Coronation Sussex
A variety of the Sussex
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Laying
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About the Coronation Sussex
The Coronation Sussex carries the Light's Columbian markings but with soft lavender (blue) replacing the black on neck and tail, giving a pale pastel bird. Created for the 1937 coronation of Edward VIII — which never happened after his abdication — it had all but vanished by the Second World War and was later re-created; the lavender is a recessive trait, making it scarce. It otherwise keeps the breed's tinted-egg, dual-purpose nature.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Tinted
- Eggs per year
- About 250
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus