Speckled Sussex

[Poultrybonkers]

Is that color called mottled? if so how would you breed that color does both parents need to be it?

 

[Gray Farms]

Speckled Sussex are actually Spangled pattern.

 

[The Moonshiner]

IMO speckled sussex are just mottled red Columbian.
The mottling is just part of their genetics but yes that part is recessive and has to come from both parents to be expressed.

 

[nicalandia]

IMO speckled sussex are just mottled red Columbian.
The mottling is just part of their genetics but yes that part is recessive and has to come from both parents to be expressed.

I agree, one of the many allelic mutations of recessive mottling

 

[fishin_dad]

I received some eggs of a BLRW over a Speckled Sussex, a Welsummer, and a Sapphire Gem. I had 2 Sapphire gem hatch and I only had one like this hatch. I don't know if it is Speckled Sussex or Welsummer. Any ideas?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I received some eggs of a BLRW over a Speckled Sussex, a Welsummer, and a Sapphire Gem. I had 2 Sapphire gem hatch and I only had one like this hatch. I don't know if it is Speckled Sussex or Welsummer. Any ideas?View attachment 2182544

I received some eggs of a BLRW over a Speckled Sussex, a Welsummer, and a Sapphire Gem. I had 2 Sapphire gem hatch and I only had one like this hatch. I don't know if it is Speckled Sussex or Welsummer. Any ideas?View attachment 2182544

imma say welsummer as my ss/BLRW Crosses have white legs yours has yellow

 

[ColtHandorf]

Agreed. It'll be a BLRW x Welsummer. White skin is dominant to yellow, so the chick should have had white legs if the mother had been SS.

 

[gunslinger33]

sometime its takes a few weeks for the leg color to change when using white skin crossed over yellow

@ 6 weeks

@ 10 weeks