Speckled Sussex?

[KsTornado11]

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Yes they are.... I have wanted some ever since I saw the old movie "The Egg & I"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039349/

Great book,too!

 

[KsTornado11]

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I'm about an hour northwest of Wichita. My daughter lives in Manhattan and if you want eggs we could probably work something out with meeting there sometime when I go visit her. I won't have any available for a while yet. I'm gonna hatch some more first.

OK great...I'll PM you my email address so you can let me know when you have some available! Thanks!

 

[bargain]

Mine are great layers. I am in the south but they kept laying in the cold and so sweett.... love affections and won't bite me - really!!!! Blessings our your day.

 

[patandchickens]

Mine are from a Canadian source (as you might expect

) which won't be any help to you source-wise, but I have to add another vote for Yay, Speckled Sussexes

Mine started laying at 4-4.5 months (well, a bunch, not all of them) and are decent layers, medium-to-large tinted-to-terracotta eggs. At the moment -- probably not full production yet, b/c of the season, I am getting an average of 3-4 eggs a day out of 7 SS hens. They are very sensible, 'reasonable' birds. Not lap-pets, but very friendly and laid-back. If you know horses, they are like quarter horses, sort of

Plus of course, purty

Does the "Egg And I" old movie have SS in it, then? (edited to add: it seems like an odd choice of breed. YOu sure they are not Anconas? (a mottled breed, once fairly popular as layers). I should try to find a copy. I remember reading the book when I was probably 12 years old and being very amused. But having ZERO interest in chickens then. I think it probably did sort of plant a seed, though

Pat

 

[sloallie10]

teracotta eggs as in pretty dark????

 

[chickenlover98]

i have a speckled sussex, they are very friendly, great egg layers, and a joy to be around! I do live in the north.

 

[Katy]

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No, their eggs are not dark.

 

[patandchickens]

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Well, not Welsumer-dark

Perhaps terra-cotta has some special meaning in egg-color-describing circles that I'm not aware of? I just mean, literally, like the color of a clay terra-cotta flowerpot, you know? And that's just one of the sussexes, the others are lighter (one of them, so light I need GOOD lighting to tell it apart from my campine's white eggs)

Pat

 

[sloallie10]

oh yea i now what you mean, um what color compared to a rir???

 

[Redfeathers]

I love the personality of my Sussex... but I can't say she is a great layer. She laid a few at the end of last summer and hasn't laid one since....hopefully she will start laying again soon. She is about 9 months old and has maybe given me a dozen eggs so far.