Help...Lt. Sussex crosses and what to expect???

[Mrshollywood]

Hi,
I have a huge Light Sussex rooster (Greenfire farms breeding) and didn't plan on having mixed babies....

Well... my OEGB went broody and with the holiday's etc.. I just let her keep the eggs from the ladies in the barnyard figuring she wouldn't stick to it... but she has and they are due January 19th.

So my question is what am I going to expect to get from these crosses.

Lt. Sussex x Barnevelder
Lt. Sussex x Buff Orpington
Lt. Sussex x Buff Brahma banty

How big are they going to be?
If you have pictures of examples that would even be better.

Thank you in advance!
~Holly

 

[Ridgerunner]

No idea on the Barnevelder. With the buffs, I suspect the pullets will look a lot like the Light Sussex, white with black Columbian pattern. The roosters should look like a red sex link rooster, again a black columbian pattern but mostly white body and that yellow-gold on the saddle and hackles.

If it was a Buff rooster with a Light Sussex hen they would be sex links, but what you have are not going to produce sex links.

I don't have bantams so I cannot help you on expected size from them. I'd expect the size to vary by the individual, but that is just a guess. Some small, some large, most somewhere in between.

 

[Cowgirl71]

I know that the Light Sussex color is very dominant, and I would guess that all the chicks will be colored similarly to a Light Sussex but with red or buff leakage. You could pm RAREROO, he could probably describe them down to the last feather, LOL.

 

[Mrshollywood]

Here is what the lt. Sussex over a bandy brahma cross hen....

You were right all the babies were colored just like the roo!