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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 🩶🧡DAY OLD ORPINGTONS🧡🩶 - Advert 1
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🩶🧡DAY OLD ORPINGTONS🧡🩶

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

🐣 Day-old chicks available 🐣 Buff Orpingtons & Silver Laced Orpingtons – From large, friendly parent birds – Well handled from hatch – Raised on high-protein feed with added vitamins 🔸 Unsexed 🔸 Will require heat for approx. 6 weeks Also available: • Cream Legbars • Black Copper Marans • Olive Eggers • Silkies & USA Silkies • Ayam Cemani Message for availability an

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GlossopDerbyshire
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🩶🧡Buff Orpington & Silver Laced chicks 🧡🩶

Chickens

6 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
Chickens poultry 🤍Day old USA Silkies 🤍 - Advert 3
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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
Chickens poultry Show Quality Hatching Eggs Various Breeds  - Advert 4
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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
Chickens poultry Various Bantam Cockerels For Sale - Advert 5
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Various Bantam Cockerels For Sale

Chickens

1 yearAge
MaleSex
£10Price

All very well bred, show standard, Bantam cockerels for sale in a variety of breed, All home hatched last year and reared to pick our keepers for this season, Vaccinated, wormed, well kept, ready to run with their own ladies, Discounts available on the lot, Black pekin, cuckoo pekin, black silkies, blue silkie, polish, Dutch bantam, game cockerels all £10-£15 and Larg

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IlkestonDerbyshire
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🖤 Black Copper Maran chicks (dark eggs) 🖤

Chickens

5 daysAge
MixedSex
£8Price

Dark 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 leve

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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 POINT OF LAY HENS  - Advert 3
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POINT OF LAY HENS

Chickens

5 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£15Price

Point of lay hens for sale Warrens £15 Light Sussex £20 White stars £20 Bluebells £20 Message if interested

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DerbyDerby
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Four Plymouth Rock cockerels for sale.

Chickens

9 weeksAge
MaleSex
£5Price

Four Plymouth Rock (pure breed) cockerels for sale. Hatched from chicks. They are all now 9 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 🖤Ayam Cemani Breeding group 🖤 - Advert 5
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🖤Ayam Cemani Breeding group 🖤

Chickens

1 yearAge
MixedSex
£170Price

Beautiful friendly trio of Ayam Cemani 🖤 I have hatched gorgeous chicks off these guys this summer and they are now ready for their new home The price is for 2 laying hens and proven cockerel. (I d

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GlossopDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Cocks in confinement due to crimes of passion - Advert 6
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Cocks in confinement due to crimes of passion

Chickens

9 monthsAge
MaleSex
£10Price

These boys cannot live in harmony together so I am looking for new homes where they can be head honcho in charge of their own lady harem..they are all handsome brutes when not in combat. The white one

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ChesterfieldDerbyshire
Chickens poultry .Barbu d’Uccle,Pekin hatching eggs - Advert 7
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.Barbu d’Uccle,Pekin hatching eggs

Chickens

10 monthsAge
MixedSex
£18Price

Barbu d’Uccle Mille fleur and Lavender Pekin hatching eggs. £18 for 6 eggs. Collection Ashbourne or can post Monday-Thursday tracked 24 hr in protective poly box £6. Postage can affect hatching rat

AshbourneDerbyshire
Chickens poultry x2 Polish Cockerels - Advert 8
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x2 Polish Cockerels

Chickens

9 monthsAge
MaleSex
£0Price

x2 Polish Cockerels free to a good home. Can go together or separate. Would be very happy with some girls of their own. Only selling due to having too many cockerels.

BelperDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Bantams  - Advert 9
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Bantams

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

Unsexed bantams frizzles and pekins ready to go now all off heat so ready to go , collection only Beautiful chicks

ChesterfieldDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Two beautiful friendly showgirl chickens in lay - Advert 10
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Two beautiful friendly showgirl chickens in lay

Chickens

1 yearAge
FemaleSex
£25Price

These two girls live free range in my garden. They are called Bingo and Bluey and are beautiful friendly pets, who lay eggs lol. One is a silkie and the other polish crossed with naked Neck. Best home

DerbyDerby
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🩶USA & STANDARD SILKIE CHICKS 🩶

Chickens

6 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 available for the perfect mixed flock 🤍�

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GlossopDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Mixed chicks and ducklings  - Advert 12
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Mixed chicks and ducklings

Chickens

2 weeksAge
MixedSex
£5Price

Indian runner ducklings £10 each Various chicks mix and match 3 for £15 Chicks and ducklings at various ages so please message to enquire

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BelperDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Derbyshire redcap hatching eggs - Advert 13
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Derbyshire redcap hatching eggs

Chickens

2 weeksAge
MixedSex
£2Price

Derbyshire redcap eggs available A chance to get some good examples of a rare native breed. Nr Ashbourne or can post royal mail 1st class. £2.50 an egg postage (50% fertility guaranteed ive been

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AshbourneDerbyshire
Chickens poultry 12 Chicks - Mixed breed  - Advert 14
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12 Chicks - Mixed breed

Chickens

5 weeksAge
MixedSex
£8Price

11 mixed breed chicks, assortment of colours! Very pretty! 1 pure bred Barbu D’Uccle bantam chick. Millefleur colour. All very happy and healthy. Unsexed Still under heat at night, and still kept

MatlockDerbyshire
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Silkie hatching eggs

Chickens

5 weeksAge
MixedSex
£15Price

Hatching eggs mixed colour £15 for 6eggs, can post tracked 24hr £6. The pen is a mix of black, white and gold hens with a white and splash cockerel.

AshbourneDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Serama eggs - Advert 16
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Serama eggs

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£10Price

6x fertile eggs Collection only Somercotes,Derbyshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

AlfretonDerbyshire
Chickens poultry 6 x Buff Orpington hatching eggs - Advert 17
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6 x Buff Orpington hatching eggs

Chickens

3 weeksAge
MixedSex
£18Price

6 hatching eggs available for collection from DE6 Ellastone or post at cost (free for 12 or more eggs). The eggs are from our flock of 20 lovely friendly hens that run with 2 cockerels. Fertility is

AshbourneDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Polish, Silkie and Pekin bantam Hatching Eggs  - Advert 18
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Polish, Silkie and Pekin bantam Hatching Eggs

Chickens

6 yearsAge
MixedSex
£2Price

Pure Polish and Silkie bantam hatching eggs. Silkie X Pekin bantam hatching eggs for sale. High rates of fertility with them all. Mixed colours. 50% chance of frizzle with the Polish bantam.

MatlockDerbyshire
Chickens poultry Sold old Female Ayam Cemani - 7 weeks old  - Advert 19
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Sold old Female Ayam Cemani - 7 weeks old

Chickens

7 monthsAge
FemaleSex
£35Price

I have 7 female Ayam cemanis (second photos - 2 that appear possible males), off heat between 6-7 weeks old. Parents are dark fibro and owned by me and have no leakage.

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GlossopDerbyshire

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.