The Brussbar :
The Brussbar used to be available in both gold and silver but at the moment, to my knowledge, only the gold exists. The Brussbar is the auto-sexing version of the Brown Sussex, itself a rare breed, and with careful breeding it should surpass the Brown Sussex on egg laying ability but finding a good utility egg laying Brown Sussex isn’t easy due to the numbers involved..
When putting fresh blood into the Gold Brussbar, using the Light Sussex will not work it must be the Brown Sussex hen put to a Brussbar Cockerel although using a Light Sussex can improve ‘type’ and will also give you the Silver version but it is much more complex than it is with the Legbars. This breed has the added advantage of being a good meat bird as well as a good layer and has all the advantages of the pure Sussex. A couple of people have developed Brussbars in the past; Pease and Punnett in Cambridge in the early 1940’s used a Brown Sussex and also a gentleman in Buckinghamshire who used a Gold Dorbar and Barred Plymouth Rock hen, he also tried a Dorbar cockerel with Light Sussex and managed to make both Gold and silver Brussbars
These birds have also been used to produce the Rhodebar
References :
Brussbars - by C E Marshall 1949 - click here
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