Brown Sussex genetics

[Garethhale]

 

[Garethhale]

 

[Garethhale]

These are the Brussbar. The brown Sussex are in the incubator. Day15, if I manage to get some hatched I’ll post some photos in a little over a week.

 

[Angeline1978]

By the way welcome! You have beautiful chickens. I know the bruBruss come in many different colors and color patterns... besides the barring. Good luck with your babies. Let me know how they turn out. I really wish we had them here. That is something I'm working on now!

 

[nicalandia]

By the way welcome! You have beautiful chickens. I know the bruBruss come in many different colors and color patterns...besides the barring

True breeding Brusbars can only come in only one color and pattern, Barred Wildtype and any other color or pattern(Specially other than with sex linked barring) it´s not a true Brusbar and not autosexing.

At Garethhale. Thanks for posting pics of your Brusbars, they are indeed Autosexing(based on e+ and sex linked barring).

 

[Garethhale]

Yes these are pure Brussbar and autosexing from very good breeders and one of the few remaining breedings groups in the Uk. The Brussbar was also created in silver using a silver Sussex but are extinct in the Uk and possibly elsewhere although could be recreated in about 3/4 years with some good breeding stock. I’m incubating some eggs from my birds now so I’m hoping fertility is good. If you guys do manage to recreate in USA it would be interesting to see the progress.

 

[Angeline1978]

It has been a difficult journey so far because of availability of parent stock but it will be worth my time and effort to help save them. Beautiful breed! Thank you for your pictures!!!

 

[Angeline1978]

True breeding Brusbars can only come in only one color and pattern, Barred Wildtype and any other color or pattern(Specially other than with sex linked barring) it´s not a true Brusbar and not autosexing.

At Garethhale. Thanks for posting pics of your Brusbars, they are indeed Autosexing(based on e+ and sex linked barring).

Well I guess you will need to talk to the RBST and The Livestock Conservancy. They must have the wrong pictures for Brussbar.

 

[gojira]

Well I guess you will need to talk to the RBST and The Livestock Conservancy. They must have the wrong pictures for Brussbar. View attachment 1407033

What picture does The Livestock Conservancy use for Brussbars? I don't put a lot of stock into The Livestock Conservancy anyway. The picture you posted is the color and pattern @niclandia mentioned, so how would they be posting the wrong picture?

The only ways to save the breed are to move to the UK, or import birds to the US. If you cross birds in the US, that is a recreation, not saving the original birds. It would not be difficult to create birds that would pass for Brussbars, but they would be a recreation. That is one of my favorite color patterns, but perhaps one of the easiest to obtain.

 

[nicalandia]

Well I guess you will need to talk to the RBST and The Livestock Conservancy. They must have the wrong pictures for Brussbar.

The male on the picture you posted is from a Wild Type autosexing rooster, which is wild type with sex link barring, you will see this pattern on most of all autosexing breeds, this could vary somewhat from bird to bird due to red enhancers or melanin enhancers, but they have the same pattern