Who is your oldest chicken (or poultry)?

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Here is Red....she's 13. I took this photo of her just this afternoon.

 

[Stephine]

My eight large breed hens that I received as chicks from Cackle Hatchery in April 2016 are my oldest collectively. They include 3 Cuckoo Marans, 2 Buff Orpingtons, 1 Austra White, 1 Turken and 1 Golden Laced Wyandotte. They are still healthy and continued laying eggs through last fall. And I have 14 Bantam hens that I also received from Cackle Hatchery in March 2017 that are still going strong including 5 Barred Rocks, 4 Old English Game Creles, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Partridge Cochins and 1 Dominique. They make a pretty flock.

Wow, that is astonishing longevity! may I ask you what you are doing for them?
I only have two left from my 14 hens I got in Spring 2016, none of my 3 2017 hens… but then mine had a lot of stress with wildfires and evacuation…

 

[Chicken Heel]

Wow, that is astonishing longevity! may I ask you what you are doing for them?
I only have two left from my 14 hens I got in Spring 2016, none of my 3 2017 hens… but then mine had a lot of stress with wildfires and evacuation…

Quality feed, plenty of greens, fresh water and fresh air. Since this original post, I have lost one of the Buff Orpingtons, one Crele bantam, one of the RI bantams, and the Dominique bantam over the winter. And amazingly, two of the Cuckoo Marans and the one Austra White have begun laying again. I have never had any hens this old to lay eggs and I have been keeping chickens for over a half century.

 

[MamaPoult]

WOw!! Thats old! My boy made it to 5 and then had to get put down of old age. He had a hard life before I bought him though

 

[Insnesnakos]

I have a buff orpington who's turning 8 this year
Everyone loves her

 

[Sally PB]

My 3 oldest hens turn a comparatively young 4 years old tomorrow.

 

[TaylorGlade]

Our oldest, our Lavender Amerecauna, turned one this week! Happy Birthday, Sweetie! I sure hope she makes it as long as your girl. She a girl with sass that takes no guff off the boys and I love her for it! LOL

 

[SandyRiverChick]

I can't believe 11 and 13! Unreal. I have a 6 year old right now. I've never had one that lived past 7 and I thought it just couldn't be a better chicken life than here in the Mt. Hood Nat'l forest.... It might be that I always get them from a large Hatchery (Privett.) And interestingly enough, my 6 year old did not come from a large Hatchery (local lady.)

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

I have three hens who are seven, a Java, a Wyandotte, and an EE. I just lost one of my other seven year olds a few weeks ago to canker, but those three are still going strong. I also have six six year old hens, two Wyandottes, two Delawares, and two EE's, one of whom is blind. One of the Delawares still lays every other day.

 

[BY Bob]

Hattie is my oldest, she's 5.5 years old.

She suffers from arthritis and can be seen relaxing from time to time around the yard.