(I was wrong!!)Pretty disgusted with Murray McMurray Hatchery

[Poultrybonkers]

So many EEs look just like this also bwahah it's maddening!

White chest means mottled I’ve never seen mottled ees

 

[thistlewick]

White chest means mottled I’ve never seen mottled ees

Hmm perhaps it was just light yellow down on my EEs that are turning out white with grey -- not splash, but that BYM pattern but with white+grey

Her down was white with a brown chipmunk pattern (like her papa, who is Splash w/Wild Brown Partridge (red leakage))

So I do believe THIS is the Speckled Sussex::: ??

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Hmm perhaps it was just light yellow down on my EEs that are turning out white with grey -- not splash, but that BYM pattern but with white+grey


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Her down was white with a brown chipmunk pattern (like her papa, who is Splash w/Wild Brown Partridge (red leakage))

So I do believe THIS is the Speckled Sussex::: ??

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That’s the speckled Sussex

 

[BoundlessLove]

Hmm perhaps it was just light yellow down on my EEs that are turning out white with grey -- not splash, but that BYM pattern but with white+grey


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Her down was white with a brown chipmunk pattern (like her papa, who is Splash w/Wild Brown Partridge (red leakage))

So I do believe THIS is the Speckled Sussex::: ??

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Yes
Speckled Sussex

 

[nuthatched]

Don’t support these businesses. Buy local.

Most local breeders are the chicken version of puppy mills, with a host of lovely diseases

 

[thistlewick]

Most local breeders are the chicken version of puppy mills, with a host of lovely diseases

I didn't really think of this, but I guess that would be accurate.

Most people don't have a single clue *in general* of how to keep chickens in a healthy and happy environment, let alone people trying to exploit them for profit.

 

[nuthatched]

I didn't really think of this, but I guess that would be accurate.

Most people don't have a single clue *in general* of how to keep chickens in a healthy and happy environment, let alone people trying to exploit them for profit.

I know good breeders exist, we have many here but theres a difference between 'letting your chickens do whatever and selling the babies' and 'a bio-secure set up that the breeder selects the birds to pair'.
And most 'local breeders' are just ordering chicks from hatcheries and raising them to off heat.