White Speckled Sussex?

[GlicksChicks]

I have a chick from my first batch of chicks from my flock and I got a chick that appears to be a white speckled sussex cockerel (named him Snow) and I have looked for pictures of White Speckled Sussexes and I have come up with nothing. In my second batch from my chickens I now have 3 that appear to be white Speckled Sussexes.

The father of all of them is a buckeye and the mother is a speckled sussex.

Picture 1: 4 Week Old White SS (Snow)
Picture 2: My Buckeye Rooster (Hops)
Picture 3 & 4: My SS Hen (Biggin)
Picture 5: Newest White SS Chicks
Picture 6: Normal SS Chicks from new batch

 

[AinaWGSD]

Sussex is the bred, speckled is the color. If the chicks hatch out a different color they cant be speckled sussex. If it helps, think of it kinda like dogs. A yellow lab is a color variety, not a breed. Labrador retriever is the breed and Yellow is the color. You wouldn't call a black lab a yellow lab just because the mother was a yellow lab.

If the sire is a buckeye then the chicks are mixed breeds. If we think of it kind of like dogs again it would be like breeding a labrador retriever to a corgi. You wouldn't call the offspring labradors or corgies, they would be mixed breeds.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

How did this chick come to be then? I only have 1 rooster and 1 sussex breed. What would this breed be then because he has somewhat of the design his mother had when she was a chick just a little more washed out.

Do you know what this chicken might look like?

Interesting ... when breeding chickens you never really now what you are get. It could be because of the white speckles in mom, but I am far from an expert. @NatJ will know more.

 

[NatJ]

How did this chick come to be then? I only have 1 rooster and 1 sussex breed. What would this breed be then because he has somewhat of the design his mother had when she was a chick just a little more washed out.

There is no specific name for this "breed" of chicken. It is a mix.

It should be genetically impossible to get that color of chick from that hen and that rooster.

Do you have any other roosters?
Do you have any other hens?

Can you get a picture of the comb on the white chick? That can sometimes help with identifying parents of mystery chicks.

Do you know what this chicken might look like?

When the chick grows up, it will probably look sort-of like a Light Sussex, but probably with the "white" feathers being a bit yellowish, and probably some dark red in the wing area as well.

Photos of Light Sussex can be seen here:
https://greenfirefarms.com/light_sussex.html

 

[GlicksChicks]

Interesting ... when breeding chickens you never really now what you are get. It could be because of the white speckles in mom, but I am far from an expert. @NatJ will know more.

I am far from one as well. I am excited to see what he turns into!

 

[GlicksChicks]

The Silver Laced Wyandotte hens are producing sexlink chicks: sons look like that, daughters are colored about like a Buckeye or like a Speckled Sussex but without the speckles.


The Silver gene turns red/gold into white. The Silver Laced Wyandotte hen has the Silver gene, and so does the chick in the photo.

Silver is a sex-linked gene, located on the Z sex chromosome. A rooster has chromosomes ZZ, a hen has ZW. So the Silver hen gives her Z chromosome (with silver) to every one of her sons, and her W chromosome to her daughters (makes them female, but does not have any effect on their color.)

Here is a better picture of his wing design and a picture of his comb. He doesn't have much for the shape of a comb, just a pink bump on his head.

 

[NatJ]

Here is a better picture of his wing design and a picture of his comb. He doesn't have much for the shape of a comb, just a pink bump on his head.

He has a walnut comb (genetically, rose comb from the Wyandotte mother, pea comb from the Buckeye father, combined to make the shape he's got.)

 

[GlicksChicks]

He has a walnut comb (genetically, rose comb from the Wyandotte mother, pea comb from the Buckeye father, combined to make the shape he's got.)

Oh! I am going to have to look that up! I am excited to see what he grows in to.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They're not speckled Sussex if the father is a different breed

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

I have a chick from my first batch of chicks from my flock and I got a chick that appears to be a white speckled sussex cockerel (named him Snow) and I have looked for pictures of White Speckled Sussexes and I have come up with nothing. In my second batch from my chickens I now have 3 that appear to be white Speckled Sussexes.

The father of all of them is a buckeye and the mother is a speckled sussex.

Picture 1: 4 Week Old White SS (Snow)
Picture 2: My Buckeye Rooster (Hops)
Picture 3 & 4: My SS Hen (Biggin)
Picture 5: Newest White SS Chicks
Picture 6: Normal SS Chicks from new batch

White Speckled Sussex are not a breed. Try looking up White Sussex, you will get more information because that's what they are called.
But breeding a Buckeye with a Speckled Sussex doesn't result in a Light Sussex.