Speckled Sussex owners please

[speckledhen]

Found a pic of my Nelda, described above.

 

[Mahonri]

My kids love our little roo Oliver.

Yesterday he turned 6 weeks old.

Here he is a day old:

And here my 14 year old son is trying to get him to hold still at 5 weeks.

Showing off all of the white on his belly!

We got his egg from bargain (Nancy) in Georgia.

 

[tellynpeep]

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They're chickens; how could you NOT enjoy them!?!

 

[chickenbike]

I'll be getting a dozen fertilized eggs in May to hatch. I'm very excited to add this breed to my flock....they're so beautiful!

I was reading that some fanciers believe you can sex the chicks at day olds. The cocks having white wings and the pullets having light brown wings, but there is no scientific basis for this thought.

Anybody have experience trying to sex day old SS?

 

[Felicitas]

I have nine SS that I hatched from eggs purchased from Sands Poultry. They are ten weeks old now, and just really friendly and sweet. They always come running when I go outside. They're going to be pretty big too, I think.

 

[Kim_NC]

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They're chickens; how could you NOT enjoy them!?!

LOL...how true! where was my mind?!

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

We have 5 SS. They are pretty and sweet. Too sweet for their own good--they do get picked on by the other chickens a bit, and they are always on the bottom roost.

A couple of them are really funny. We had a horrible time last summer when we had a barbecue and they kept sneaking up and stealing food off people's plates. Just like puppies.

 

[Kansaseq]

Speckledhen, Nelda is gorgeous.
Mahonri, I've never seen a Ss with a white belly-cool. Guess there is quite a variation in the distribution of white. I can't wait to see what mine look like as adults. They came from a hatchery, so who knows.

Thanks for the pictures! Keep 'em coming!

 

[Katy]

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That's how they feather in at first. As they grow they'll have less white on their bellies.

 

[patandchickens]

When mine were chicks last year, the two with (by far) the most white on their chests/tummies ended up being the males. They also seemed to have either more white in their wing flight feathers or maybe it was just more conspicuous.

I love my sussexes. They are uncomplicated and sensible, sort of the 'quarter horses' of chickens

Mine are laying about 3 days out of 4 at present, medium to large eggs ranging from barely tinted to pretty dark. One of the two males was an annoying moron (he is now sold); the other, my rooster Pants, is *wonderful*, very responsible and gentlemanly and takes excellent care of his ladies without having ever so much as looked at me funny.

Will be setting my first batch of their eggs on Wednesday [including a couple out of Pants' whackadoodle little Golden Campine concubine], cross fingers for them

Pat