sussex ??

[math ace]

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Yes, they are small chickens with feathered shanks, but the coloring is very similiar to your one odd colored hen. I don't know of any sussex with that coloring.

 

[math ace]

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Food for thought Robin....

The sussex without speckles are good birds to use on the birds with too much white -- - ASSUMING that he / she developes into a bird with a good shape, good comb, good weight, etc. . . . Those two birds could be ASSETS to your breeding program. . . .

 

[texaschickmom]

Would someone tell me how to get a hold of the Sussex SOP? I have recently hatched eggs from Gary farm and have a couple from hot2pot in the bator. I'd like to know what I'm looking for. Thanks!

 

[Howhardcanitbe]

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You can purchase the 2010 SOP from the American Poultry association. It has the Sussex SOP along with those for every other recognized breed. http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/APA_ShoppingMall3.htm.

Or you can see if there is a copy at your local library and just copy out the pages that apply. If your library doesn't have one, check into an inter-library loan. Haven't checked e-bay, but maybe you could find an old copy there.

Robin

 

[texaschickmom]

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You can purchase the 2010 SOP from the American Poultry association. It has the Sussex SOP along with those for every other recognized breed. http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/APA_ShoppingMall3.htm.

Or you can see if there is a copy at your local library and just copy out the pages that apply. If your library doesn't have one, check into an inter-library loan. Haven't checked e-bay, but maybe you could find an old copy there.

Robin

Great idea about the library! I never thought of that. That SOP is expensive!

 

[3riverschick]

texaschickmom ; Would someone tell me how to get a hold of the Sussex SOP? I have recently hatched eggs from Gary farm and have a couple from hot2pot in the bator. I'd like to know what I'm looking for. Thanks!
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Hi,
Here is John Miller writing on Speckled Sussex in the early 1920's. I found him refreshingly candid about the breed and how to breed them.
The second article has a nice section on how to select Speckled Sussex chicks at a very early age.

http://tinyurl.com/7ue5vz7
Poultry tribune: Volume 27 - Page 22
books.google.com
1921 - Free Google eBook - Read
A WORD ABOUT THE SPECKLED SUSSEX. By JOHN MILLER, Sedalia, Missouri.
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http://tinyurl.com/7ovmyl6
American poultry journal: Volume 52 - Pages 784 thru 786 .
books.google.com
1921 - Free Google eBook - Read
Color of Speckled Sussex. By John Miller.
Best Regards,
Karen in western PA

 

[3riverschick]

Hum, I read on the Net recently someone was breeding Partridge Sussex. Was looking in the old lit

and found this. Interesting.
http://tinyurl.com/7w7deep
Dr. Conrad originated the Partridge Sussex circa 1915.
Poultry success: Volume 26 - Pages 74 and 75 .
books.google.com
1915 - Free Google eBook - Read
Best Regards,
Karen

 

[texaschickmom]

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Thank you very much!

 

[mama24]

Mille Fleur is a color, not a breed. The most well-known mille fleur breed, however, is the mille fleur d'Uccle (which also comes in porcelain, white, golden necked, and maybe other colors), which is a bearded booted bantam. Lots of other breeds come in mille fleur coloring, though.

I agree those lighter colored "ss"s are mille fleur colored. I have a pair of Pyncheons that are mille fleur colored.

I am by no means an expert, but I really like the size of that poorly colored roo that someone most recently posted. He looks like a big solid guy! I have my first SS, and out of 4, I only have one left due to the dumb things not going into the coop at night, and my 12yo son being too lazy to count and notice before they were picked off by predators. Anyway, my only surviving SS is about 12 weeks old and I'm still not sure if it's a boy or girl, and I can already tell it has way too much white.

Oh well!

 

[math ace]

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Thank you for correcting and enhancing my knowledge.

GREAT POST!