What is a Painted Sussex?

[Sinadrea]

I had my sister in law purchase me one because the place she went to sold out of speckled sussexes QUICK today! I've been wanting one forever and the place I buy chickens at locally is selling out of chicks within an hour of them being put in the store.
After researching online I can only deduce that it is another name for the SS but I'm not sure if theres a new breed/hybrid out there now! Thank you all!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

After researching online I can only deduce that it is another name for the SS but I'm not sure if theres a new breed/hybrid out there now!

According to my current understanding and experience, "Paint" usually refers to one copy of dominant white crossed to black.. giving a Dalmation type look.. white bird with black spots. It's becoming pretty common in Silkies though I've not seen it in Sussex yet. Maybe it's become a project color in the Sussex??

Paint doesn't breed true if you cross paint to paint. The following chart from google images shows approxiumately how it breeds..

I cannot say for sure whether this is what the seller meant.. but it's one possibility of what is meant by the term paint.

Do you have pics of the chick? Do you know the source? What country are you located in?

 

[Sinadrea]

According to my current understanding and experience, "Paint" usually refers to one copy of dominant white crossed to black.. giving a Dalmation type look.. white bird with black spots. It's becoming pretty common in Silkies though I've not seen it in Sussex yet. Maybe it's become a project color in the Sussex??

Paint doesn't breed true if you cross paint to paint. The following chart from google images shows approxiumately how it breeds..

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I cannot say for sure whether this is what the seller meant.. but it's one possibility of what is meant by the term paint.

Do you have pics of the chick? Do you know the source? What country are you located in?

Thanks, I am in the United States. I will get back to you on the chick picture and source once I find out.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I've never heard of a "painted" Sussex.
But I'd doubt they are referring to the paint pattern. Never heard of neither black nor white Sussex either so not a project color I'd assume is happening.

 

[Sinadrea]

According to my current understanding and experience, "Paint" usually refers to one copy of dominant white crossed to black.. giving a Dalmation type look.. white bird with black spots. It's becoming pretty common in Silkies though I've not seen it in Sussex yet. Maybe it's become a project color in the Sussex??

Paint doesn't breed true if you cross paint to paint. The following chart from google images shows approxiumately how it breeds..

View attachment 4067260

I cannot say for sure whether this is what the seller meant.. but it's one possibility of what is meant by the term paint.

Do you have pics of the chick? Do you know the source? What country are you located in?

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

But I'd doubt they are referring to the paint pattern. Never heard of neither black nor white Sussex either so not a project color I'd assume is happening.

White sussex are in the standard, at least here. Never heard of black sussex either.

 

[The Moonshiner]

White sussex are in the standard, at least here. Never heard of black sussex either.

If there are Whites I'd bet they'd be recessive white and not dominant white.

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

White sussex are in the standard, at least here. Never heard of black sussex either.

White Sussex are not in standard in US but light are. From the chick pictures I bet it was a misinformed person calling it painted and it really being speckled

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

If there are Whites I'd bet they'd be recessive white and not dominant white.

I wouldn't know. Never seen them but I just know they're supposed to exist...

 

[The Moonshiner]

I wouldn't know. Never seen them but I just know they're supposed to exist...

Wrong thread.
I think you meant to post this in the Bigfoot thread.