I lost my ancient hen today
, she was 10 years and 8 months. I started with 3 hens in 2009, 2 lived until they were 9 years and the last has just died. She had been very doddery for a while and in the last few days one of the other hens kept picking on her and knocking her over. I separated her from the others for a while but she wasn't happy so I let her back out, she had to be picked up a few times and in the end I brought her in. She just faded away. Poor old girl, I guess it comes to us all eventually. She's the top one in the picture.