Speckled Sussex flock

Speckled Sussex: We have raised this breed for sixteen years. We have introduced outside stock twice. Good layers for a heavy breed, they are white-fleshed and make an excellent dinner fowl. They still have a natural instinct to go broody, setting and hatching out chicks each spring. The origins, like much of British fowl, come from the Dorking breed, introduced by the Roman’s in the invasion of 55 BC. More recently they evolved out of the Old Kent Fowl in the Kent and Sussex region of England. The first breed standards were established in 1864.

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Reading this weekend: “The Sussex” by Peter Smith, signed first edition (take that, Clem). And “American State Papers, Documents of the Congress of the United States, Public Lands Volume V, December 3^rd, 1827 through March 3, 1829”. Published 1860. This has extensive records on our family and their settlement along Bayou que de Tortue, below Crowley, LA in the late 1700’s.