How long do chickens live?

[TwoCrows]

Our hens are short living hens

They've only lived up to like 7 years!?

we don't kill them or anything so I wonder why they are dying so early

Many production breeds don't even make it this long.

7 years is a good long life for the average chicken. Some can live a lot longer, but they don't all live into their teens.

 

[Shadow920]

as long as they stay healthy do my banties have the potential to live as long as an average sized chicken. i have a japanese bantam, sebrights and some mixes of the two.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

as long as they stay healthy do my banties have the potential to live as long as an average sized chicken.  i have a japanese bantam, sebrights and some mixes of the two. 

I'm my flocks they seem to be about the same.

 

[Shadow920]

I'm my flocks they seem to be about the same.

good i love my banties. i love all my birds but my banties are the babies of my flock. they're spoiled rotten.

 

[Cole405]

I once had a hen I loved like a friend. But she got sick and died. I got her late November 2014 and she died late November 2015

 

[TwoCrows]

I once had a hen I loved like a friend. But she got sick and died. I got her late November 2014 and she died late November 2015

Seems like we always loose our favorites first and sooner than the others. I am so sorry.

 

[Cole405]

thanks

 

[dishpanhanzs]

Here is my oldest white leg horn hen. She is over 17 yrs old. She looks a little "rough" & I have been thinking, (every day for the last 3 years), that she is going to die today. She is still here and happy!
P.S. She still lays an egg about once a week.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Here is my oldest white leg horn hen. She is over 17 yrs old. She looks a little "rough" & I have been thinking, (every day for the last 3 years), that she is going to die today. She is still here and happy! P.S. She still lays an egg about once a week.

That's one extraordinary chicken, wow.

 

[Ballerina Bird]

Here is my oldest white leg horn hen. She is over 17 yrs old. She looks a little "rough" & I have been thinking, (every day for the last 3 years), that she is going to die today. She is still here and happy!
P.S. She still lays an egg about once a week.

Wow, bless her heart!