Oldest Hen Age and Breed

[EvieChickenGirl]

My oldest chicken I've ever had was 14 years old when she died of old age. She laid an egg on her death day . She was a Welsummer and I found her on the side of the road when she was a day old.

 

[my spoiled chickens]

My oldest was a Cherry egger roo who lived to be 8

 

[GodLovesU]

I have an Easter Egger hen and Barred Rock hen who are both ~10 years old.

 

[azygous]

The top pic is Lady Di who died just short of fourteen years. Here she is with her sleep guard since she had a bit of trouble balancing on her roost. The middle pic is Su-su, at age thirteen with the chicks she adopted and brooded. The last one is the old biddies club, Di, Su-su, and Lilith, who was twelve when she died.

 

[AusHen]

Eldest I have had reached 12, she was a wyandotte. The next eldest are 6-7+, purchased as adults so at least that old.

 

[BDutch]

My oldest was a Cherry egger roo who lived to be 8

First time I see someone writing Cherry egger. Knowing what the name Olive egger stands for I find this name misleading. The eggs are not reddish at all.
I know them as RIR or Red’s. My bantam Red is still young. She will be 4 yo the last day of April. 10 days later I hope to have double milestone. The fraternal Dutch twins Black and Pearl become 10 on the 10th of May.

 

[WhiskeyTheRedd]

My first two chickens ever made it the longest. I was just 8 when i got them.

We had Ms Hurty Hen, in account for how she was nearly picked to death in a weeks long Peking order struggle. SHe never grew back her feathers and had lost her comb. Then her boyfriend Harvey The Rooster. Both RIRs and lived until they were NINE. They sadly died in a coop attack by a racoon. First one ive EVER seen in my area. It was awful that they lived so long only to die like that ( it stilll hurts years later.

Both of them were still doing so well to!

 

[ChickenShepherd_6116]

My eldest's are two ISA Brown hens. They are 5 years old. How long do ISA's usually live?

 

[NatJ]

First time I see someone writing Cherry egger. Knowing what the name Olive egger stands for I find this name misleading. The eggs are not reddish at all.
I know them as RIR or Red’s.

Cackle Hatchery says they have been working with Cherry Eggers since 1936, which would be long before any of the now-common blue eggers, green eggers, and olive eggers were widely available.
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/cherry-eggers/

I think it's a case of a name that used to make sense (cherry colored chickens, good layers), at a point when there weren't many choices of egg color to talk about.

There are plenty of other names that no longer make sense in context of more genetic knowledge ("self blue" for lavender) or new naming conventions (Blue Laced Red is blue lacing on a red bird, Chocolate Laced Silver is chocolate lacing on a silver bird. But the older varieties Gold Laced and Silver Laced have black lacing on gold or silver birds, without mentioning the lacing color.)

 

[Auntiejessi3]

I think the oldest I've heard of was 12.

Thought you might enjoy this!
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.co...-usa-verified-as-worlds-oldest-chicken-739634