TIM AND JILL WOULD LIKE TO WISH OUR VISITORS, CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS HEALTH AND HAPPINESS FOR 2008
AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CUSTOM, YOUR INTEREST AND YOUR KIND WORDS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Here at Kintaline Plant and Poultry Centre we have very full days with our birds and plants outside, students, guests and customers visiting the farm, as well as email and phone customers.
Please email with your daytime and evening telephone numbers if you are having difficulties getting hold of us by phone. We will return your call as soon as we can.
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Tel 01631 720223 email: home@sussexhens.co.uk

Light SUSSEX chickens for eggs and meat


welcome from our birds
we have utility Light Sussex breeding stock
and youngstock for sale

This English heavy breed has been around since the turn of the century but the roots of the breed go back to Roman civilisations in England, as domesticated poultry crossed the continents from Indo-China. At first, Sussex were primarily a table fowl, but the valuable resource they offer in terms of egg production was not overlooked by prewar breeders who fashioned laying strains.

light sussex chickens

In the US, Speckled, Red, and Light Sussex are recognised, while the British recognise several more varieties, including Buff, Brown, and Silver. It is famous as a table fowl and the cockerels should weigh in at 9 pounds, with the hens reaching 7 pounds.

The Light Sussex has been used widely in the development of sex-linked hybrids for commercial laying flocks. They are an excellent laying breed. Eggs range in colour from creamy ~ light brown. They do sometimes go broody, and are good winter layers.

light sussex male head

The parent stock of these youngsters are examples of Utilitarian Sussex - a type well suited for a balance of backyard practicality & production.

WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR MORE GOOD UTILITY FOUNDATION STOCK - IF YOU KNOW OF ANY PLEASE LET US KNOW
click here for some musings and notes on the future of utility light sussex breeding especially the meat production traits - any input would be most welcome especially from breeders from days gone by :~))

young adult light sussex

young light sussex hen

Our young birds at 16 weeks

young light sussex cockerel

Light Sussex have been used in a number of breeding programmes over the years.
If Light Sussex hens, which are considered to be silver lines are crossed with a gold coloured male - commonly a Rhode Island Red but can include a Buff Sussex, this results in all the cockerel (male) chicks having whitish grey or pale brown down, whereas the pullets (females) have reddish-brown or buff down.
This has been popular in the past to enable smallholders and farmers to identify the future laying stock and those that were for the pot.
The feather colouring has also been used to help identify the sexes in marans at day old, using a first cross bird back to a pure marans. Unfortunately this has tended to result in a loss in the depth of the dark marans egg colour and also in yields- there are few really productive Light Sussex lines left in the UK.

WE TAKE ORDERS AS OUR BIRDS ARE OFTEN BOOKED
BEFORE REACHING POINT OF LAY
Availability for 2007:-

We have sold out of birds hatched last year so are now taking expressions of interest for the 2007 season. We have a limited number of birds we can rear in any one year so please book early for collection in the autumn. If you want eggs for hatching or day old ducklings please ask - limited supplies should be available between late spring to mid summer.
Our 2007 Price list list for hatching eggs, day olds and birds is here
***BOOK NOW*** TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Please note we DO NOT export eggs, birds or housing.

Please bear in mind that all birds have to be collected from the farm - as far as I am aware there are no specialist carriers who work this far north

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our breeding flocks of sussex are housed in Brentford poultry house -available to order from Kintaline - click on the house for more details

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