These chickens are independent and self-sufficient.

or light brown color and have a smooth, glossy shell.

Your Speckled Sussex hen has the Gold gene. 5.

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Your Light Sussex roo should have the Silver gene. . As a result, this breed of chicken.

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The silver Sussex has. . These chickens are independent and self-sufficient.

Coronation – created for the Coronation of Edward VIII. Each year, Sussex chickens can lay 200-250 light brown eggs.

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Reactions: BlueHorse17. They are also available in bantam versions.

The Speckled Sussex is the most popular color variety in Sussex chickens. The breed’s plumage is soft-feathered, dense, and tightly fitting against its body.

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The Sussex chicken breed was originally bred in Sussex County in southeast England sometime in the 1800s.
They were most likely bred to resemble buff Cochins or Orpingtons for ornamental utility.

The Columbian Plymouth Rock and Light Sussex breeds are really good examples of this color variant.

That equates to approximately four to five large size eggs.

Some breeders have created additional colors, such as Coronation, Buff, White, and Silver. Sussex chickens are upright, alert, and usually docile. Black, blue, blue wheaten, brown red, buff, silver, wheaten, and white are the most popular colors.

Buff: Buff base feathers with black neck and tail feathers. . Some breeders have created additional colors, such as Coronation, Buff, White, and Silver. These chickens are independent and self-sufficient. Jan 11, 2011 · The male offspring get both Silver and a Gold, so they have yellow down. Chestnut.

The Speckled Sussex chickens are heavy, but not the tallest chickens.

Sussex chickens gain weight easily, with cockerels weighing 9 pounds and hens 7 pounds. Another colorful surprise is that these chickens lay light blue eggs.

Sussex chickens are upright, alert, and usually docile.

The Poultry Club of Great Britain recognizes 8 color varieties for standard-size and bantam Sussex: speckled, light, brown, buff, red, silver, white, and coronation.

So, if you can’t find a Barred Rock to care for, consider a Plymouth Rock instead.

Due to their unique feathering pattern, with white tips on each feather, it almost looks like a camouflage suit.

They come in eight colours – Brown, Buff, Coronation, Light, Red, Speckled, Silver, White (standardised in the UK).