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If you let your chickens live out their natural life spans, you will eventually be over populated with a flock of non-laying or minimally laying hens. Which is fine if you don't want or need eggs and can afford to keep them indefinitely. Some say they have 8 or 9 year old hens. For myself, I do...

Was this necessary?

Not so. I rejected the one I was taught to believe; I now believe the one that makes sense to me. As should everyone. I should have added that if my chickens are not sick, they do get to live out their retirement in comfort, which I think was the point of the OP question. We do not cull them...

Whew. I am finally caught up. So this thread started out as an opinion thread, and I voted. And now I am going to ignore the side issues (fascinating as they were, cough) and answer the OP question. I have had a few chickens, over the last ten years, apparently die of old age. More likely, they...