Friday, May 29, 2015

Sussex Chickens

Sussex herminée This is a Sussex hen and rooster they are much like Plymouth rock roosters, and Delawares (color wise.) They are mostly used for meat. Sussexs have single combs. The hens are good egg layers, and lay brownish eggs. They are also very friendly and sweet. They as you can see are very pretty. The hen and rooster are very much alike in fact they look exactly alike. The chicks are so cute looking and very easily tamed. They prefer to be free range than to be locked up.The chicks are usually colored like the chicks below. They are popular garden chickens, and have a bantam version at 1/4 size; the bantams may be any of the eight colors. Sussex chickens are colored: Brown, Buff, Light, Red, Speckled, Silver, White and Coronation.They are so beautiful, and again very sweet
  
Approximate weight
Cock 4.1 kg 9 lbs
Hen 3.2 kg 7 lbs
Cockerel 3.4 kg 7.5 lbs
Pullet 2.7 kg 5.9 lbs
Bantam Variety Sussex
cock 1.5 kg 3.3 lbs
Hen 1.1 kg 2.4 lbs

                                                                                                                                                                    


     Give praise to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
Sorry everyone that I never got to post a pic of missus penguin, I had made a blog about missus penguin awhile ago. But I never got it posted, she was doing very poorly, and just this morning she went up to heaven. She was very sick, and very sweet. But she just wouldn't let go, so I finally had to tell her "It's OK just let go, so sure enough the next morning we found her dead. Sadness went over me, and then at the same time I was happy that she wasn't in a sad life. Missus penguin was a rare chicken, she would  have laid greenish, bluish eggs. As I sat there staring at her dead body saying "Good bye missus penguin" I felt happy for her, because I knew that she is in heaven non blind meeting the king having a happy life.
I couldn't find a pic just like her, but I found one like her brother.
http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq3/cottagegardenspics/Ameraucana ...