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Chickens Poultry for sale

30 Chickens Poultry for sale in Stroud, Gloucestershire

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 Laying hens for sale - Advert 1
7

Laying hens for sale

Chickens

10 monthsAge
MixedSex
£25Price

Mixed hens all laying Mixture of Cream legbar Copper maran Cuckoo maran Other hybrid layers available

MalvernWorcestershire (27.1mi)
Chickens poultry Point of Lay Chickens - Over varieties- See video - Advert 2
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 (14.7mi)
Chickens poultry 6 Bantam Polish Hatching Eggs - Advert 3
6

6 Bantam Polish Hatching Eggs

Chickens

4 daysAge
MixedSex
£20Price

Fresh Bantam Polish 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: Buff Laced: Light gold/tan feathers with white lacing. Silver Laced: White feathers with black edging. Golden Laced: Gold feathers with black edging. Whi

BicesterOxfordshire (46.7mi)
Chickens poultry Bantam Silkie Hatching Eggs Collection/Posted - Advert 4
14

Bantam Silkie Hatching Eggs Collection/Posted

Chickens

4 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 (46.7mi)
Chickens poultry Beautiful Bantam Silkie Chicks   - Advert 5
17

Beautiful Bantam Silkie Chicks

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£20Price

Beautiful Bantam Silkie Chicks I have beautiful and healthy Bantam Silkie chicks available. They are on heat, and feeding and drinking independently. These chicks are sold unsexed and come in a lovely range of colours including lavender, white and black, brown, lavender splash and partridge. Silkies are renowned for their gentle temperament and make excellent family pet

BicesterOxfordshire (46.7mi)
Chickens poultry Stunning Bantam Polish Chicks  - Advert 6
4

Stunning Bantam Polish Chicks

Chickens

4 daysAge
MixedSex
£20Price

I have beautiful and healthy Bantam Polish chicks available. They are on heat, and feeding and drinking independently. These chicks are sold unsexed and come in a lovely range of colours Buff Laced: Light gold/tan feathers with white lacing. Silver Laced: White feathers with black edging. Golden Laced: Gold feathers with black edging. White Crested Black: Solid black bod

BicesterOxfordshire (46.7mi)
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Chickens poultry Pekins, Polish, Silkies and other bantams - POL - Advert 1
151

Pekins, Polish, Silkies and other bantams - POL

Chickens

9 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 (14.7mi)
Chickens poultry 6 Mixed flock hatching eggs - Advert 2
7

6 Mixed flock hatching eggs

Chickens

5 daysAge
MixedSex
£12Price

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

WorcesterWorcestershire (30.7mi)
Chickens poultry Pekin Boys needing ladies of their own!  - Advert 3
10

Pekin Boys needing ladies of their own!

Chickens

5 monthsAge
MaleSex
£10Price

After my 10 yr old defied his parental instructions and left eggs under some girls, we had a late summer hatch of chicks. Subsequently for the 1st time ever we hatched nearly an entire clutch of coc

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BanburyOxfordshire (43.3mi)
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Chickens poultry Chickens for Rehoming FREE in Thatcham - Advert 4
4

Chickens for Rehoming FREE

Chickens

3 yearsAge
FemaleSex
£0Price

6 hens looking for a new home free of charge consists of 2 hybrids 1 white and 1 brown, 2 polish hens and 2 Belgian Barbu D'Uccles approx 3 years old all laying. Rehoming as giving up my allotment whi

ThatchamBerkshire (47.3mi)
Chickens poultry Isabella Brahma Cockerel  - Advert 5
3

Isabella Brahma Cockerel

Chickens

10 monthsAge
MaleSex
£5Price

Absolutely stunning Isabella Brahma cockerel available. We call him Mr Gorgeous, he has a great relaxed personality and doesn’t crow extensively (just in the morning). He is used to dogs and eats from

AbergavennyMonmouthshire (34.6mi)
Chickens poultry Pekin hatching eggs only!  - Advert 6
4

Pekin hatching eggs only!

Chickens

5 weeksAge
FemaleSex
£2Price

Millefleur Pekin and black Pekin hatching eggs. £2 each collection from near middle wallop Hampshire or can post at buyers expense. 🙂 6 black in the incubator all growing nicely. 11 out of 12 with th

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AndoverHampshire (48.7mi)
Chickens poultry Green & Blue Eggers – Confirmed Pullets - Advert 7
6

Green & Blue Eggers – Confirmed Pullets

Chickens

3 weeksAge
FemaleSex
£15Price

🐥💚💙 Green & Blue Eggers – Confirmed Pullets 💙💚🐥 3-week-old black girls ready for loving homes. Mums are olive green eggers and dad is a blue egger, so you can expect beautiful green to blue-tone

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RuardeanGloucestershire (16mi)
Chickens poultry Aseel x leghorn and aseel x light sussex chiks  - Advert 8
2

Aseel x leghorn and aseel x light sussex chiks

Chickens

7 weeksAge
MixedSex
£30Price

There are 14 chiks in total 8 are a day old And 6 are 3 weeks old All hybrids £30 each or 160 for all as they are rare

BristolBristol City (25.8mi)
Chickens poultry Hybrid Laying hens Lohman Browns - Advert 9
8

Hybrid Laying hens Lohman Browns

Chickens

1 yearAge
FemaleSex
£15Price

We are selling our flock as we are planning an extended trip abroad, so have 47 laying hens for sale, ready to go as soon as possible. If we could keep them we would, and will be restocking as soon as

Chipping NortonOxfordshire (31.9mi)
Chickens poultry Lovely Sussex hen - Advert 10
5

Lovely Sussex hen

Chickens

1 yearAge
FemaleSex
£25Price

Lovely Sussex hen. I'm having to sell her as I'm moving house and cant take her with me, She's called Flappy and hatched on her own from a box of ebay eggs. She's been with other hens but they bully h

Shepton MalletSomerset (41.1mi)
Chickens poultry Indio Gigante *LARGE BIRDS Portuguese bloodlines* - Advert 11
10

Indio Gigante *LARGE BIRDS Portuguese bloodlines*

Chickens

11 monthsAge
MixedSex
£100Price

They are from several different bloodlines and unrelated. I am taking orders for 2026. THE FIRST THREE PHOTOS ARE A TRIO I HAVE AVAILABLE. £295 FOR THE TRIO. Unrelated birds and ready to breed in th

CaldicotMonmouthshire (25.2mi)
Chickens poultry Rare Ayam Ketawa (Laughing Chickens) for Sale - Advert 12
4

Rare Ayam Ketawa (Laughing Chickens) for Sale

Chickens

10 monthsAge
MixedSex
£35Price

Rare Ayam Ketawa (Laughing Chickens) for Sale – Breeding Group! For sale: A fantastic small group of Ayam Ketawa – the famous Indonesian “laughing chickens” known for their incredible long, human-like

CaldicotMonmouthshire (25.2mi)
Chickens poultry 2 x Buff Orpington hens £20 each - Advert 13
4

2 x Buff Orpington hens £20 each

Chickens

3 yearsAge
FemaleSex
£20Price

Our broody hen hatched these 26th Aug 2021 I'm moving house so cant take them with me. They are sisters so need to be homed together. They are very friendly. One of them started laying again today

Shepton MalletSomerset (41.1mi)
Chickens poultry Bantam Polish Hatching Eggs Collection/Posted - Advert 14
3

Bantam Polish Hatching Eggs Collection/Posted

Chickens

4 weeksAge
MixedSex
£20Price

6 Bantam Polish Hatching Eggs – Proven Fertile – Mixed Colours Fresh Bantam Polish hatching eggs from a proven fertile flock. Birds are healthy, well cared for, and kept in line with current avian in

BicesterOxfordshire (46.7mi)
Chickens poultry 2 Purebred Cockerels - Advert 15
4

2 Purebred Cockerels

Chickens

6 monthsAge
MaleSex
£10Price

1 Black copper miran 1 rhode island red 6 Months old Open to sensible offers .......................

HerefordHerefordshire (29.9mi)
Chickens poultry Bantam cockerels: free to good home  - Advert 16
32

Bantam cockerels: free to good home

Chickens

9 monthsAge
MaleSex
£0Price

2 x ginger buff frizzle 1 x red pekin 1 x lemon pekin 1 x ginger buff pekin I have a selection of bantam cockerels available who are available for free (hatched 10th may). I am looking for good hom

OxfordOxfordshire (41.2mi)
Chickens poultry Chickens For Sale, Various Breeds - Advert 17
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Chickens For Sale, Various Breeds

Chickens

11 weeksAge
FemaleSex
£40Price

Pipinchick are a professional poultry rearer in the heart of Somerset. With over 20 years' experience rearing pure and rare breed poultry we are the U.K's number one trusted chicken retailer.All our h

BristolBristol City (25.8mi)
Chickens poultry Orpington English Rare Colour - Advert 18
6

Orpington English Rare Colour

Chickens

6 monthsAge
MixedSex
£30Price

Show pure breed lines big old English Orpington - Chocolate Cockerel (born in February 2025) £30. Mix breed Orpington - Chocolate/black splashed pullet with cockerel (born in August 2025) selling fo

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WitneyOxfordshire (31.5mi)

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.