Speckled Sussex?

[GardenWren]

They both ended up being Jubilee Orpingtons.

I'll be hatching chicks in the spring. It's nice actually. I found out that makes feather out with more white until they mature. Then after molting they look real nice.

Once you get going with them, I'd be interested in some hatching eggs, if you decide to sell some.

 

[Amy King Hanson]

Once you get going with them, I'd be interested in some hatching eggs, if you decide to sell some.

Send me a personal message.

 

[CuzChickens]

Does anyone have any hatching eggs available sale? I currently only have rir's but ive been itching to get some speckled sussex's and with the new years eve hatch along i was hoping to find some and hatch them but i havent had any luck so far.

Well, I think you might be too late on the NYD hatch-along, but I'll be selling SS hatching eggs around February if you are interested. Feel free to PM me for more info. And TN is not too far to ship eggs from VA.

 

[Chickening101]

Aww, those girls are adorable! Do they ever lay brown eggs? (I'm looking in to getting Speckled Sussex!)

 

[Chickening101]

Im looking into getting Speckled Sussex! Thats good to know.

 

[Chickening101]

Adorbs!

 

[3riverschick]

Speckled Sussex light a pale pale brown egg .it's almost like a real dark cream.
Best,
Karen

 

[chkncrazy]

Hi everybody I've been a member here before but forgot my password I got out of chickens and back in.... I was going to start with just 6 but I ended up getting 16 I have four of these guys and the feed store said they got them from Murray.

They are about a month and a couple weeks and are smaller than all my other breeds which are red crosses and Amber links and barred rocks they are actually the same size as my Leghorn chicks they are fully feathered and I finally brought them outside in there MINI coop. Which I'm so excited about because my fiance this complaining of the smell I'm from Connecticut my question is do these guys grow slower than the other guys???

 

[3riverschick]

Sussex are basically a meat bird that was tweaked to lay eggs. since yours are Hatchery speckled Sussex ,somewhere in the back ground they have probably been crossed with Leghorn in order to give them better laying ability .
all the Speckled Sussex are good layers. you can do two things for these birds .
1.you can switch them to a meat bird feed me
. Meatbird feed can be fed from hatch through Slaughter. for the full length of their lives. it's a little bit higher protein and the Sussex do well on that. it's good for any dual-purpose breed that was originally bred as a meat bird and later tweaked to lay eggs. or instead of that you can go ahead and get some Bovidr Labs Poultry Nutridrench . put a half a teaspoon in a quart water .that's the ratio.
give them that for 10 days and see how what a difference that makes.
I raise my Sussex on Drench water.
http://www.nutridrench.com
it's great stuff, either way will work.
Best ,
Karen

 

[chkncrazy]

Thank you so much for the Speedy response I'm so curious to see what mine will look like when they are older other Murray stock and they look nice I gave up raising chicks years ago cuz it was too much work so I just bought started pullets which around here you only find the red crosses or leghorns and I got tired of just those two colors so I decided to go around to Agway Tractor Supply Company and another feed store and grab several from each of them so I got five different breeds now all of them order females so hopefully I didn't end up with too many roosters