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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🐔 Hy-Line Pullets Available 🐔 Looking for one of the best laying hens available? Our Hy-Line pullets are now 10 weeks old and developing beautifully. ✅ Renowned for excellent egg production ✅ Friendly, hardy and easy to manage ✅ Vaccinated against Marek's disease and Salmonella ✅ Healthy, well-cared-for birds Hy-Lines are one of the most popular commercial laying b

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🍗 Hubbard Table Birds Available 🍗 Looking for a quality table bird that's suited to a more natural pace of growth? Hubbards are a popular choice for smallholders who want excellent meat quality while giving their birds more time to develop and enjoy life outdoors. ✅ Slower-growing than intensive commercial birds ✅ Excellent meat quality ✅ Hardy and easy to rear ✅ Id
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Lavender, Millefleur, Golden Partridge and Black Mottled, Pekin Bantams. They have grown up together, and are now 3 months old. The cockerels are beautiful and would make a nice bachelor flock or for
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We hatched silkie eggs, but ended up with only two cockerels!! We live in the middle of a village, so cannot keep them sadly. They have been handled since hatching by the kids, so are not aggressive.
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20 silkie chicks available - week old and unsexed. Will need heat plate/lamp. Very healthy birds all eating and drinking independently.
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🐔 Pure Breed Chickens Available 🐔 We have a lovely range of pure breed chickens available, aged from 1 month old through to Point of Lay (POL). ✅ Guaranteed Females Available breeds: * LF Brahma
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mixed from different parents breed . Father is a silkie many chicks available all looking for a loving home . Chicks should lay different colour eggs and have unique personalities List of crosse
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Good layers of large brown eggs . Collect from winford near Bristol airport. Please bring cardboard box.
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🐔🐓 CHICKENS FOR SALE – ONLY £12 EACH! 🐓🐔 🌟 Various breeds available – all just £12 each! 🌟 🐔 Available breeds: * 🐓 Warrens × 3 * 🐓 Silkies × 2 * 🐓 Jersey Giant × 1 * 🐓 Buff Laced Wyandot
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Cutting down on my breeding groups for next year so selling some of this years birds that I have been growing out All POL/laying £10 per hen £25 for a trio of two hens and a cockeral Photo is jus
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I have 1 juvenile Buff Orpington cockerel left who is looking for a new home. Not for eating. Not free. Purebred, from unrelated parents, and raised through our community group. He is extremely friend

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🐓 LOVING HOME WANTED — APPENZELLER COCKEREL OR LITTLE FLOCK 🐔 South Wales Collection or delivery can be arranged We are looking for a loving permanent home for our beautiful one-year-old white A
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I have a batch of pullets available now to collect at Point of Lay, check us out on reviews via “Chickwood Poultry” on Facebook. Here is a price list AT POL : Light Sussex Hybrids - £20 Isabella L
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Beautiful serama cockerels , 2 frizzles and 1 straight. Feathered . Serama are the smallest chicken in the world, make lovely pets. Just can’t keep anymore cockerels. Free to good homes
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Mixed colours and sold unsexed. Stunning little babies all incubator hatched and looking strong and healthy.
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This sweet boy is absolutely gorgeous and he has a lovely temperament too! Deserves to have his own ladies 😍
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Day-Old Hubbard Chicks Available Now! 🐥 Looking for fast-growing, hardy table birds? Our day-old Hubbard chicks are now available and ready for their new homes! ✅ Excellent growth rates ✅ Strong a
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🐣 NEWLY HATCHED CHICKS AVAILABLE 🐣 We are delighted to share that we had one of our best hatching rates of 2026, and this is our last hatch of the year! 🎉 📅 Hatching Date: 28.09.2026 ✅ All chic
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We have two beautiful white cockerels available for sale. Their dad is a Lemon Millefleur Sablepoot and their mum is a white Emerald hen. They were born at end of a June/beginning of July this year an
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All farm bred, hatched & reared. First few starting to lay Olive eggers these have about a 85% chance of laying olive eggs otherwise brown. (Brown birds gold hackles and black birds silver hackles £3
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I have a beautiful Silkie cockerel looking for a good home, unfortunately he's not getting along with my other chickens I'd like him to go to a good home, he is a very friend cuck and comes when call
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These fertilised eggs are darker green and chocolate from F1 Marsbars (Marans x Legbars) & Marans and olive eggers hens and cockerels, so you will get a nice shell colour. The flock is of both breeds,
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Handsome little hybrid, hatched myself in July and got 5 roos 🙈 he's free to good home or dinner table just can't do it myself thanks for looking!
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Shamo hens and cockerels available Really good Strong birds Good bloodlines Red, black and wheaten colours available Hens £40 Cockerels £65