The Sussex thread!

[cowchick11]

Ok, I know I am gender confused at times, but why, oh why, is my coronation sussex rooster sitting in the nest box (off and on for two days now)??????????

Maybe he is hiding from the hens or something else. Or just avoiding the rooster do list!

 

[Big Blue]

All of our Sussex roosters have always gotten in the nests too!

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i need y'alls expert opinion on my new trio... I'm gonna use them for breeding one way or the other just want to know what i need to cull for in the offspring... the lady i got him from does not know the origin of these birds... a friends husband gave them to her after the wife passed away... she knows the lady had them for a few years and she hatched these birds last fall so if its hatchery its a few years removed...

lay it on me i can handle it the good bad and the ugly lol ...

just have pics of 2 of the trio... the other hen has a little more white on her...

 

[mrheinz77]

These look very nice from what I see. Is there any way you can get a weight on them. The one main thing I see is the amount of white on the pullets. They just keep getting lighter with age. The cockerel looks to have a nice amount of white. Two important things to watch is size and amount of white.

 

[mrheinz77]

Another thing to watch is solid white feathers in the wings and tails. I don't see any on your birds, which is a good thing. They also have white tips on the tail feathers. Two thumbs up there.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

thanks for all the help... what is the color called??? i have heard the mahogany color tossed around with these but i want to put it into the chicken calculator so i need to know the gene's involved...

 

[cowchick11]

Looks like Speckled Sussex to me!

 

[AinaWGSD]

They are without a doubt of the speckled variety. Which I believe is just mottled mahogany, but I may be wrong.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Looks like Speckled Sussex to me!

I think he wanted the genetic name of the color/pattern. But its still funny!

 

[klf73]

thanks for all the help... what is the color called??? i have heard the mahogany color tossed around with these but i want to put it into the chicken calculator so i need to know the gene's involved...

if I had to put it in the calculator I would use spangled....not sure why but I think I read that somewhere before

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