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We first saw them four years ago at Melton Mowbray rare breeds sales, and fell in love with the sheer size and the colour of Orpingtons, we didn't know the colour, or the breed untill we looked in the sales catalogue. Little did we know that finding out the name and breed of this fabulous bird it would send us on the fantastic rollercoaster of knoweledge and friendships that we have encountered!

Joining the orpington breed club was our first step, from them we found out a comprehensive list of breeders who had the Jubilee. We initially made quite a few mistakes, but the whole idea is to learn as you go, and hopefully never make the same mistake twice! Getting some decent breeding stock has taken us three long years, and alot of hard work and wasn't cheap! But you only ever get what you pay for in this life, and how true that saying is in the poultry world, if you pay peanuts, you get monkey's! If something sounds too good to be true, it inevetably is! My husband, Nigel and my self, have been trying relentlessly now for four years to improve these colours, and we think we have done to a degree, and now having bought some Spangleds too, we have even more of a challenge! But all this is done with pride, and dedication to the Orpington as a whole, standard, non-standard, they all need our support to breed them true, keep to type, and show them. We have both kept chickens most of our lives, but non so seriously as our beloved Orpingtons. The breed is so docile, and laid back, make fantastic pets, yes, they eat alot, but not as much as my kids, and they don't answer back!!
We hope you join us in keeping and breeding, but most importantly, showing this wonderful colour of Orpington, we are happy to meet you for a coffee at shows if you have any questions about the breed, please feel free to come up and say hello! We do have appointments occasionally by prior arrangment, and we like to keep this down to the months of January-April ONLY please. This is also not ment to offend, but please, no children, we've had quite enough of nasty experiences with peoples children who have been here and actually killed birds, and who just couldn't behave, so now we have a rule of absolutely NO CHILDREN.

Hope you have enjoyed what little i have already shown you, I hope to be posting some better pictures soon, especially of our German Jubilee's, and i would also like to take this oppertunity to thank everyone who have given us words of praise and encouragement, since we put this website together, the response has been quite remarkable! All of this has been so worth the knock backs from such biggotted members of the orp club who are so against the coloured Orps for some reason known only to themselves, and are so intent in not allowing us to have the freedom of choice, in the colour of orps we choose to breed and show, they really need to have read what you folks have written on my guestbook, or heard some of the wonderful people who have phoned me to congratulate us on having such gorgeous birds! Perhaps then, they would realise, the days of Henry Ford, and his 'Any colour as long as it's black' is not ment for this century!! COME ON YOU JUBES!!!!! Thanks again folks, please keep up all your support coming! XX