The Sussex thread!

[OldBiddie33]

She's beautiful! How old is she?

Sorry for delay...phone died...She is almost a year old

 

[OldBiddie33]

Enjoying elderberries!

 

[Nofowlplay]

Enjoying elderberries!

How cute she is! I hope Elderberries grow in Kentucky! Will be planting some!

 

[WendyF]

Does this look like a Speckled Sussex egg?

 

[SA Farm]

Does this look like a Speckled Sussex egg?

It looks like a porous egg. How porous the egg is doesn't have much to do with the breed but more to do with the individual hen.

 

[WendyF]

It looks like a porous egg. How porous the egg is doesn't have much to do with the breed but more to do with the individual hen.

hmm...about half of my 16 shipped eggs are as porous as this one...my hope level for this hatch goes from low to negative back up to low several times a day LOL. i thought this 1 might be ss because of the dark brown speckles on a cream colored egg.

 

[mjgigax]

Dorothy is in my bad books. Can't find her new hidden nest anywhere!!

Any luck finding it yet?
My Coronations aren't laying right now; molting + heat.

 

[mjgigax]

This is so good to hear! My SS has been my slowest to develop, too. She was the last to feather out, has hardly any tail feathers at ten weeks, and has always been the smallest of my 4 mixed breeds. I was worried about her for a while, but she forages well, gets along perfectly well with the others, and seems perfectly content, so I decided to leave well enough alone.

Still, I can't wait for her tail to grow!

I bought 6 SS, as chicks, in May. They are now all different sizes. I should get a pic. At the same time, I bought 7 Coronation Sussex that were one week older. The Coro. chicks are all huge.

 

[estamets]

I bought 6 SS, as chicks, in May. They are now all different sizes. I should get a pic. At the same time, I bought 7 Coronation Sussex that were one week older. The Coro. chicks are all huge.

Weird! Maybe SS's are just a little slower to develop...

 

[ochochicas]

Any luck finding it yet?
My Coronations aren't laying right now; molting + heat.

Mine aren't laying well right now either. One day I got zero eggs so I was convinced they were hiding eggs from me. The next day I found four in the hay, so apparently they all just took a day off (plus I have some that went broody).

My SS pullet was always the smallest of my chicks. At one point she was half the size of the RIR chicks. She was also very slow to feather out. Now that she is 18 weeks she is almost caught up with everyone else. Here she is this morning with her buddies the Red Star, Ameraucana, and White Plymouth Rock. She's not as tall as they are, but she is rounder.