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Chickens, also known as hens or chicks in their early stages, have their origins in Southeast Asia, where they were first domesticated from the red junglefowl around 8,000 years ago. Widely kept across the United Kingdom, these birds have distinctive physical traits including colorful plumage — with males often being more vibrant — and fleshy crests called combs on their heads. Their combs and wattles help regulate temperature, making them well-adapted to various climates. Chickens exhibit unique behaviours, such as dust bathing to maintain feather health and establishing a social pecking order within flocks. Known for their friendly temperament, they are suitable for backyard poultry keepers seeking both egg production and companionship. Popular in the UK for keeping live chickens, many enthusiasts search for "chickens for sale" or "hens for sale near me" to start their flocks. Whether you are buying baby chicks or point of lay chickens for egg-laying, chickens are versatile and hardy birds, thriving in free-range or well-managed environments. Their care involves providing shelter, nutrition, and protection from predators, making them a rewarding choice for both beginners and experienced poultry keepers alike.

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Chickens poultry ayam cemani and mixed ayam cemani - Advert 1
7

ayam cemani and mixed ayam cemani

Chickens

6 monthsAge
MixedSex
£100Price

Lovely pair hen and cockerel hatched in August 2025 ,healthy ,raised only with natural food ,great diet ,with vitamins ,dewormings and probiotics ,hen laying eggs already Also 3 girl and one boy ,mixed ayam cemani & appenzeller 8 weeks old £60 for 4

RomfordGreater London
Chickens poultry 6 pullets 1 roo - Advert 2
7

6 pullets 1 roo

Chickens

15 weeksAge
MixedSex
£25Price

Here we have our first lot of girls up for sale. 3 exchequer Leghorn. Beautiful birds. Should be laying within the next 4-5 weeks. £25 each or all 3 for £60 3 campine. The colouring on these girls is sublime! Same as above they should be laying within the next 4-6 weeks. £25 each or all 3 for £60 And last but not least we have a silver marren roo that somehow snuck in 😉 T

BedworthWarwickshire
Chickens poultry Light Sussex exhibition large fowl - Advert 3
5

Light Sussex exhibition large fowl

Chickens

5 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£45Price

We have available 8 beautiful light Sussex hens! These are all exhibition large fowl and £45 each. More breeds available, make sure you look at my other adverts!! Message me with any questions or to arrange viewing/collection!

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.00
Chickens poultry Welsummers - Advert 4
4

Welsummers

Chickens

5 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£45Price

6 gorgeous welsummer hens available! They’re large fowl and £45 each Lots of different breeds available, so make sure you look at my other adverts! Please feel free to message me with any questions or to arrange viewing/collection!

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.00
Chickens poultry POL CHICKENS AVAILABLE  - Advert 5
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POL CHICKENS AVAILABLE

Chickens

10 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£15Price

🐓HAPPY HENS POULTRY🐓 WE OUR RENOWNED FOR SELLING BEAUTIFUL HAPPY HEALTHY HENS IN ESSEX Here at happy hens licensed poultry breeders We have various Hens available at POL all hens are fully vaccinated and wormed up too date The breeds we have available are CopperMaran £23.00 Black tails £18.00 Bovan Brown£15.00 Goldline £15.00 White star (lay blue eggs) £23.00 Light

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GraysThurrock
Chickens poultry Chickens Point of lay hens - Advert 6
23

Chickens Point of lay hens

Chickens

10 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

BACK IN STOCK NOW, a variety of different coloured blue egg laying hens!! We have available some beautiful chickens. These lovely point lay hens are around 22 weeks old and at the start of their career! They’re treated for worms and fully vaccinated. Only Copper Black Marans (dark brown egg layer) and Skylines (blue egg layer) left available now. These are £20 each or 10

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.00
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Chickens poultry Araucana chickens - Advert 1
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Araucana chickens

Chickens

9 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£25Price

Beautiful Araucana hens available!! These blue egg layers are only left available in black at £25 each and mottled at £35 each! Some have started laying now!! Lots of other fancy breeds available! Make sure you look at all the photos! Please message me with any questions or to arrange viewing/collection! I’ll get back to any messages within the hour :-)

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.00
Chickens poultry Pekins - Advert 2
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Pekins

Chickens

10 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£35Price

Beautiful Pekin girls available at £35 each Also 2 cockerels available at £20 each! Lots of other fancy breeds available! Make sure you look at all the photos! Please message me with any questions or to arrange viewing/collection! I’ll get back to any messages within the hour :-)

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.00
Chickens poultry Crested Cream Legbar - Blue Egg Layer  in Preston - Advert 3
3

Crested Cream Legbar - Blue Egg Layer

Chickens

1 yearAge
FemaleSex
£40Price

Crested Cream Legbars Well as per usual with us at Pilling Poultry instead of winding down, we are still mad busy 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ From a day old chick to 8 weeks old Growers to 18 week plus point of lay - Something for everyone It’s always warm in the `’Chick Hut ‘ - Come and have a look - Please enquire as we have so many breeds of chicks hatching, it is impossible to l

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PrestonLancashire
Chickens poultry Cream Legbar Chicks for Sale – Auto Sexed - Advert 4
51

Cream Legbar Chicks for Sale – Auto Sexed

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£0Price

Beautiful Cream Legbar chicks available now at 2 weeks old. Healthy, active, and well-started. This is an auto-sexing breed, meaning males and females can be easily identified from day old. Both cockerels and pullets currently available. Cream Legbars are a fantastic addition to any flock – friendly, hardy, and known for laying stunning blue to green eggs once mature. •

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SwanseaSwansea
5.00
Chickens poultry Point of lay hens  - Advert 5
16

Point of lay hens

Chickens

6 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£35Price

Currently have some point of lay hens for sale Have 2 Pekin frizzle £40 each or 2 for £75 Lot of pimento hens £35 each ot 2 for £65 Banevelder £35 each Cream Legbar who lay cream eggs £35 each Brahma £40

LondonGreater London
Chickens poultry Blue & Green Egg Genetics Chicks, Reared with Love - Advert 6
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Blue & Green Egg Genetics Chicks, Reared with Love

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£10Price

These gorgeous black chicks are growing up right in my kitchen brooder, where they are handled frequently every single day. From their very first days they’ve been gently picked up, spoken to and cared for closely — which makes a huge difference to their future personality. Chicks raised this way grow into calm, confident, friendly birds that are used to people and far mo

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RuardeanGloucestershire
Chickens poultry Day old female hybrid chicks  - Advert 7
31

Day old female hybrid chicks

Chickens

1 weekAge
FemaleSex
£12Price

Day old hybrid chicks Fully vaccinated Guaranteed female The best laying breeds Breeds Bluebells Light Sussex Silver Sussex Skylines (blue egg layers) Olive eggers (green egg layers) Rhode rocks White stars (white egg layers) Sold as a minimum of 3 Collection only - Marks Tey - Colchester Please check out our Facebook page for more pictures and videos of

Licensed Breeder
ColchesterEssex
Chickens poultry Sablepoot Hatching Eggs (Booted Bantams) - Advert 8
6

Sablepoot Hatching Eggs (Booted Bantams)

Chickens

6 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

6 eggs £10, 12 eggs £18, larger quantities of eggs can take me a few days to collect. Royal Mail 24hr Tracked Postage £5.99. Hatching eggs available from my flock of mixed colour Sablepoots (Booted Bantam or Sabelpoot). I have a black, blue and black & gold cockerel with lemon millefleur, gold millefleur, black, white, blue, silver millefleur, buff mottled, porcelain and

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LincolnLincolnshire
Chickens poultry Hybrid/Pure POL Hens for sale! - Advert 9
6

Hybrid/Pure POL Hens for sale!

Chickens

3 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£22Price

Hello, We are now taking reservations for point-of-lay hens of various Hybrid and pure breeds. Next batch of hens are available on 22nd of Feb 2026. Early booking is recommended as numbers are limited

HounslowGreater London
Chickens poultry Silkie Chickens - Advert 10
31

Silkie Chickens

Chickens

8 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

🐣 Silkie Chicks, Unsexed. 🥚 Next Hatch Date 14/2/26 📖 Follow North West Poultry on Facebook for updates.

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LeylandLancashire
Chickens poultry POL 16 week old hybrid pullets in Ashbourne - Advert 11
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POL 16 week old hybrid pullets

Chickens

5 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Lots of lovely 16 week old point of lay hybrid pullets (White Star, Bluebelle and Blacktail) available. Fully vaccinated. They are very friendly and will be great egg layers.

AshbourneDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Light Sussex Bantams - Advert 12
4

Light Sussex Bantams

Chickens

7 monthsAge
MixedSex
£30Price

Trio Light Sussex Bantams, last years birds just starting to lay, nice quality birds. Price is for a Trio but do have more birds available

BarnsleySouth Yorkshire
Chickens poultry Day old buff Orpington Chicks (unsexed)  in Southampton - Advert 13
51

Day old buff Orpington Chicks (unsexed)

Chickens

Just BornAge
MixedSex
£10Price

These are beautiful Buff Orpington day old chicks ready for their new home. Pictures of mum and dad available, very friendly loving chicks

SouthamptonSouthampton
Chickens poultry Olive Egger Breeding Trios  - Advert 14
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Olive Egger Breeding Trios

Chickens

4 monthsAge
MixedSex
£60Price

We have 2 breeding Trios of F1 & F2 Olive Eggers. We have selectively bred these for egg colour and friendliness, from our own breeding stock. They are approximately 17 weeks old at the moment. The parents are either F1 Olive Eggers crossed with Cream Legbars or French Copper Black Marans crossed with Cream Legbar. Each trio is 2 hens with a rooster, perfect for bree

LingfieldSurrey
Chickens poultry Tame blue-gold Araucana cross boy - Advert 15
113

Tame blue-gold Araucana cross boy

Chickens

7 monthsAge
MaleSex
£5Price

Breaking my heart to have to look for a more appropriate home for Merlin. Hoping to move to a more rural setting but it's not going to happen as soon as I'd like. Merlin is tame, easy to pick up and cuddle and very bonded to me, as well as in love with my gold silkie who is now raising his chick indoors (see photo). I carry him and his dad indoors every night and out every

BournemouthDorset
Chickens poultry Chicken chicks in Dewsbury - Advert 16
4

Chicken chicks

Chickens

6 daysAge
MixedSex
£8Price

Baby chicks really cute and friendly £8 each fo chick they are unsex as too young .. so cute and fluffy

DewsburyWest Yorkshire
Chickens poultry Coloured hybrids pullets  - Advert 17
5

Coloured hybrids pullets

Chickens

9 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£12Price

Coloured hybrids pullets all female 16 weeks old fully vaccinated and wormed light Sussex, black rock, speckled marans, bluebell and copper black marans 12.00 each or 5 or more 11.00 each

RushdenNorth Northamptonshire
Chickens poultry Sablepoot/Booted Bantam Pullets - Advert 18
4

Sablepoot/Booted Bantam Pullets

Chickens

6 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£25Price

Mostly hatched mid August other than one cockerel. Most recent photos taken start of January. These birds come from my mixed colour pen of Sablepoot/Sabelpoot booted bantams. 5 females available, black/grey with silver or gold neck feathers or a white bib. A couple if them have now started to lay. £25 each currently or all 5 for £100. 2 cockerels available too £5 each -

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LincolnLincolnshire
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FAQs

Are chickens considered poultry?

Yes, chickens are considered poultry, which is the category of domesticated birds raised primarily for their meat and/or eggs. They are one of the most common poultry species along with turkeys, ducks, and geese.

How are chickens classified in poultry?

Chickens are classified as a species within poultry and further divided into classes based on age, sex, and purpose such as broilers for meat, layers for eggs, roasters, and capons. There are also standard breed classes including American, Asiatic, Continental, English, Mediterranean, and others.

Do poultry chickens lay eggs?

Yes, female chickens, known as hens once mature, lay eggs regardless of the presence of a male chicken (rooster). Egg-laying ability depends on the breed, with some bred specifically for high egg production while meat breeds lay fewer eggs.

Why can't male chickens be used for meat in egg-laying breeds?

Male chicks from egg-laying breeds are typically not used for meat production because they do not develop the large breast and leg muscles needed for quality meat and are therefore not economically viable. As a result, these male chicks are commonly culled shortly after hatching, while male meat-breed chickens are used for meat.