Supposedly speckled Sussex...

[Coreymoorey]

Can anyone help me identify these hens?? I’ve had them since chicks, and they were “supposed” to be speckled Sussex (though the one I knew for sure was a Sussex sadly didn’t make it). These birds have no white speckles but have not yet molted. I have three of them - from Murray McMurray.

My “Buff Orpingtons” also look to me much more like RIRs. Wont make a difference what the turn out to be, I’d just like to know for curiousity’s sake. They were all hatched 4/28/17.

 

[Gray Farms]

Partridge Rock, Red Sexlink, Partridge Rock. Not Speckled Sussex pictured there.

 

[PouleNoire]

^^x2

 

[happyhens1972]

Your 'orps' look like what we, in the UK, call Ginger Rangers or Black Tailed Columbians....a hybrid layer...an RIR x Light Sussex. Your speckled Sussex are definitely NOT speckled Sussex at all but I'll let other guess on the breed of those....they have beautiful pencilling though xx

 

[PouleNoire]

Yes, very pretty girls indeed, I would love to have some of my own someday!

 

[Coreymoorey]

Yes, very pretty girls indeed, I would love to have some of my own someday!

They’ve got a nice demeanor and are good layers- though one is a bit broody she’ll give us an egg here and there and isn’t too proud to come off the clutch with a little prodding.

 

[Coreymoorey]

Your 'orps' look like what we, in the UK, call Ginger Rangers or Black Tailed Columbians....a hybrid layer...an RIR x Light Sussex. Your speckled Sussex are definitely NOT speckled Sussex at all but I'll let other guess on the breed of those....they have beautiful pencilling though xx

Thanks! Of course the pullets I could clearly identify (one a speckled sussex and one for sure a buff Orpington), are the two that didn’t make it. Have subsequently fixed up an avian net over a substantial sized yard for some aerial predator protection.

 

[Coreymoorey]

Thanks! Of course the pullets I could clearly identify (one a speckled sussex and one for sure a buff Orpington), are the two that didn’t make it. Have subsequently fixed up an avian net over a substantial sized yard for some aerial predator protection.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Partridge Rocks
Red Sex Links