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My chicken Ewa is ten years old! (She's Polish, so of course that's how her name is spelled.)
I don't believe I've ever heard of a chicken living that long. She's a pet, obviously. Very friendly, comes when I call, and still keeps her place in the pecking order. I have two other layers, and some who haven't started laying yet. All are Polish.
And today she laid an egg, by golly!
Does anyone else have old birds?
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We have two almost 10-year-old Jersey Giant girls and two Brahmas that are just a bit younger, but none of them are laying eggs. Blackie, one of the Jersey Giants, does still go broody from time to time. She's a great mother!
 
How nice must, be a combination of great genes and wonderful care to get her to this point. And then she lays an egg on top of it. Does she have any offspring? I wonder if they will also have long lives.
 
I have no roosters, so she's never had offspring. And I have to admit that luck had a lot to do with her longevity. Over the years we've seen raccoons, possums, etc., and I've lost a few chickens. Once when Ewa was only about a year old, something picked her up and flew off with her--but dropped her! I heard the commotion and ran out. I found her lying on her back under a tree by my house. I thought she was a goner, but when I tried to pick her up she jumped up! She had a little wound on her back. I applied antibiotic ointment and kept her in the house overnight. In the morning she was fine!
 
I almost forgot Lady Oreo! She's a light Brahma who hatched Christmas Day nine years ago. She hasn't laid any eggs in a couple of years, but for the last year or so she has started crowing! We have started calling her "Bruce."
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I have an EE hen, Emma, who is 7 years old as of last spring...and she's still going strong!!


 
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