In chickens, feed conversion and poultry productive performance is strongly dependent on the gut microbiota and on adequate functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. In view of that, in the last years, great efforts have been driven to characterize the bacterial population in the chicken gut. However, despite the interdependence between bacterial and viral in the gut, remarkably little is known about the intestinal virome of poultry. In this study, a metagenomic sequencing approach was employed in attempting to identify viral communities in feces of healthy, 3-5 weeks-old chickens. Samples were collected from four high density poultry farming regions in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Intestinal contents of 20 healthy chickens were pooled, diluted 1:10 in PBS, clarified by centrifugation, filtered and submitted to ultracentrifugation to concentrate viral population. Nucleic acids were extracted, enriched and sequenced using the Illumina Miseq System. A total of 541,988 reads were assembled into 7,743 contigs using the Spades 3.5 and compared to available nucleotide and protein databases. Analyses with BLASTx revealed that 292 contigs (4%) were related to sequences of eukaryotic viruses. Viral genome sequences (total or partial) indicative of various known viral families, including Adenoviridae, Caliciviridae, Circoviridae, Parvoviridae, Picobirnaviridae, Picornaviridae and Reoviridae were identified. In addition, a number of viral genomes, particularly novel viruses with small circular DNA genomes, as well as novel genotypes were found. The characterization of the fecal virome of healthy chickens described here provides not only a description of the viruses encountered in such environment but may also may represent a baseline for future studies comparing viral populations in healthy and diseased chicken flocks.