Sussex!!!

[Felicitas]

I have nine 2-week-old speckleds hatched from Sands Poultry eggs in the brooder right now. I can't say much else beyond the fact that they are beautiful chicks and I look forward to watching them grow.

 

[amazondoc]

I love mine. They are hatchery girls and still settling into the egg laying routine. I hope to always have two or three running around.

 

[stoneunhenged]

Sussex are wonderful birds. Here's a couple of my young coronation Sussex (and a partial view of a young silver Sussex):

 

[jkruse]

They have a lovely persona! Very docile sweet things. The roosters in my experience now have been even more docile than the hens. Not that the hens are mean or feisty but I can catch my rooster more easily. I just walk up to him he squats down and patters his feet and I pick him up and caress his hackles.
Good sized eggs.
striking beauty
I have light sussex and coronation sussex received by two different breeders on the light sussex.

 

[Sitka]

There is another "Sussex appreciation" thread going on right now at
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=109281

 

[pdsavage]

i love my Sussex i have so far Speckled Sussex,Red Sussex and a pair of Buff Speckled Sussex (working on a new color)...
I love how curious they are.....

 

[Big Blue]

Our Coronation, Buff and Light Sussex are very friendly and like to sing and dance doing the Australian Shuffle!

 

[RAREROO]

Hi Guys

I raise Speckle Sussex. I got mine from Cackle Hatchery, they are very rare and beautiful birds, but they didn't lay as good this Summer as my Barred Rocks did, but they are my best seller.

Here is one of my breeding roos

here is a 4wk old pullet ( her tail feathers are longer and more developed than the cockerel below)

And this is a cockerel at 4 wks

 

[promiselandfarm5]

How can you tell the sex so young?

 

[RAREROO]

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I can tell the sexes apart by the differences by the feather growth. It is easiest to tell at 2-3 wks, but the pullets have longer wing and tail feathers than the roos. It doesn't work with all breeds but it does work with my Buff Orps, SL Wyandottes, and Rhode Island Whites