Brown Sussex
Male plumage: Head and neck hackles a rich dark mahogany striped with black. Saddle
hackles same as neck hackle. Back and wing bow a rich dark mahogany. Wing coverts forming the bar blue-black, secondary’s
and flights black, edged with brown. Breast, tail and thighs black.
Female plumage: Head and neck hackles brown striped with black and wings dark brown,
finely peppered with black. Breast and underbody clear pale, wheaten-brown. Flights should be black, edged with brown, with
a black tail.
Red Sussex
Reds should be a deep rich shade with the hackles striped in black. Tail black and
under colour is slate. This colour is one of the original varieties and is not a composite breed like the Light. It is a similar
shade to the well known Rhode Island Red, although not such deep chocolate (more reddy), but with the typical stripping of
the hackle in black, the tail is also black and the wings have black in the flight's. This is a handsome fowl with typical
Sussex markings.
White Sussex
There were high hopes of the variety being very popular; however, a pure white breed amongst so many
attractive colours did not seem a sound notion. It has been written that this breed conformed more accurately to the
"Sussex Type" than the Light Sussex. The main criticism of the breed was the excess feathering which tended to delay maturity
in the growing bird. The colour must be pure white throughout and to the skin.
