Speckled Sussex or Salmon Faverolle

[patandchickens]

I <heart symbol> my Speckled Sussexes. They are sort of a chicken version of quarter horses

Not highstrung or silly, not lazy either, get along well, useful, friendly, etc. Only about 2-3 started laying before knocking off for winter (short days) but they've been back in the swing of things for the past, I dunno, 6 weeks or so, and I am getting about an egg every other day out of them on average (per hen I mean), and some it seems to be more like two days out of three or three out of four. Good-sized eggs, varying from very pale to terracotta.

Get some

Pat

 

[sandspoultry]

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We have SS and they are proving to be very good layers, they have been laying all thru the winter here. The only down side I can see is the egg size, they are on the small to medium size. But then again that is comparing them to Buff Orpington eggs which are huge.

Our SS's are very calm and friendly.

Steve in NC

 

[Buster]

My SF's were much too docile and got picked on all the time and their eggs weren't very big.

My SS are awesome birds. I love them! Great to look at. The eggs are someone strange in shape but I wouldn't say they are too much smaller than the others.

My Buff Orps are calm friendly birds that are laying machines.

Good luck choosing!

 

[patandchickens]

I just weighed my 4 most recent SS eggs and they are 51-58 grams apiece. Thus, most of them well into the Medium range, and one of them Large.

Too lazy to weigh more of 'em than that

It'll vary according to lines, I'm sure, anyhow.


Pat

 

[Buster]

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'Tis true. Two of mine probably lay in the medium range and one lays larger ones. Different lines.

 

[EweSheep]

Never had SS but my SF are great egg layers and sweet personalities. They were all from a breeder. However they are really bad targets for predators.

 

[Chickndaddy]

I have had all three breeds and have to say I loved them all. They were pretty to look at and one of my Faverolles was a chronic broody so she made a good setter for my eggs I didn't want to put in the bator.

 

[epona4]

Love my SSussex. We have a pair and then a trio of BR banties.
My sussex are great. Ginger gives us between 4-5 eggs a week. Rocky is a very sweet boy.

I like them so much that I'm getting some more in the spring.

 

[Mahonri]

I have 3 EE hens, but only one lays bluish/green. the other two lay cream colored eggs.

But, we love them.

I have 6 Salmon Faverolle eggs 5 Speckled Sussex eggs in my bator as well as 5 EE mix eggs.

How's that?

 

[momdogz]

Alas - I have neither. Speckled Hamburg, Silver-laced Wyandotte, red and black sex links, cornish, leghorns.....had a minorca, but I found him on the floor of the chicken house one morning - never figured out what happened (except maybe cold).

They sound like nice birds - what kind of combs/wattles do they have - i.e. would they manage ok in the cold Vermont winters?