Gary K. Smith / Domestic Welsummers bantam chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) with one-day chicks, Norfolk, UK September

Gary K. Smith / Free-range chickens and raised chicken coop in frosty weather, Norfolk, UK. November.

Nigel Cattlin / White finisher meat chickens being reared for meat, feeding in experimental chicken house with wood shavings on the floor, Dorset, UK.

Nigel Cattlin / Broiler meat chicks, aged 7 days, on sawdust flooring in a chicken house, Dorset, UK. December.

Ingo Bartussek / Paw of Raccoon (Procyon lotor) stealing hen egg from chicken coop. Introduced species. Germany.