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[Janepie33]

I have just been to a local farm to buy some layers pellets and some mixed corn and the farm had a small flock of Speckled Sussex hens.

 

I fell in love with them!

 

Dose anyone have any experience of keeping this breed and do you think they would mix well with my 4 ISA Browns and one Bluebelle in a cube with an extention. The Speckled Sussex looked like quite big girls!

[westleigh]

i think as long as you intro slowly it wouldnt be a problem with that breed

[Henhathnofury]

Funny, there is another thread further down on the Speckled Sussex and I wrote this on it:

 

'Umm...I have yet to really really fall in love with mine. She is very big and quite lazy really, likes to sit on the nest and hog it for ages. But that is the heavy breed for you! Apparently they can become broody and make fantastic mothers. She's a bit bossy and can often block the food with her enormous body. That said, she let's me stroke her when she is laying and I lifted her off her egg and held her - she was quite like a teddy bear. She eats a lot, likes foraging but is also very content with being in her run. She is vocal at the moment but it has only been three weeks....

 

She is very beautiful though and apparently, her feathers become more lovely after a moult, as they change. She is milk chocolate brown, with white flecks. Also green luminous flecks in the light.'

 

I am actually slowly getting fond of her; she waddles around with my Omlet hybrids and another Light Sussex she arrived with from the breeder. So yes, if you do the introductions the time honoured way, she will find the breed quite laid back. But boy, she is big! Bear that in mind for the space you have to confine her in...we are now having an aviary..