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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 🐥Sablepoot hatching eggs- (booted bantams)🐥 - Advert 1
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🐥Sablepoot hatching eggs- (booted bantams)🐥

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£3Price

Hey chicken enthusiasts! Exciting news—my beautiful sablepoot bantams are laying, and the fertility rate on these hatching eggs has been fantastic so far. Sablepoots are a true bantam breed, known for being super friendly and easy to handle—perfect if you want chickens with personality. In my little flock, I have four lemon Millefleur and two gold Millefleur hens. If you

TadworthSurrey
5.0
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Hatching eggs for Sale

Chickens

6 daysAge
MixedSex
£3Price

Available for collection or ready for delivery Barbu d’uccle eggs £3/each Silkie eggs £3 each in the following colours: Gold Blue Splash White We can also do mixed boxes. All eggs are £3 plus postage which is between £4-6. Postage will be with Royal Mail Tracked 24 and you will be provided with a tracking number. We will only dispatch Monday-Thursday to ensure eggs are

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StroudGloucestershire
Chickens poultry Chickens Point of lay hens - Advert 3
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Chickens Point of lay hens

Chickens

1 yearAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

THIS ADVERT HAS BEEN UPDATED AS WE NOW HAVE LOTS OF DIFFERENT BREEDS BACK IN STOCK!!! 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. The following breeds are all available now: Copper Black Marans (dark brown egg layer) Skylines (blue egg lay

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.0
Chickens poultry Purebred Polish Poland Bantam Hatching Egg - Advert 4
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Purebred Polish Poland Bantam Hatching Egg

Chickens

7 weeksAge
MixedSex
£2Price

Please visit my new website to purchase eggs - £12 per X 6 https://www.harrietshappyhens.co.uk/ Listing is for hatching eggs from my breeding pens of Purebred Polish Bantams. They are all in their individual pens and a mix of eggs will be sent as they all aren't laying yet so will be collected the morning fresh. I have - 🖤Silver Laced - Smooth and Frizzle 🧡Chamios

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Saint AustellCornwall
Chickens poultry Brahma Large Fowl Hatching Eggs - Advert 5
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Brahma Large Fowl Hatching Eggs

Chickens

10 weeksAge
MixedSex
£18Price

Hatching eggs: 6 eggs £18, 12 eggs £36. Flat Rate Royal Mail 24hr Tracked Postage £5.99. Larger quantities of eggs can take me a few days to collect. From my flock of large fowl mixed colour Brahma. I have an Isabel cockerel, a Buff Blue Colombian Cockerels, 4 Buff Blue Colombian hens, 1 Blue Gold Laced, 1 Dark, 1 Red Pyle and 1 Blue Splash. (We also have a couple of bl

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LincolnLincolnshire
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💙 EXHIBITION STOCK- SABLEPPOT HATCHING EGGS🥚

Chickens

2 daysAge
MixedSex
£4Price

Hey chicken enthusiasts! Exciting news—my beautiful sablepoot bantams are laying, and the fertility rate on these hatching eggs has been fantastic so far. Sablepoots are a true bantam breed, known for being super friendly and easy to handle—perfect if you want chickens with personality. In my little flock, will reciveve eggs from my silver, blue partridge, cuckoo and blu

TadworthSurrey
5.0
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Bantam mum with 15 Pekin bantam chicks for sale

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£12Price

Beautiful bantam mum with 15 Pekin bantam chicks for sale Can sell chicks as each £12 or full set 15 chicks and mum for £200 Based in se9 No time wasters plz also if not available I will remove the

LondonGreater London
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Mixed Silkie Hatching aEggs

Chickens

1 dayAge
MixedSex
£2Price

Hi, I’ve got Silkie hatching eggs available at £2 each plus postage. They come from 7 different colour pens: cuckoo, mottled, buff, splash, red, red pyle, and mixed, so there’s a really nice variety o

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CrookCounty Durham
5.0
Chickens poultry Day old buff Orpington chicks - Advert 3
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Day old buff Orpington chicks

Chickens

4 monthsAge
MixedSex
£12Price

Day old buff Orpington chicks available, please make sure u have brooders/setups before enquiring, I just also stress, please only message with genuine interest, all healthy stunning chicks

StaffordStaffordshire
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Five Plymouth Rock cockerels for sale.

Chickens

7 weeksAge
MaleSex
£15Price

Five Plymouth Rock (pure breed) cockerels for sale. Hatched from chicks. They are all now 7 weeks old. Ready to go to be with their own flock of hens! All boys have a friendly temperament and have bee

ChesterfieldDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Pekins - Advert 5
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Pekins

Chickens

1 yearAge
FemaleSex
£30Price

Beautiful Pekin girls available, all colours are £35 each. Apart from the black hens, these are now £30 each! Age in this advert isn’t correct!! These hatched end November - beginning of December. Please message me with any questions or to arrange viewing/collection!

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.0
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Columbian Blacktail Auto Sexing Hatching Eggs x 6

Chickens

1 weekAge
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 laye

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StroudGloucestershire
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friendly rooster

Chickens

5 monthsAge
MaleSex
£40Price

young rooster free to good home ,gentleman with his ladies and likes a cuddle ,only reason i have to rehome him is because i already have a rooster

GooleEast Riding of Yorkshire
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Rare breed bantam cockerels - free to a good home!

Chickens

10 monthsAge
MaleSex
£0Price

Available separately (or in pairs if you have a large flock). Free to Good Home – 5 Rare Breed Bantam Cockerels I’m looking for kind, responsible homes for 5 beautiful rare breed bantam cockerels. Th

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OxfordOxfordshire
Chickens poultry Bantam Silkie Hatching Eggs Collection/Posted - Advert 9
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Bantam Silkie Hatching Eggs Collection/Posted

Chickens

10 weeksAge
MixedSex
£20Price

6 Bantam Silkie Hatching Eggs – Proven Fertile – Mixed Colours Fresh Bantam Silkie hatching eggs laid each day from a proven fertile flock. Our flock is healthy, well cared for, and kept in line with current avian influenza biosecurity requirements. Colours within the flock include: Lavender splash, lavender, white, black, light brown and dark brown. Eggs are sold stric

BicesterOxfordshire
Chickens poultry Lavender Pekin bantam cockerel  - Advert 10
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Lavender Pekin bantam cockerel

Chickens

6 monthsAge
MaleSex
£20Price

He was hatched in October last year. A beautiful cockerel but the neighbours don’t like the noise so he has to go unfortunately. I can provide hatching eggs with him too if you’d like.

GainsboroughLincolnshire
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Broody silkie x hen with chicks

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£150Price

I have for sale a white silkie cross hen with 15 silkie cross chicks she’s a brilliant mum all chicks are eating well and healthy £150 for the family

LichfieldStaffordshire
Chickens poultry £2 /each hatching eggs mixed and pure breed  - Advert 12
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£2 /each hatching eggs mixed and pure breed

Chickens

8 monthsAge
MixedSex
£2Price

available for collection or ready for delivery 4 brahma eggs £3/each 6 pekin bantam eggs £3/each 6 olive eggers eggs £3/each 20 mixed breed (lucky dip ) £2/each postage ,next day delivery with royal mail High-quality fertile hatching eggs available from healthy, well-cared-for chickens. Our birds are regularly checked and kept in clean, spacious conditions to ensure

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RomfordGreater London
5.0
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Bantam Pair Barbu de grubbe rumpless

Chickens

1 yearAge
MixedSex
£30Price

Year old pair of Barbu de Grubbe rumpless bantams.Jack and Jill are garden reared ornamental bantams. If you dont know the breed this means they are about the size of a jackdaw. Jack has beautiful plu

ElyCambridgeshire
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Pure breed cream legbar and others available

Chickens

8 monthsAge
MixedSex
£20Price

Cream legbar cockerel and hens available as well as cross breeds..cream legbar cockerel and and cream legbar hens and legbar cross breeds £20 each Cockerel will be free with hens 16 months old

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LiversedgeWest Yorkshire
Chickens poultry Araucana chickens - Advert 15
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Araucana chickens

Chickens

11 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Beautiful Araucana hens available!! These blue egg layers are only left available in black at only £20 each! 1 white, 1 lavender and 3 mottled available 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

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.0
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Brahma

Chickens

7 monthsAge
MixedSex
£50Price

Lots of different colour Brahmas available!! These beautiful chickens are £50 each and ready now! Many other breeds available too, as well as ducks and guinea fowl! Bedding and feed available also! Please message with any questions or to arrange viewing/colection

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St NeotsCambridgeshire
5.0
Chickens poultry Welsummers large fowl - Advert 17
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Welsummers large fowl

Chickens

7 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
5.0
Chickens poultry Light Sussex exhibition large fowl - Advert 18
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Light Sussex exhibition large fowl

Chickens

7 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
5.0
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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.