a Flower Feather Farm flock
So fluffy! So gorgeous! Jubilee Orpingtons are gentle winter-hardy birds and faithful layers of brown eggs. Their extreme fluffiness and brown/gold feathering makes them excellent yard-art as they look like a pile of autumn leaves trundling about.
Introduced in 1897 by the WIlliam Cook family to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign, Jubilee Orpingtons have a mahogany ground color with white-tipped black spangles, white shanks and feet, and red eyes.
The parent flock is one of my healthiest, frequently giving me 100% fertility rates and 100% hatch rates.
Updated 3/30/26: If you are purchasing these for a breeding program, be aware that I have recessive genes for feathered legs in my flock. Jubilee Orpingtons were created using feathered-leg Croad Langshans and occasionally that feathered-leg characteristic pops up again. So, not ideal if you are seeking to establish a breeding flock and certainly a characteristic I will be culling hard for.
These culled chicks are half off — they will be good layers and pets, they just don’t have a place in the breeding pen.
