# Free Range Eggs, & other Musings **URL:** \ **Category:** Not The Archers\ **Created:** [4 March 2017 20:07 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/free-range-eggs-other-musings/42 "2017-03-04T20:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [7 March 2017 15:33 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/free-range-eggs-other-musings/42/33 "2017-03-07T15:33:34Z")
I think the safest description is “mostly”! As you say, basically light Sussex bantam, but here and there the odd red feather; at one point he achieved nearly perfect light Sussex plumage - apart from a single red tail feather. He arrived unannounced from a breeder across the road. They claim he escaped, but I suspect they tried to get rid of him because he wasn’t pure. Tellingly, when he first arrived he was short-tailed; on closer inspection it turned out the feathers looked as if they’d been cut, so I suspect they’d tried to pass him off as a hen. We took pity on (as we thought) her - then one day “she” started crowing, so Susie the Sussex became Soo the Accidental Roo. --- _[View the full topic](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/free-range-eggs-other-musings/42)._