Buff Orpingtons: The Perfect Smallholders/Homesteaders Self-Sufficient Chicken 

We have the sons and daughters of Ramesses and his ladies and this is exactly why we chose them as our first flock. Fantastic informative video as always. Thanks Fiona.

One point you overlooked. They're absolutely gorgeous!

I watch this whenever I'm having a bad day. Everything about the woman, the environment, and the chickens is so peaceful

I have a buff Orpington and she is the sweetest hen and her name is also Willow...since she's an indoor girl after getting attacked by a raccoon last year I just thank God she survived although her right leg was damaged she gets around pretty good I've even seen her run on one leg...now we have a nightly routine with her laying on my chest giving massages and scratches she absolutely loves it and for the past week she's been doing alot of purring and trilling she's our girl and we love her

My wife and I have 12 Buff Orpingtons and they're wonderful birds. They're so gentle, and they're SO good with small children. Always letting my girls pick them up and hold them. They're one of the most friendly breeds as well.

I just got 9 buff orpington chicks (hens). They've only been here 14 days and they are the sweetest little things. They are growing wildly fast! I enjoy them so much! ❤

You may think I'm crazy, but I like to play music for my chicken. Music has always been my passion ever since I was little, so I thought I would share it with the bird. I sing, play the piano, the flute and the trumpet. I mainly sing and play the piano though.

Love the way you handle and raise your chickens! Buff Orpingtons are one of my favorite breeds! Yours are beautiful!

Helped me chose the right choice! Thank you!

Have recently started watching your videos and absolutely love them. Just adore chickens ans my dream is to have them one day. Thanks so much Fiona, you have a fan for life :))

I truly love all my chicks!!! They are beautiful and great egg layers. I look forward to more chicks!!!

We started with Australorps and were super happy with their temprament, laying abilities, and meat. Now we've added 4 buff hens and 2 buff roosters to our mixed flock. So far the buffs have been friendlier than the Australorps and they've been hardier than similarly aged birds of other breeds- Speckled Sussex, Jersey Giants, Salmon Faverolle, and White Leghorns. Your orpingtons are great looking birds!

Great info. They are beautiful!

Hi! I love Buff Orpingtons and I have Buff Sussex, Rhode Island Reds, Welsummers and Silkies myself.

Buff Orpington chicks are cute little floofs! 😍

Love the buff orpingtons quiet gentle birds

Just received my first buff orpington chicks and found your site. Thank you

Great rundown on the excess roosters. I think that's the best approach.

Buff Orpington are beautiful chickens

We are waiting for 20 unsexed Buff Orpingtons- they're supposed to be hatched in 3 days! We just moved to our piece of land to start our homestead. So, I was really nervous, but now I'm excited after watching you, Willow, and the rest of your flock! Thank you for sharing!

I love Buff Orpingtons, my favorite Chicken Breed. ❤️ My Mom had one, named Sugar. She would enter the house every day and jump on Mama's bed and lay her egg. Which was odd, but sweet. Didn't even have to leave the house to get her egg, LOL. Instead, she brought her egg for the day to us.. Lol!

Thank you. Orpington fan here.

Watching this video I couldn’t help thinking about how happy they (and you) must be now that they are back in their field. Of course they were happy in the enclosure but there’s nothing like freely wandering around a field!

I think you have the most beautiful buff orpingtons I have ever seen!!

This is in the top 2 greatest poultry Videos I have EVER seen. Not exaggerating whatsoever. Thankyou. Concise, relevant and great footage. Beautiful breed.

Just found your channel, new SUBIE. Really enjoyed your very informative video. I am an old chick, with no flock currently. Well my neighbor has a few and I care for them, and visit them daily. I love chickens.

The chickens are beautiful 😊

Great point about breeding/buying hens vs table birds Fiona. Great video!

Yea, they are just gorgeous birds. Hi from maine USA

They're so beautiful

Thanks so much , btw your burgundy hair is gorgeous

Great video, thanks

I had wanted Buff Orpingtons after reading about how friendly they were. Hard to find them in my area. A few months ago there was an ad for free hens on CL. I emailed the person and was given four 4 year old hens. Two are buffs! They are the sweetest hens, and dependable layers. Plus they are very quiet (most of the time). Important as I live in the suburbs and my lot is quite small. Your videos are perfect for someone like me starting out without a lot of land. Thank you!

This content was EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 👍

Great video!

I have 2 orbotons chickens they are so beautiful

I have 5 buff orpingtons and will be getting 2 next month. Love these birds.

Good. Clear. Thank you.

Your Chickens are beautiful.

My husband and I love these videos. I call them Social Buffs or Buffs. We just found a family who has them and I can't wait to visit them using your instructions. We would love to have our own...maybe some day. Love the Cockrels by the way! Hi Gannett! Hi Willow!

My Gran kept hens in a small run, but they had access to a large field with some cattle. But every evening my gran would call the hens and they came running, some were sprinting, to get fed and they were locked up for the night.

Wonderful

I just purchased a dozen hens and one boy. I will pick them up on Wednesday. The personality was important when deciding what breed but the broody hen was the big deciding factor for me. This is a dual purpose breed that my grandson can go into the coop with me to gather eggs and will raise chicks for me also! For me this was the best all around chicken for my backyard coop. Next year we will have fresh eggs and hopefully we will have baby chicks also.

Buff Orpingtons are great birds, when I had chickens in the UK, we had about twenty, the rest of the flock was whatever took our fancy to try out. My favourite for egg quality and size was the Wyandotte, as a pet Perkins had a lot of character and would lay well and go broody over any egg. The Buffs were definitely the top all rounder though.

Lovely video! One video that I'd like to see is an overview of different popular chicken breeds in the UK based on your experiences or what you know

very nice

Hi Fiona, nice video about orpingtons. Hoping to get our own first ever orpingtons soon. Cheers.

That's so helpful video! I am just hoping for broody hen (I have some mixed hybrids sussex, silverwing, marsbar, Bluebell and brown layers rescue ones) and have been looking into breeds which do well as egg layers and table birds and are broody! I have seen some information about them but wasn't sure if it is worth the money for eggs. So thanks for all the information. It is extra benefit that they don't need high fencing 😁

Just ordered my buff ladies ❤

Buff & chocklat Orbington are my favorite breed

Well presented points, certainly agree with their nature our Buffs are the only chickens my partner actually likes because of this. Hope the latest Avian Flu outbreak there does not delay your Buffs taste of freedom.

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I really enjoyed the video, and I hope I can keep some chickens. I live in the city but it have some land. Hopefully I can figure it out :3

They are lovely breed of chickens. I love that they are pretty chill when you carry them, and this video has been very informative! Question though, do they do well in tropical climates?

1 year new to keeping chickens and they are so funny and entertaining. I have 2 left out of the 4 Isa Browns first bought hens. Lovely birds, very friendly and great egg layers. Year later I get 4 Rhode Island Reds, one turns out to be a cockerel. I was worried that these would dominate my Rosie and Masala (Isa browns)...Nope, these ladies are bosses, then I get 4 Buff Orpingtons. Such darlings these are. 5 weeks old and one of them I've named Maggie immediately runs up and jumps into my lap for cuddles. Today I have 3 of them in my lap and I'm so happy. I cannot kill anyone of them, but I'm not experienced enough to keep the male Rhode Island. Plus I do not have enough housing for more. He's 10 weeks old named Peanut. I'm hoping my neighbour will give him a home.

I have some of those fuzzy eggs with legs running around right now. Hope some of them grow up to be a wonderful broody hens.

My lady Orpingtons are my favorite girls! Don’t tell the rest of my girls. Jersey giants are runner ups

We only have buffs and they are amazing!! Very friendly, My roo has a mean streak, but my hens are darlings, and their eggs are so big compared to other breeds we have had in the past!

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I selected some Bielefelders, Whiting True Blues, Cuckoo Marans, Speckled Sussex, Black Australorp, Ameraucana, and yes, a Buff Orpington. They are about eight to ten days old, just adorable. I’m in love with my babies. I was a freak waiting for them to be shipped, but in realty, they only spent about 36 to 42 hours in travel time from Iowa to Salt Lake. I used McMurray hatchery, if you want to see pics of their stock you can visit their site. I have a tiny lavender bird, I’m assuming either the true blue or Ameraucana, it’s just a lovely shade. The buff is also a lovely golden color with beautiful shading. I only wish they had a mom hen, but, they have a big human poppa doing his very best.

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Loved your video! We live in Sacramento California, USA, and have a small mixed flock. We now have 3 17 week old Buff Orpingtons, but wish they were friendlier. TRhey will fly into my lap, but don't like being petted or held. TGhey love pecking at my purple-painted fingernails and toes. I love Buffy, Butter and Bailey, but wish they liked me back. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I ordered some eggs of these chickens. im going to put them under my Broady Wyandot hen.

Hi Fiona, We have have 3 Hybrid hens (Speckledy Gold, Lohmann Brown and a Rhode Rock) all nearly 3 years old. They have all under gone a molt last month, have been wormed with flubivet, 2 have had visits to vet one from flystrike spotted and treated within 3hours, before that the other had a respiratory infection treated with antiboitics followed up with Berlys friendly bacteria, the current issue is that we have not had any eggs for over 2 months and all three seem to have runny poo sometime colored green, mustard colored not solid, they are also not as active as they once were, they still free range across whole garden, eating their layers pellets and treats of mixed seeds along with special treat of a few super seeds. We have now added Avopro to their drinking water and they get weighed weekly which seems to indicate slight weight loss over last 3 weeks, Their feathers are regrowing and they get up and go to bed as normal. they do seem to spend more time resting, preening and dust bathing. could their behavour be down to weather turning colder, still replacing feathers? or is there something else going on, coop has also been cleaned and treated with smoke bomb plus sprayed for mites no sign of any. their combs and wattles are a nice heathy red colour and no sign of impacted crop of egg bound. Any ideas please. Sorry for the comment being so long.

Hi Fiona. Love your channel. I’ve learned so much! How long do Buff Orpingtons roosters stay fertile? My boy is such a gentleman after some very difficult roosters.

Love your channel! Thank you so much for talking about the cockerel issue. Do you kill and process the cockerels yourselves? If so, how did you learn how to do this?

Hi, great video love watching your channel.. sorry this question is about Treadle Feeders, I’m trying to teach mine how to use there’s, if I leave it open they use it but as soon as I close it they ignore it.. any chance you can advise please or do a video.. Thank you.

I did some research and wanted buff Orpingtons bantams, but can't find any in my area. We pick up two speckled Sussex and 1 polish next week. Thank you for your videos🐔❤️

All very interesting!! Well done!! Why do you have little jackets on the hens and why seemingly only some of them???

Hi I love your videos learning a lot, just started keeping backyard chicken from this year. How can I get some chicks or fertile eggs from you? I live in London.

what bedding do you use in the coop, love your videos

They are gorgeous hens. I have 3 x Burford Browns free rangers who also lay 65-70gm eggs all year round. It looks like Buffs are slightly larger than Burfords? 🙏🏻

I really love your videos and i love Orpingtons. Is there a chance her fertile eggs be shipped here in the Philippines? Thank You.

I have 4 hens and two roosters right now (hoping the Roos won’t fight but if they do we’ll have to rehome one) and all the girls lay through winter. Two are mixed breed and two are Pekins. All bantams. They’re not the most friendly birds but I’m training them currently (using Fiona’s great video about How to make your chickens friendly). I was born in Orpington and have wanted Orpington chickens since I first heard of them. Unfortunately it’s hard to find bantamised Orpingtons, especially in my area of the UK. And I don’t want to mix standard sized birds in with my bantam flock in case of fighting etc. Hoping at some point I can find some bantams of this amazing breed! 🥰

Fiona, our Orpingtons jump a lot higher than 3 feet tall! The 3 ft electric fence didn't do the job at all, so we installed a six feet high one. Problem solved.

I grew up in England and had Buff Orpingtons for years. I now live in Sweden and they are like gold dust to source so I don't have any. I don't know what the laws are about shipping eggs abroad, but if I find out it's legal I will definitely be coming back to England to buy some hatching eggs.

Wow did I just count 15 hatched chicks? That's alot!

Great video. I hatched 7 eggs this past summer and ended up with 3 silver-laced Orpington's and 4 gold-laced. They are all big, beautiful, friendly birds. I have ended up with 5 cockerels and 2 hens. I have grown attached to all of them and they all have individual personalities. Putting them to bed in the shed of an evening is a real joy, as is letting them out in the morning. I'm not sure how I'm going to manage having so many cockerels, but we'll have to find a way as we're not going to eat anyone. In fact, I've cut down my meat consumption to almost nil and am moving to vegetarianism. I'm getting accustomed to it and it isn't as hard as I thought it would be. Now...what to do about the crowing? So far, only two crow, but I don't know what the neighbours will think when all five start.

Where did you get your boots!! I absolutely love them! Please, tell me! Thank you and I love your videos 😊 And I have lavender Orpingtons. Love them!!

Love the jackets on the chickens! Where can one find those?

Are those chickens so damn big that they have saddles on them because that's what it looks like and that's impressive. I can only imagine the tiny little jockeys over there that race them around

My buff layed her first egg on my lap while I was petting her

Hi , I have been watching and you have a beautiful house and setting for the chickens . I myself have two Jubilee Orpington’s , one of which turned out to be a male and was sold to me as female . My female is now brooding over a small clutch of eggs , approximately 4 eggs and as a new chicken owner I am nervous about what to do , whether to leave her be and watch what happens , but I am worried over more cockerels and how this affects them , I do not think my cockerel is fully Jubilee Orpington as I contacted the UK Orpington for advice and showed pictures , he has a few stray feathers on his legs and his back has some greens in the tail feathers . I also am unsure how to go about birds for meat for my family or just use the eggs , it seems difficult to overcome attachments maybe . How long do you keep your breeding cockerel for because obviously your going to be line breeding if they all stay together , so I was thinking mine would have to go eventually after a few breeding seasons .

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Why are they wearing an apron on their back? (Love you channel! I am binge watching as we speak..) :)

What's the best feed for these babies if there isn't enough land for them to forage on? I am brand new to this. This is my second video about chickens. I've wanted them for many years. I want to be prepared to take care of them properly.

A watch dog will protect the chicken against predators even from hawks if trained.

My lavender Orp is like a lap dog

There are also other colors of orpintons too I have lavender orpintons

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Hi. I have 2 golden speckaldy hens and have been giving them mixed corn during the winter but now the weather is getting warm and I need to buy some feed, should I buy a sack of wheat grain. Many thanks.

Hi Fiona, Thanks for your informative videos, I learned a lot from them. I was wondering if I could call you? Keep up the fantastic work. :)

How come some of your chickens have little aprons on? Thanks! And also, what do you think of chicken harnesses?

I am a fan of your channel but I have a question about our beautifull rooster where his super loud crow is creating some issues with the neighbours. Would you recommend using the no crow collar? And if so, how often and where exactly can it be placed especially with the thickness of the neck feathers. Thank you and keep your videos coming :)

Very informative video, thank you so much - Greetings from Zimbabwe

at 2:06 why does the chicken let you take the egg while others react aggresively? does she consider you part of her flock, like a superior? Thanks for your videos, chickens are the best.

I would love to find out more information on the 3 ft. electric fencing. I am in need for this idea.. I have not been on here for a long time. We moved from Montana mountains down here to north Texas.. So this this is so different. I have had chickens every place I have lived. We have just had a problem, I put my 6 juveniles out in a pen right next to the big Chickens.. everything went as normal, then one morning I was missing 1 little chick. I was devastated. Then we put the camera so it could pick it up.. We caught a cat! Okay, we kept watching and then we caught a possum.. OMG! so now that I'm down to 2 babies. the camera has caught nothing else, I think we are okay.. But I would love to put that electric fence in. Does all the wire get electricity only the top wire or all the wire? Thank you, Rae

Great video !!! Ckuld anyone guide me to who can i turn to purchase hatching eggs pleass ? Much appreciated !!!!

May I ask what those little apron type things are on them? Thanks!