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Originally Posted by richardb

Looks really nice. I like your comment about the chicken! We have one last hen left, and she’s 11! And as you say she still looks as fit as a fiddle getting under your feet when she’s out in the garden. We lost our cockerel about 18 months ago and he was the same age the hen.

They say they’re flock animals and can’t survive on their own...well, Emilia has thrived! She loves being on her own and each winter I wonder if she’ll come out of it and she bounces back every spring, laying again and full of chatter and demanding her treats when she hears me coming.
She could go a lot longer then if your hen is 11 and I really wouldn’t be surprised. We’re letting her enjoy her ‘retirement’ with lots of warm porridge mash in the winter and her regular veggies.