My Sussex absolutely love to free range. They do not mind the coop, but they do like to investigate EVERYTHING. We have one that had an accident. My dh was looking after the flock while I was off to a horse show one weekend...a 3 day thing. I filled an extra pan with feed so he wouldn't have to do so much. Well, the feed pan got turned up and one of the sussex chicks was under it. He didn't look or count the flock. So I came home and late on day 3 found this poor chick. Her name is now Baby Doll. She has one cloudy eye from the eye infection she got from being under the pan in all the dust. She follows you around wanting to be picked up a lot. My oldest was working horses yesterday and rode up to hand her to me. She said she was afraid she was going to run her over because she wanted to be held and followed her on the pony. There are a few also that love to go to the cattle barn. My FIL comes over and opens gates and checks cattle while feeding out hay. He gets a kick out of them also because they go and "talk" to him. I cannot say enough on how friendly and fun this breed is for us. I love my Orps, but they take second to my Sussex.
