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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 🖤🤎Black Copper Marans 🤎🖤 - Advert 1
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🖤🤎Black Copper Marans 🤎🖤

Chickens

2 daysAge
MixedSex
£10Price

(Dark speckled eggs!) Chicks will be unsexed and require heat for 6 weeks. 🐥 About Black Copper Marans: ✨ Stunning black feathers with rich copper highlights ✨ Calm, hardy, and great for all experience levels ✨ Famous for their deep dark brown eggs ✨ Strong, reliable layers with lovely temperaments Next to hatch: 🐣 Olive Eggers 🐣 Silkies 🐣Orpingtons 🐣cemanis

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GlossopDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Brahma ,silkie ,easter egger,pure and mixed breed - Advert 2
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Brahma ,silkie ,easter egger,pure and mixed breed

Chickens

5 daysAge
MixedSex
£3Price

fertile hatching eggs ,brahma ,silkie ,easter egger ,bluebell ,marans & mixed breed ,lucky dip eggs are collected daily and stored correctly please note fertility is high but cannot be 100% guaranteed due to postage /incubation factors collection preferred but can also posted in UK message for availability ,price and details

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RomfordGreater London
Chickens poultry Point of Lay Chickens - Over varieties- See video - Advert 3
121

Point of Lay Chickens - Over varieties- See video

Chickens

8 weeksAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Back in stock! We now have a wide range of hybrids and pure breeds available. Point of lay hens in a variety of colours now for sale. Speckled, Bluebells, Black tails, Sussex, Marigolds, Rhode rocks and many others. These girls are fully vaccinated and ready to start laying at their new homes.Lots of new colours and varieties including olive, blue and dark brown layers.

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NewentGloucestershire
Chickens poultry Blue & Green Egg Genetics Chicks, Reared with Love - Advert 4
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Blue & Green Egg Genetics Chicks, Reared with Love

Chickens

2 weeksAge
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 POL 17 week old hybrid pullets in Ashbourne - Advert 5
21

POL 17 week old hybrid pullets

Chickens

5 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Lots of lovely 17 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. 10% off for 6 or more. More info at www.thebuckfarm.co.uk

AshbourneDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Chicks an Ducklings in a range of breeds  - Advert 6
31

Chicks an Ducklings in a range of breeds

Chickens

1 dayAge
FemaleSex
£10Price

We have a great range of Chicks and Ducklings hatching all the time, we offer full starter sets for £69, this is for the cage, feeder, drinker and feed. Chicks are priced at £8-14 each depending on the breed, Ducklings are priced at £10-25 depending on sex and breed 🙂 Please note that it’s collection only and we don’t sell single birds. We have a fantastic selection o

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CoalvilleLeicestershire
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Chickens poultry Hybrid chicks - Advert 1
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Hybrid chicks

Chickens

1 weekAge
MixedSex
£10Price

HYBRIDS Hi for sale i have Blue laced red Wyandotte x hybrid chicks £10 per chick these are exceptional layers and have laid all through winter ❄️ perfect for backyard flocks friendly and sweet nature

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WelwynHertfordshire
Chickens poultry Point of lay Hens in a wide range of breeds  - Advert 2
11

Point of lay Hens in a wide range of breeds

Chickens

4 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£0Price

Point of lay fully vaccinated, wormed and treated for mites/lice. These Hens vary in price depending on breeds, you can find all of these on our New Cottage Poultry Website 🙂 We have a fantastic selection of all types of Poultry in stock, Hens, Ducks, Geese, Quail, Turkeys, Chicks, Ducklings and more. Our shop is fully stocked with everything you need to keep your bird

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CoalvilleLeicestershire
Chickens poultry Silkeiea chicken in Ripley - Advert 3
21

Silkeiea chicken

Chickens

5 monthsAge
MixedSex
£100Price

I have 7 silkies chicken for salle 3 roosters and 4 hens 5 months old i sell all together 100£.

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RipleyDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Chicks and fertilised eggs for sale in Leicester - Advert 4
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Chicks and fertilised eggs for sale

Chickens

9 monthsAge
MixedSex
£20Price

We are hatching chicks soon and also selling eggs and fertilised eggs! Eggs are £2 for six Fertilised eggs are £3 for six Chicks are £20 per chick (price can be negotiated if theres a reason)

LeicesterLeicester
Chickens poultry Pekins, Polish, Silkies and other bantams - POL - Advert 5
151

Pekins, Polish, Silkies and other bantams - POL

Chickens

8 weeksAge
FemaleSex
£35Price

We have a beautiful selection of bantams available at the moment including Silkies, Pekins, Sablepoots and Polish. Prices vary depending on age and breed - please check website. Point of lay females available, vaccinated and health checked. Check stock and reserve via our website and arrange a time to visit. Three Shires Poultry is registered with APHA and DEFRA, and

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NewentGloucestershire
Chickens poultry Coloured hybrid hens at point of lay - Advert 6
17

Coloured hybrid hens at point of lay

Chickens

4 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£25Price

A great selection of hybrid hens All pol at 18-22 weeks Fully vaccinated Recently wormed Breeds lemon cuckoos Silver Sussex Millefluer leghorn (white egg layers) Mottled leghorns (white egg layers) Silver partridge leghorn (white egg layer) Burford browns (dark egg layers) Welsumer stars White stars (white egg layers) Ambers Lavender splash rocks Bluebelles Speckled

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ColchesterEssex
Chickens poultry 6 Mixed flock hatching eggs - Advert 7
7

6 Mixed flock hatching eggs

Chickens

Just BornAge
MixedSex
£12Price

Hatching eggs from Mixed flock - brahma, easter eggers, jersey giant, silkies, rangers. All live together.

WorcesterWorcestershire
Chickens poultry Chickens and chicks read description - Advert 8
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Chickens and chicks read description

Chickens

3 weeksAge
MixedSex
£20Price

Pekin £12 Hybrid chicks £10 3 weeks unsexed Day old silkie chicks £12 3 week old silkie chicks £16 Unsexed POL £20-£60 Pekin’s Orpingtons Brahmas Hybrid hens Pairs and Trios available Hatching eggs also available Day olds Quails available from day olds to laying hens

FarnboroughHampshire
Chickens poultry 2 x silkie lavender cockerel - -Free - Advert 9
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2 x silkie lavender cockerel - -Free

Chickens

4 monthsAge
MaleSex
£0Price

Two lavender silkie cockerels for sale. We are having to rehome 2 as we have too many cockerels to chickens. Had these guys since chicks from Durham hens so have had chick vaccinations. Friendly guys

PenrithWestmorland and Furness
Chickens poultry Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben bantam - Advert 10
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Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben bantam

Chickens

8 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£30Price

Beautiful Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben bantam hen available. She has striking white plumage with crisp black spangling, a neat forward-swept crest, and slate-blue legs — a real eye-catcher in any flock. Active, alert, and an excellent forager, this breed is known for its lively personality and elegant upright posture. A hardy and relatively rare Swiss breed, pe

BedfordBedford
Chickens poultry Silver Bielefelder Hatching Eggs x 6 - Advert 11
8

Silver Bielefelder Hatching Eggs x 6

Chickens

Just BornAge
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 goo

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SkegnessLincolnshire
Chickens poultry Ayam Cemani 🖤 - Advert 12
21

Ayam Cemani 🖤

Chickens

3 weeksAge
MixedSex
£20Price

Ayam Cemani chicks available. They will be unsexed as they are too young and from dark Fibro birds. The parents have no leakage and are on quality feed and supplements. They are raised in a house with family and animals and handled daily. Hatching next : Ayam Cemani Bcm (black copper Maran) Silkie Orpington’s Swedish flower hens Olive egger Cream legbar

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GlossopDerbyshire
Chickens poultry 9 Batam Pekins  - Advert 13
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9 Batam Pekins

Chickens

10 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Can be sold spertately for £20 each or them all for £150. Not sure on the exact birthdate, we got them last spring. They were all laying last year but have slowed down over the winter but some has sta

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SouthamptonSouthampton
Chickens poultry Cockerel needs rehoming!  - Advert 14
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Cockerel needs rehoming!

Chickens

6 monthsAge
MaleSex
£0Price

Lovely cockerel named Frank. Great temperament but the unfortunately he’s not able to stay due to the noise. Based in Bayford, Hertfordshire.

HertfordHertfordshire
Chickens poultry Silkie bantams all female - Advert 15
2

Silkie bantams all female

Chickens

4 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£30Price

Silkie bantams all female 5 months old vaccinated and wormed we have them in black, gold, gold partidge and white the are 30.00 each

RushdenNorth Northamptonshire
Chickens poultry Bantams fully vaccinated  - Advert 16
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Bantams fully vaccinated

Chickens

4 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£35Price

Available now fully vaccinated Polish bantams Laced polish bantams Pekin bantams Silkie bantams £35 each or 3 for £100 Bahamas Salmon Faverolles £45 each or 3 for £130 All fully vaccinated

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ShifnalShropshire
Chickens poultry Hybrid Hens Point of lay - Advert 17
11

Hybrid Hens Point of lay

Chickens

4 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Fully vaccinated point of lay Hybrids Hens. Available from 23rd February Wide selection; Light Sussex Speckled Rhode island hybrids Marigolds Blue bells Road rocks Welsummer hybrids White stars Silver Sussex Mottled legbars £20 each Crested cream legbars - blue egg Aracana hybrids - olive egg Copper maran hybrids - dark egg £30 each Carry home boxes availabile a

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ShifnalShropshire
Chickens poultry Warren hybrid female chicks  - Advert 18
2

Warren hybrid female chicks

Chickens

3 daysAge
FemaleSex
£3Price

Warren hybrid female chicks hatched on the 23/02/26 all lively, eating and drinking well. They are priced as follows Minimum of 3 at £5each 4 at £4 each 10 at £3.50 each 20 at £3.25 each 100 at £3 each Any questions please as Thank you

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PeterboroughPeterborough
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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.