Light Sussex
A variety of the Sussex · Also known as Light Sussex
Chicken · Tinted eggs · Laying
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About the Light Sussex
The most familiar Sussex: a clean white body offset by black neck-hackle striping, black tail and black in the flights and wing coverts — the classic Columbian marking. It is one of the three colours recognised on both sides of the Atlantic and the benchmark variety for the breed's sound dual-purpose qualities, laying tinted eggs and finishing well as a table bird.
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