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Chicks Chickens Poultry for sale

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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Day‑Old Chicks and Hatching eggs - pure breed

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£12Price

🐣 Day‑Old Chicks & Hatching Eggs – Now Available We have a lovely selection of day‑old chicks and fertile hatching eggs ready this week. All chicks are vaccinated against Marek’s and coccidiosis before collection. Availability changes daily, so please message us for the most up‑to‑date list. Hatching Eggs £3 each — available as single breeds, mixed selections, or Myster

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Weston-super-MareNorth Somerset
Chickens poultry Colombian Blacktail Female Chicks - Advert 2
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Colombian Blacktail Female Chicks

Chickens

1 weekAge
FemaleSex
£12Price

The Columbian Blacktail is a much-loved British favourite — a friendly, reliable layer with warm chestnut feathers and a glossy black tail. These chicks grow into calm, confident hens that are easy to handle and perfect for both first-time keepers and experienced smallholders. Our chicks are sexed females, hatched from our own breeding group here on our smallholding near S

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StroudGloucestershire
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Columbian Blacktail Auto Sexing Hatching Eggs x 6

Chickens

3 weeksAge
MixedSex
£13Price

Columbian Blacktail Hatching Eggs Meet Rusty, our handsome Rhode Island Red cockerel, and his six lovely Light Sussex ladies! Together they produce stunning Columbian Blacktail chicks — brilliant layers with calm, friendly temperaments. This cross creates auto-sexing chicks, meaning you can tell the boys from the girls at a day old — the red chicks are female and the yello

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StroudGloucestershire
Chickens poultry 🤍Day old USA Silkies 🤍 - Advert 4
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🤍Day old USA Silkies 🤍

Chickens

12 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

Looking to add some fluff and charm to your flock? Our day-old unsexed Silkie and USA chicks are now ready for new homes! We have multiple different colours 🤍🩶🧡🖤 Hatched 16th and 16th of Feb 🐥 About Silkies: ✨ Incredibly soft, fluffy “silk-like” feathers ✨ Sweet, calm, and friendly personalities ✨ Great broodies and wonderful pets ✨ Unique features — feathered feet

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GlossopDerbyshire
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Chickens and chicks read description

Chickens

12 weeksAge
MixedSex
£30Price

Week old Pekin and Brahma/orpington chicks unsexed £12 6 week old pekin chicks £15 9 week old Hybrid pullets £20 POL £20-£70 Silkies Pekin hens Hybrid hens Orpington hens Breeding group Serama 3 hens 1 cock £140 Paint silkie pair £190 Quails available from day olds to laying hens

FarnboroughHampshire
Chickens poultry Chicks recently hatched Silkies,Buffs & Leghorns  - Advert 6
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Chicks recently hatched Silkies,Buffs & Leghorns

Chickens

6 weeksAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Silkie chicks just hatched this week. Gorgeous little bundles off fluff that make great pets. We also have a few Buff Orpington’s & the prolific laying leghorns.

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LittlehamptonWest Sussex
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Silkie chicks and gentle hand raised birds

Chickens

2 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

I have some lovely hand raised, calm birds from chicks to point of lay, both big and small from silkie and pekin to Brahma and Orpington amongst my lovely organically raised flock. I have hatching eg

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UckfieldEast Sussex
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Pekin bantams chicks

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

Pekin bantams chicks available hatched regularly Multiple colours available £10per chick Please contact for any more Information

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BradfordWest Yorkshire
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Silkie chicks

Chickens

4 daysAge
MixedSex
£15Price

We have a lovely selection of silkie chicks looking for their new homes 🐥 Available from 1 day old up to 13 weeks old and growing. We have various colours available every week, with fresh hatches w

ManchesterGreater Manchester
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Polish chicks

Chickens

4 daysAge
MixedSex
£15Price

We have a lovely selection of Polish and Polish Frizzle chicks looking for their new homes 🐥 Available from 1 day old up to 13 weeks old and growing. We have various colours available every week, w

ManchesterGreater Manchester
Chickens poultry Show Quality Hatching Eggs Various Breeds  - Advert 5
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Show Quality Hatching Eggs Various Breeds

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£3Price

Show Quality Hatching eggs available in the following breeds - Large fowl - * Show Quality Purebred Large Fowl Buff Orpington’s, £3.00 per egg * Buff Orpington x Hybrid Hen eggs (welsummer light Sussex speckeldy) £1.50 per egg *Show quality Blue/Black Silkie £3.00 per egg *Blue Mottled Pekin Bantam £3.00 per egg *Black Mottled Pekin Bantam £3.00 per egg *Lave

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IlkestonDerbyshire
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Chicks for sale

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

Polish Silkie Mix Chicks 🐥 Beautiful Polish Silkie mix chicks available ✨ Tame and used to regular handling ✨ Friendly and well-socialised Unsexed and ready to go to their new homes now Please message for more details

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TadworthSurrey
Chickens poultry Hatching eggs  - Advert 7
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Hatching eggs

Chickens

7 weeksAge
MixedSex
£2Price

Eggs available to collect or post from North Norfolk: Marsbars x leghorn (olive eggs) Brahmas (cream/pink egg) Bearded silkies (cream egg) Cream legbar (blue egg) Eggs are £1.50 each plus postage. Packed and sent 24hr next day tracked. Growers and chicks available later in the year.

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NorwichNorfolk
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Day Old Pekin Bantam Chicks - mixed colours

Chickens

3 weeksAge
MixedSex
£5Price

We now have day old chicks available from our flock of Pekin's lovely range of colours available. Chicks will require heat from now until they are fully feathered which is usually 6-8 weeks old. This can be in the form of a heat lamp or heat plate (electronic hen). If you haven't kept chicks before please research their care, they are very easy to look after but have s

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WiganGreater Manchester
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🩶🧡Buff Orpington & Silver Laced chicks 🧡🩶

Chickens

5 daysAge
MixedSex
£10Price

🩶💛ORPINGTON’S 💛🩶 Day olds hatching weekly, they will be indexed and require heat for 6 weeks. These beauties aren’t just pretty faces either… Orpington’s are absolute stars for families and flocks. They’re calm, friendly, super easy going, and lay gorgeous big eggs 🥚✨ ✨ Friendly & docile ✨ Perfect for beginners & families ✨ Great egg layers ✨ Just all-round lovel

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GlossopDerbyshire
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Swedish Flower trio 🌸

Chickens

12 weeksAge
MixedSex
£70Price

A lovely, eye catching group made up of one cockerel and two hens. Swedish Flowers are a rare heritage breed known for their calm, friendly nature and absolutely stunning, varied plumage no two birds

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GlossopDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Happy healthy sexed pullet chicks - Advert 11
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Happy healthy sexed pullet chicks

Chickens

13 weeksAge
FemaleSex
£6Price

Happy healthy, 1 week old, sexed pullets (young hens) available, nice mix of colours, light Sussex, Rhode rock, beechwood blue, speckledy, browns, leghorn and magpie types. All excellent laying types. £6.50 each for less than 10. Lots available over the next few months. Can take reservations until off heat. APHA registered flock.

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KingsbridgeDevon
Chickens poultry Silver Bielefelder Hatching Eggs x 6 - Advert 12
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Silver Bielefelder Hatching Eggs x 6

Chickens

8 weeksAge
MixedSex
£18Price

Hatching eggs from my 2025 super rare Silver Bielefelders now laying well and cockerels doing their job. Bielefelders were created in Germany in the 1970s as the ultimate dual purpose bird (worth googling) Birds are large and friendly, calm in nature, chicks are auto sexing females being chipmunk striped and males being paler with white spot on the head. These come in two

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SkegnessLincolnshire
Chickens poultry Silkie . Sussex & Orpington chicks  - Advert 13
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Silkie . Sussex & Orpington chicks

Chickens

5 daysAge
MixedSex
£6Price

Silkie chicks £9 each Light Sussex £6 each Chocolate Orpington £8 each Black Orpington £8 each Hatched on the 23rd April Minimum purchase is 2 Also some older black Orpington’s available

WolverhamptonWest Midlands
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Hatching Eggs & Chicks Buff, Brahma, Frizzle, Blue

Chickens

3 daysAge
MixedSex
£2Price

I have Hatching Eggs and Chicks from the following: Buff Orpington Brahma Easter Eggers Polish Bantam Frizzle Light Sussex Mixed Breed Prices start at £2 I also have Aylesbury Ducks and Pom Pom Run

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ChinnorOxfordshire
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Olive Egger & Copper Black Maran chicks

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£10Price

-Only 8 left now!!- Will do a deal on all 8 for £70. We’ve got some Olive Egger, French Black Copper Maran & Easter Egger chicks available now. Collection from Lingfield (RH7 Postcode) £10 each or £9 each if you buy 5 !✨ The Olive Eggers are either Araucana or Cream Legbar crossed with Copper Black Maran and lay a stunning Deep Olive Egg! We also have some F2 Olive Egge

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LingfieldSurrey
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Pure breed Pekin chicken eggs, quail hatching eggs

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£4Price

Currently 5 hens and cockerel running together Last week Hatched 6 out 6 Selling 6 eggs for £8 12 eggs for £16 Above collections price If you want me to posting out it would be £6.95 including pac

LondonGreater London
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Fertile Hatching Eggs: Blue, Cyan, Green, Olive

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£2Price

I’ve chosen my best layers to cross with my pure lavender Araucana roosters. The hens laid reasonably well right through the winter, even though the coop wasn't heated, and they are now in full prod

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LondonGreater London
Chickens poultry pilkie x seramas breed - Advert 18
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pilkie x seramas breed

Chickens

3 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

Selling due to moving home £10 each £15 with bedding, vinegar for water and chicks crumbs lovely chicks

Newcastle upon TyneTyne and Wear
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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.