Knuckledragging My Life Away has a video of Buff Orpingtons.
Spot on! Of all the chickens I’ve tried, Buff Orpingtons are my favorite. They have a little less egg production than a Rhode Island Red but only a little. They result in less meat production than the mutants that are called “meatbirds” but meatbirds are gross.
Overall, Buffs are a nice “all uses” bird. In my opinion, they’re exceptionally good about living free range without finding ways to die. Plus they’re good at feeding themselves (in the right season) which does reduce the feed bill. They’ll eat every bug they can find, a lot of vegetation, frogs, worms, I’ve seen them eat small garter snakes… in fact they’ll remind you that chickens are just fluffy miniaturized dinosaurs. I can’t prove it but I think they did a good job reducing the tick population too. (Alas, they don’t seem to catch bees or mosquitoes… nothing is perfect.) All chickens are vulnerable and nature will kill a few no matter what breed, but Buffs have far more common sense than most breeds I’ve tried. A bunch of Buff hens and a good rooster is probably the best possible homestead flock.
Sigh, for a variety of reasons we’re chicken free this year. I don’t miss ’em in January but I do miss them in summer.