The Poultry Keeper

Sue B · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 382 Location: Lincolnshire

Lovely website liked the pics Very Happy

moldirox · Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 47 Location: west midlands

Perhaps she is a white sussex? Smile

jaydee67 · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject:

Light sussex chick

mojo · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject:

help. i have 4 light sussex 10 week olds i raised .lovely colour....lovely marking BUT very little in the way of tails.....is this usual?

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1942 Location: Cheshire

has anyone got a photo of the colour of their eggs please? Very Happy

Clucky · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 2182 Location: Shropshire

Second pic down, the pinky white one....but your monitor setup may give you a different colour to mine, the other two are barnevelders, with a spotty colouring (just for a change of course Wink

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Light Sussex Egg

greentree · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 160 Location: Wicklow - Ireland

A friend of mine creates sex linked hens by crossing Buff Sussex with Light Sussex. Just wondering - are the offspring true buff sussex hens or hybrids?? And if you use these hens to breed further on - would you see the 'light' part in the chicks??!

Mike

mojo · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject:

having trouble accessing website(sussex) help please

seanandgail · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 259 Location: East Sussex

Mojo
Hope this helps....www.sussex.tk/

tuzo2k · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 179 Location: charente sw france

hi greentree yes they are true sussex but not true buff they will cary the light gene and some will have white fethers in there wingsbut this can be bredout with carful breeding hope this helps

Hen-Gen · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject:

Hi Mike (greentree),
I see it differently. The difference between a Light Sussex and a Buff Sussex is that the first is silver and the second is gold. This gene is sex linked which means that it is passed from father to daughter. So if a BS Cock is mated to a LS Hen then the mating is sex linked in that all the pullets are buffs and all the cockerels are lights. Now the lights are impure in that they carry one silver gene and one gold gene. But the buff hens only carry a gold gene inherited from their father. So they could be considered to be true breeding, pure Buff Sussex.

tuzo2k · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 179 Location: charente sw france

hen-gen sorry to sound cocky but from my experience when we did this we got as i said buff hens that bred buffs with white feathers in the wings but i do see were you are coming from in a genetic sense

greentree · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 160 Location: Wicklow - Ireland

Thanks for the replies! Interesting stuff!

Hen-Gen · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:18 am Post subject:

Not at all, tuzo. Practical experience is real. Sometimes in some situations theory is contradicted. Interested to hear of your experience. Smile

mojo · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject:

we had one LS chick that was very white but now is a pullet with correct colour........Gatwick our coq LS is VERY heavy too i have a job to pick him up................but should be able to manage at xmas