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Buff Orpingtons

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  • I know that most hens are called Buff Orpingtons, and that they never lay any eggs unless you put a china egg in their nest just to coax them along and rouse their ambition.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917 Various

  • April 6th, 2009 12: 50pm phil - those wot 'ad hens in the yard during the war knew that Light Sussex produced white - shelled eggs and Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpingtons produced rust-coloured shells.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I had been anxious to continue my discussion with a Mrs. Brown on the subject of the relative laying values of Minorcas and Buff Orpingtons, but I had been dragged to the miserable business in spite of myself.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • Pens of beautiful white Leghorns, Black Minorcas and Buff Orpingtons were kept in wired inclosures, each with its own henhouse and scratching-shed full of straw.

    The Luckiest Girl in the School Angela Brazil 1907

  • "I used to have four Buff Orpingtons, but now I have three," she told Mandrake, sadly, of the breed of fluffy hens she keeps in her grounds.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Not to mention the 3rd Battalion Buff Orpingtons, who took a bit of a pasting on the Imjin River.

    The Croydonian 2009

  • If anyone is near here and would like a start in chickens, I have a couple of trios of young adult Buff Orpingtons (a trio is two hens and a rooster) for sale at a good price, and also three Tom turkeys who are at prime butchering age, or would just make gorgeous decorations strutting around your place.

    NINJA POODLES! 2009

  • I tried Austrolorps, Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds.

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • I tried Austrolorps, Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds.

    On the Nobility of Dogs 2005

  • The PEAS Farm's breeds include Silver-laced Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons, Dominiques and Light Brahmas.

    unknown title 2009

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