The Poultry Keeper

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 1058 Location: Manchester

wow, only £14 for POL. that's not going to reduce my losses by much if at all!

Thanks for the info - guess it's a good job I'm going to enjoy the chicks for what they are and not what they'll get me!

Woodburner · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject:

When people talk about crossing LS with, say, Dorking or RIR for even better eating, are they talking about LS cockerel over other breed hens or a cockerel of the other breed over LS hens? Or does it depend on the breed or individual birds or . . . ?

Welsh Duck · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject:

In my area, when someone says they are going to cross their Light sussex with something it usually means they are going to put a different cockeral to their Light Sussex hens

JustChickens · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 605 Location: Sussex

Wilt, those Silver sussex are beautiful! id love some of them.

jannette · Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 31 Location: SW France

A friend of mine keeps sussex birds, and she wants a cockerel. She wants to breed from them for table birds...does she have to have a sussex cockerel, or can she use another breed?

Woodburner · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:

Scroll up a bit Wink

This is a long thread, I'm guessing you didn't get to this page Very Happy

Dorkings and Cornish/Indian game are the most often recommended, but Dorking are really hard to find here. Some crosses give sex linked coloured chicks too.

sophie bishop · Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 8 Location: reading

i have two sussex noirs and they are 18 weeks old they are so friendly they let me pick them up Very Happy

Sue B · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 346 Location: Lincolnshire

I haven't come across 'Sussex Noirs' before, am I right in guessing from the name that they're black?

I'd love to see some pics Smile

Sussex are my favourite breed !!!

sophie bishop · Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 8 Location: reading

No i never heard of them before until my mum got them for me . yes they are black Very Happy

I dont know how to put pictures on here but im going to find out how

Magpie · Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 541 Location: Norfolk

I think you'll find that Sussex Noir are a hybrid that may or may-not be based on pure bred Sussex. Trouble is I can't remember the company that produces them... a quick google found these people who do some similar hybrids - Sussex Nova anyone!

Tim

CP · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject:

Do we really need all these new hybrids? Rolling Eyes

Magpie · Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 541 Location: Norfolk

No. But then I don't think they are "new" hybrids, just new names for older hybrids Evil or Very Mad

With that site I linked I think that if you replace the word Nova with Star you will get a load of more familiar modern hybrids.

Tim

sophie bishop · Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 8 Location: reading

my chickens are sussex crossed with a rhode island red so they are called sussex noir i dont know alot about chickens i got them from this top breeder i look on that site they do look like my chickens but they are not my chickens Question

Magpie · Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 541 Location: Norfolk

L. Sussex x RIR is an old commonly used hybrid, often called Warrens but most hatcheries will have had their own name for them. The problem now is that there are all these companies springing up who aren't telling you that they are simply a LS x RIR (which will be variable BTW) and giving them fancy names as if they are a new "breed".

Tim

Sue B · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 346 Location: Lincolnshire

I thought Warrens were brown but Sussex Noir seem to be black. Confused

Does anyone know what the standard breeds for Sussex are?

The ones I know are;

Light
Speckled
Buff

Are there any more? I think Sussex have to be my favourite breed. I've got two Light Sussex and a trip to a poultry sale is looming in my diary .....you can see what I'm thinking Very Happy

sue