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

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

(Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake) Shannon Eve holds Cotton, a buff Orpington chicken. Shannon Eve entering her backyard chicken coop. Samuel Eve chases Conrad the hen through the yard.

The buff Orpington is pretty enough, but it’s no crested Polish or silver spangled Hamburg. In her prime, a buff Orpington is a solid layer, but not an egg machine like a California white.

A dad from Orpington has walked more than 11km in a special pattern to celebrate the anniversary of the Orpington Buff chicken.

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.

A few years ago, my wife built a backyard chicken coop, and we sent away for five baby chicks, each of a different, wonderfully named breed: Barred Rock, Cochin, Australorp, Buff Orpington and ...

Luke Fitzgerald smiled as Pot Pie — a two-and-a-half-year-old Buff Orpington chicken — climbed onto his lap inside Baldwin Borough Public Library’s program room. “What are ...