?Speckled Sussex? PICS!

Bil, were you able to buy a Speckled Sussex at a store? Where? My interest in a SS is the thing that pushes me toward a hatchery order...

I only want 3 chicks, so if I order from a hatchery, I'll have to do craigslist order-buddy or resale.
 
I've been to 2 farm stores out here that have had SS, Wilco & Cascade. Both are Northwest farm stores.

Good luck finding them.

Bil
 
EE, which you're right along with everyone else - totally cool mutt bird.

That pattern feather with bright yellow legs topped with bronze and a single comb would have been a partridge rock.

And that's not adult feathering in either EE or PR, or any other partridge patterned breed, it's juvenille feathering, they actually change one more time as they shift into adult feathers.

The juvenille feathers still look almost barred, the pencilling on a mature female comes in at four to five months and the males shift to the traditional male colors then as well, males lose the barred juvenille feathers and shift to the partridge male solid colors.

It's one of the reasons I love partridge, you don't know the quality of adult color and feather until they hit about point of lay and the boys get to crowing.

There's a certain mystery to it that I find intriguing.
 

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