Speckled Sussex?

[Kansaseq]

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You're birds look EXACTLY like the Speckled Sussex my neighbor has from Welp Hatchery too, hatched Feb. 23rd, 2009. If I remember correctly, the pullet started laying around 20 weeks old. She is friendly, mischievous, a great forager, and very pretty. The black on her is irredecent green in the sun light, so much so we were a little worried maybe she could be a cockerel. Nope, she has been caught laying eggs many times now. If you are just looking for a backyard bird, Welp hatchery has nice sussex. The only downside was I seem to recall Welp sold out of Sussex for 2009 pretty early on, maybe April.
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http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv34/GardenNerd/P1170653.jpg?t=1250265569
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Wow, those are some clean, fluffy birds! Do you routinely bathe and fluff them out?!?

 

[GardeNerd]

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She had a little bit more white patches on the front around 7 weeks old, but no white spots really on the rest of the body yet. Since I didn't keep the bird after three weeks old, when she went to my neighbor, I didn't record much about her development. Sorry.

I have this photo of her from about 10 weeks old.

There are also more pictures of her in this thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=179629

Kansaseq wrote: Wow, those are some clean, fluffy birds! Do you routinely bathe and fluff them out?!? wink

No washing. That's how they look all the time - they are just pretty birds. There isn't a lot of mud around here to get dirty and KaraNChun keeps the coop clean under the roosts.​

 

[Zenbirder]

I rescued four Speckled Sussex pullet chicks from our feed store cage. Three feathered out the same, and one looks very different, they are probably about 6 weeks old. Can anyone here give me any thoughts on why the one looks so different? It is 1/3 larger than the other three, is it a roo? Or did this hatchery goof and throw in some other breed (privett)? First picture is one of the three that are the same:

Here is the odd one, very red, no white, limited speckled feathers:

Help please!

 

[verlaj]

The second one doesn't look like any SS I have had - roo or pullet. It looks like it has yellow legs - SS have white legs. That doesn't mean that it wasn't supposed to be an SS - I have a "Wyandotte" from a hatchery that has white legs, not yellow, and a "Wyandotte" from another hatchery that has feathered legs!! (These things happen, I suppose.)

 

[Kansaseq]

Second one looks like an EE to me.

 

[verlaj]

Except an EE should have green legs.

 

[wanttobefarmer]

Here is my speckled sussex. Agnes. She is my favorite of 14 chickens. She just laid her first egg yesterday. It was delicious. Great forager. very athletic, sweet, and docile. and quiet. My black sex link never shuts up.

 

[verlaj]

Agnes is gorgeous! I love her speckles! Where is she from?

 

[wanttobefarmer]

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Thank you so much. I got Agnes from a local feed store called callahan's. You can call them and ask them where they get their chicks. I originally thought Mc Murray but all of the others get theirs from Ideal Poultry because it is so close to us. Any way it's Callahan's in Austin, Texas. I agree with you about her speckles, also she is a very rich brown and the black on her feathers have green in them.

 

[damselfish]

If you got that odd one from a feed store, it's likely that some customer just picked a chick up from one box and put it into the wrong box. Not necessarily the hatchery's error...

It's definitely not an SS. Doesn't look like anything else I have either, so I'm not much more help on breed!