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Here ye be, the rest of the flock. McMurray, spring 2016 hatch. These were the least white females.
Thank you for sharing!
So those were the *least* white? Hmmm, sounds like McMurray would be a great place for folks like me who like LOTS of spots on the Sussex!
(I know that too much white is "wrong" for showing them, but I love the look, personally.)
Here is a half-Sussex hen that I bred - who has the PERFECT amount of white for me - which is to say way too much for any "good" Sussex!
Mom was a hatchery Sussex with more extreme white.
My breeding project is going for kind of a "calico cochin" color on a standard large fowl body. Speckled Sussex are supposed to be a dark brown chicken, with small white spots. I'm kind of trying to flip that and breed a mostly white chicken with small colored spots. (And yellow legs, though this one does not have those.)
For those looking for less color, I found the Privett Hatchery were just fine, and I never got any with too much white. Size on those was very decent, too. Privett's were not enormous but they were bigger than the one hen I found locally that was ordered by a 4H'er from a hatchery in the midwest. I'd say Privett was a good choice for size and not overly spotted Speckled Sussex.
This is the amount of white I am looking for on my roosters - again this is a mixed breed with Sussex in it not a purebred:
