Typically, a young hen will produce 200-280 light brown ... Hens are not aggressive and will rarely peck, only when broody. Like Buff Orpington hens, Buff Orpington roosters are level-headed ...

Those two ended up raising the next flock of chicks, which included a single Buff Orpington ... to finally have a chicken die of old age. Then it occurred to me that she was broody — a phase ...

The friendliest chicken breed, according to Woodard, is the Buff Orpington breed ... “Sometimes when they’re broody, they quit laying eggs and just want to sit on them,” she said.