We have 6 hens of varying ages, 2-10 years, all different breeds. We let them out of the their pen/coop every afternoon for supervised (he have a lot of hawks) foraging time.
Yesterday Dora, a 'Production Red' found a harmless little Dekay's Brown Snake about 10" long and took off running with...
I've had hens about 4 years. They are all different breeds. My first ones were given to me when they were a few months old then I've raised some from 2 day old chicks. I used BYC to learn about the breeds when I was buying chicks and also for coop designs when I was building a new, bigger coop...