show quality speckled sussex ??

[jockeyeba]

This is the one I'm taking. She hatched mid May from Alexandra Douglas' eggs.

Good Luck

 

[jockeyeba]

Hey all I have a story for you guys you ain't gonna believe...... I don't have show qyuiality stock, just hatchery birds, but I do have the toughest little SS hen that ..... EVER LIVED......SnowFlake the Miracle chicken and here is her story.

October 26th my girl is not in at roost time, she is missing, so I get the flash light and go looking, no sing of her, not even a feather, so I figure maybe she is lost in the corn field that isn't cut yet and pray she makes it through the night and I will look for her in the am.... at daybreak......... Next morning looked everywhere......... no sign of her no feathers no gut pile, nothing at all to tell me what happened to her, so I figure a hawk or eagle took her so quickly she never even had time to squawk. Well I still kept an eye out for a week thinking she would pop up because no sign of fowl...hehe play.
Now comes Tuesday November 6th, my Gf comes over with a movie War Horse, she asks me again what my missing chicken looks like..... I show her a year old picture that's all I have, and say come out to the barn I'll show ya how they molt out with more white....... she asked because she has a chicken she doesn't recognize as hers...........because they change quite a bit after the molt.
So anyway I want to show her peepers and sissy my only remaining SS, well sissy is missing now can't find her start calling and Sue see's a chicken stuck behind the wood pile, ok we found sissy or so we thought, we started tearing down the wood pile which consist of logs 10 or 12 inches in diameter and 13 feet long and as high as my chest, support poles for the new cordwood Chicken coop we will build come spring....... well we pull out my stuck chicken to find it isn't Sissy at all its Snowflake, and she has now been missing almost 3 weeks, stuck under the pile next to the garage with no food and no water all that time. and she is by some miracle alive........ 5 lbs lighter, dehydrated, half frozen its been getting in the 20's at night and she was on concrete and crippled from being stuck with her right leg under her, she spends the next 2 days with a sling holding her up because she can't walk, but she is still alive...

.. she is still recouping in my hospital cage inside my living room, but she is fine, her leg came back and she is gaining weight steadily. How she is even alive I have no idea, but she is the toughest little hen there ever was........ and I'm very grateful to have her back. she is also very sweet as are all my Hatchery SS girls......... I had 4 but 1 had to go she was eating eggs, but I have never seen a more resilient or friendly chicken,................. Kim

Matter of fact she will most likely go back out with the flock tomorrow because she is going stir crazy in the cage, knocking over her food and water every five minutes for the last 2 days.......... feisty girl she is..........as is Sissy who was hiding up on the hay pile laying her egg........

I can't believe she could be there for 3 weeks & not be screaming & hollering Glad she's recovering

 

[cowchick11]

Attended my last show of the season last weekend.

That made 7. My SS didn't do as well but some of their feathers were in rough shape (rainstorm, mud, wind, well went belly up on Tues. so nothing got washed). I had the only LF Sussex there and the only Speckled. So, had BV, RV, Best of Breed and Reserve Breed. If you are looking back at photos orange #78 placed 1st w/ BB, orange #81 placed 2nd w/ RB, and orange #80 placed 3rd.
My friend that has started showing and tag team driving to shows with me bought 5 SS bantam chicks at the show from one of the youth that was selling 4 or 5 breeds of bantam chicks and some started pairs. She waited until I was not clearking for Jim Adkins, an awesome and FAST judge, to ask me if I would be mad if she got SS!

I told her it would be cool to have genetics to trade with so close. Then I found out they were bantams. Oh well, her daughter is in first grade and she is excited about her second year in 4-H with little chickens!

We'll see who ends up showing those little guys next year.

One of my Black Orpington hens took BV, BB, and Champion English!!!

This was the largest showing of LF Orps I have seen at a show about 25 -30 birds and all of the color varieties in the SOP represented, plus splash and lavendar. My lav projects did o.k., they were dirty.
It was the Washington Feather Fanciers Winter Brisk Show and they blew the top off of their previous years' numbers; they broke 1000 birds

with chickens, turkeys, guineas and waterfowl!!! It was an awesome show!!! They also had a really good sales area. And, I was volunteered, I am now "broke in" as the Poultry Press ad taker.

This was also the first show ever that I got to be an official "scribe" for an APA judge!
I also just received an e-mail from a gal in OR that has two pullets and a cockerel of SS LF and she has decided to work on another breed. She kept the best trio of the ones she started with this spring. They are from different sources but I told her to send me photos and her price. I liked the photos she posted of them about 2 months ago when she was narrowing down to the trio. Told her to keep me in mind if she decided to sell them. Hope she sends pictures soon!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, hope you are enjoying your turkey or a bad attitude SS roo for dinner!
Pam

 

[cowchick11]

This is the one I'm taking. She hatched mid May from Alexandra Douglas' eggs.

mrheinz77, is this your very first show ever???

Glad you are not too chicken to try this out! From your photos I think the judge will tell you that your pullet has too much white on the body, fluff and especially in the wings.

I hope her weight is on or close to that of the standard. Way cannot tell that by the pics. It looks like she has good body type, her shape looks good and it is hard to tell by the way she is standing but I think her tail angle is good too.

Let us know how you do and comments from the judge. Good luck at your show, talk to people, ask the judge good questions (at an appropriate time), and make chicken people friends!

 

[Arielle]

Cowchick--Nice job on showing!!!

Bantams are very popular. THe show I went to last Sunday was the Northeast Bantam Fanciers Club ( I think I have all the words right, lol) and the show secretary said this was the biggest turn out yet. Mostly bantams in the cages. Mostly bantams in the sales area too. LF seems to sell quickly, or it was just noticeable when they were gone.

Looks like chickens are gaining in popularity!
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Mr Heinz-- nice looking pullet, the white looks pretty even.

 

[mrheinz77]

I showed 1 time in 4-H over 20 years ago. I ended up winning the show with a Black Jersey Giant pullet. I went to this show last year to get my Bantam Langshans. (I'm taking 4 to the show and showing against the breeder I got my line from and the breeder he got his line from).

I agree on the amount of white but I figured I needed to start somewhere. As a side note, none of the wing srathers are solid white. She did not like having her picture taken that day.

 

[Arielle]

I have 5 hens, one of my most promising pullets died this summer, she had far less white than the others and fairly even distribution. Fate seems to favor the better birds. UGH. So I too will work with what I have left. We all start somewhere.

 

[math ace]

Hey all I have a story for you guys you ain't gonna believe...... I don't have show qyuiality stock, just hatchery birds, but I do have the toughest little SS hen that ..... EVER LIVED......SnowFlake the Miracle chicken and here is her story.
October 26th my girl is not in at roost time, she is missing, so I get the flash light and go looking, no sing of her, not even a feather, so I figure maybe she is lost in the corn field that isn't cut yet and pray she makes it through the night and I will look for her in the am.... at daybreak......... Next morning looked everywhere......... no sign of her no feathers no gut pile, nothing at all to tell me what happened to her, so I figure a hawk or eagle took her so quickly she never even had time to squawk. Well I still kept an eye out for a week thinking she would pop up because no sign of fowl...hehe play.
Now comes Tuesday November 6th, my Gf comes over with a movie War Horse, she asks me again what my missing chicken looks like..... I show her a year old picture that's all I have, and say come out to the barn I'll show ya how they molt out with more white....... she asked because she has a chicken she doesn't recognize as hers...........because they change quite a bit after the molt.
So anyway I want to show her peepers and sissy my only remaining SS, well sissy is missing now can't find her start calling and Sue see's a chicken stuck behind the wood pile, ok we found sissy or so we thought, we started tearing down the wood pile which consist of logs 10 or 12 inches in diameter and 13 feet long and as high as my chest, support poles for the new cordwood Chicken coop we will build come spring....... well we pull out my stuck chicken to find it isn't Sissy at all its Snowflake, and she has now been missing almost 3 weeks, stuck under the pile next to the garage with no food and no water all that time. and she is by some miracle alive........ 5 lbs lighter, dehydrated, half frozen its been getting in the 20's at night and she was on concrete and crippled from being stuck with her right leg under her, she spends the next 2 days with a sling holding her up because she can't walk, but she is still alive...
.. she is still recouping in my hospital cage inside my living room, but she is fine, her leg came back and she is gaining weight steadily. How she is even alive I have no idea, but she is the toughest little hen there ever was........ and I'm very grateful to have her back. she is also very sweet as are all my Hatchery SS girls......... I had 4 but 1 had to go she was eating eggs, but I have never seen a more resilient or friendly chicken,................. Kim
Matter of fact she will most likely go back out with the flock tomorrow because she is going stir crazy in the cage, knocking over her food and water every five minutes for the last 2 days.......... feisty girl she is..........as is Sissy who was hiding up on the hay pile laying her egg........

This is INCREDIBLE! LOVE the sling idea too! WOW! Awesome hen, AWESOME owner... GREAT JOB!

 

[math ace]

Call me stupid but I decided to show at the Eastern Iowa Poultry show this weekend and what do you think I decided to do? Yup, that's right. I entered one of my Speckled Sussex Pullets. I figured ar least I'd get my feet wet. (My whole body is getting wet, though, washing them). There was one Speckled Sussex there last year. When I taught, I took my students to the Regional Physics Olympics and I told them the first year I didn't care how they did. It was a learning experience. I'm looking at this show as a learning experience as well.

EXCELLENT attitude!

BRAVO on entering and getting your feet wet.

Which SS are you entering?

 

[math ace]

Opps.... I just read far enough to see this is the one you are taking. I see the white wing feather, I think it could be a DQ. I hope you get a chance to talk to the judge.
I've been to a few shows and really wonder when the judges have time to talk to anyone. However, I think this has to be the most important aspect of entering your birds