The Sussex thread!

[californiagirl]

You don't say how old your SS is, but here are some pictures of mine that might help you:

This is my Speckled Sussex cockerel, Lincoln, at three and a half weeks. His comb is already red/pink and he's developing wattles. However, he has virtually no tail feathers and less body feathers than the rest of our chicks.



You can see Lincoln in the center, at 5 weeks old, has a completely red comb and wattles. The black and white Ancona directly behind him is also a cockerel, the rest are pullets of different breeds. They have either no combs, or very small yellow ones. Also, none of them have wattles yet.



Here's Lincoln at almost three months old. He's just now starting to get some tail feathers. They curl straight up and are greenish-black with white tips. His comb and wattles are getting larger and redder. He is a real sweetie - my favorite out of all the babies! He loves to be held and falls asleep in my arms.


Hope that these have been of some help to you. I wish I had some pictures of pullets to share, but Lincoln is the only SS I've had.

 

[annabell254]

WOW! NICE! I thought they took some time to get the white in their feathers! I just got 6 speckled, and I am so very happy! they are just two weeks now and are just getting some feathers on their chests...I will take picts soon and post! My roo is the smallest of the bunch? is that normal...They are with EE's and the EE roo is HUGE and is already watching the flock haha he sits posted at the entrance of their house while all the rest are sleeping in their box...also with SSH, and Cuckoo Marans which are smaller then the SS and EE's
Here are a few picts from last week

My roo


some of my mixed flock of babies

the EE roo is the cream with the red head beside him is the SS roo (suppose to be blue head) and 3 of the girls behind them and a few SSH chicks



I'll get more picts up when they have feather out some

 

[flowerchild59]

My coronation sussex has been a broody girl this year and a wonderful mama to some mottled java chicks she hatched.

 

[flowerchild59]

I really, really like the temperment on the coro sussex we have. Is there anyone really working on improving them. Mine have quite a few flaws, ie, ugly combs and the such.

 

[stoopid]

I got some from Marquisella, and I love my girls. Very pretty!

 

[annabell254]

Here are my 3 week picts of my Speckled Sussex!!!

they are getting such pretty colors!!!!

My Roo


One of the girls



at the food bowl with the ducks and other chicks



Food is gone...and this one intends on finding more





I love all their colors!!!! will they even out as they age or always have more white on their chests???


and here is one of one of each of my chicks so I had to post it Easter Egger, Silver Spangled Hamburg, and Cuckoo Maran...Looking forward to a bucket full of different colored eggs

 

[annabell254]

oops here is the pict of them all!!! it did not get posted on the last one

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,
That white stripe of down which runs down the front of their breast will fill in with feathers and be lovely as they mature. It's just part of a stage of getting their juvenile feathers.
Here's a quote from a classic on poultry genetics, Hutt's "Genetics Of the Fowl", which deals with the order in which chicks get their juvenile feathers.
Hutt page 132 http://tinyurl.com/27wlltu
"Feathering"
"Feathers appear in the following tracts in about the order given
but with considerable overlapping: humeral(shoulder), femoral(thigh),
lateral (breast), anterior spinal(neck), alar(wing),
posterior spinal(back), crural(leg), ventral(abdomen), and cephalic(head).
Within each of these areas there seems to be a more or less orderly
sequence in the appearance of the feathers."
Best Regards,
Karen in western PA

 

[steffpeck]

Do Silver Sussex have slate gray/black legs? I was sold 7 silver sussex chicks. They are about 12 weeks now and 5 of them look proper but two of them look totally different, different body shape, solid black and have dark gray/black legs. I am worried I didn't get what I paid for.

 

[nakstk]

Do Silver Sussex have slate gray/black legs? I was sold 7 silver sussex chicks. They are about 12 weeks now and 5 of them look proper but two of them look totally different, different body shape, solid black and have dark gray/black legs. I am worried I didn't get what I paid for.

Every Sussex has pink legs and feet