Meet the Jubilee Orpingtons
Jagger is one of our two Jubilee Orpington hens, and is around 26 weeks old. All Orpingtons are notoriously slow to reach maturity, so it’s likely we won’t be getting any eggs from Jagger or her sister, Whitney, until early next year. Perhaps by then they will have grown the wattles (below the beak) and comb (on top of the head) common to most but not all breeds of chicken, and will look less like birds of prey.
tags: buff orpingtons, eggs, hens, hierarchies, Jubilee Orpingtons, livestock, pecking order, pets, point of lay, poultryButtercup: she’s no flower
The bigger Buttercup gets, the less appropriately named she is. She ain’t dainty. A typically gigantic Buff Orpington hen, she thunders across the garden making the ground shake. She is enormous, and nowhere near fully grown. We won’t get any eggs from her until January next year at the earliest. She weighs in slightly heavier than your average cat, and like all our hens has her own distinctive voice: her sound is something close to what you might get if you mixed an elephant’s trumpet with a car horn.
tags: buff orpingtons, Buttercup, garden, hens, livestock, pets, poultry
