Keeping a flock of your own chickens can be a fun and rewarding hobby, and one of my favorite breeds of chicken are Buff ...

Buff Orpington: This breed is a good choice for backyard chicken keepers, as they are good egg layers and also friendly and docile. Buff Orpingtons can lay up to 150 eggs per year.

Well, for now at least, Palm Coast is permitting up to four chickens per house — hens only, no roosters. A small flock of ...

The Black Australorp is a descendant of the Orpington chicken from Kent in England. These active birds can adapt easily to confined spaces and are good layers in winter.

She rushed breathlessly into the house, almost in a tizzy, to inform me that one of my prized, full-blooded-with-papers Buff Orpington hens had completely stopped laying eggs, was growing a larger ...