Chickens

[barbaraclubb]

What colors are the new chickens? Does anybody know? I have purchased chicks and also waited for new chicks to be born to see if they are different colors when thy grow to adulthood, but so far they continue to be all the same color.

[Capuzzi09]

Best would probably be to visit the local chicken dealer in your game and look at the hens there. That way you would see it with your own eyes.
I guess it's better than anybody else telling you they're brown-ish and white.

[Goldi_Toplitz]

I had some black ones recently. It's a random chance. What worked really nicely for me was buying some in Borowo and then taking a look at the new ones that spawned in.

[Capuzzi09]

Brilliant idea, didn't think of that :)

Would waiting for the next season do the trick as well? I mean - usually new stuff spawns in after season change, right?

[oetzina]

I saw some white ones and black ones in Rolnica.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2797822515

[Goldi_Toplitz]

Originally posted by Capuzzi09:

Brilliant idea, didn't think of that :)

Would waiting for the next season do the trick as well? I mean - usually new stuff spawns in after season change, right?

From what I have seen it works like with horse colours.

[barbaraclubb]

Thank you for the pic! I have been checking the chickens in both Rolnica and Borowa for several seasons with no luck. And all my chicks born have been brown. I will try building another coop and buying all the chickens in one town and see if the next season different colors pop up. Good suggestion.

[Milinia]

Originally posted by barbaraclubb:

Thank you for the pic! I have been checking the chickens in both Rolnica and Borowa for several seasons with no luck. And all my chicks born have been brown. I will try building another coop and buying all the chickens in one town and see if the next season different colors pop up. Good suggestion.

It was the same for me. 8 Years of chicken buying, selling and hatching and I only ever got the brown ones. All the chickens in Rolnica and Borowa where brown too.

Yesterday I started a new game and low and behold, first thing I noticed where white and black chickens in Rolnica. Made me happy :)

[Summanus]

Do the chickens still ignore all enclosures and go wandering off around your village like they own the place?

[Capuzzi09]

Originally posted by antlucasexe:

Do the chickens still ignore all enclosures and go wandering off around your village like they own the place?

No, they stay inside the fences, as all other farm animals also do.

[DragonOwl1206]

Originally posted by antlucasexe:

Do the chickens still ignore all enclosures and go wandering off around your village like they own the place?

Mine all stay in their fenced area

[Summanus]

Thats good. I'm glad they fixed that. It was like living in Orwell's Animal Farm before; coming home after a hard day in the fields to find a chicken in my house masquerading as my child, while my real toddler was off drinking himself senseless down the pub every night and staggering home at midnight in a drunken haze.... Those were the days

[Morri]

Originally posted by antlucasexe:

coming home after a hard day in the fields to find a chicken in my house masquerading as my child, while my real toddler was off drinking himself senseless down the pub every night and staggering home at midnight in a drunken haze.... Those were the days

Haha.

[Summanus]

Originally posted by Capuzzi09:

Originally posted by antlucasexe:

Do the chickens still ignore all enclosures and go wandering off around your village like they own the place?

No, they stay inside the fences, as all other farm animals also do.

Originally posted by Dragonmum1611:

Originally posted by antlucasexe:

Do the chickens still ignore all enclosures and go wandering off around your village like they own the place?

Mine all stay in their fenced area

Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong then because the pigs in my village are roaming all over the place outside their fenced area and their handler is chasing them around the streets - in fact, the fenced-in area containing their pigsty (which has no means of escape) is the one place they never go (unless I happen to return to the village at night, in which case they are asleep in there).

[Morri]

Originally posted by antlucasexe:

Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong then because the pigs in my village are roaming all over the place outside their fenced area and their handler is chasing them around the streets - in fact, the fenced-in area containing their pigsty (which has no means of escape) is the one place they never go (unless I happen to return to the village at night, in which case they are asleep in there).

Maybe it's not you doing something wrong, but maybe you just have very intelligent pigs? :-)

But in all seriousness, do you have a gate in your fenced off area? If not, try adding a gate; maybe the problem is that they spawned outside once and now can't get back in and get placed outside automatically every time?

[Summanus]

Originally posted by Morri:

Originally posted by antlucasexe:

Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong then because the pigs in my village are roaming all over the place outside their fenced area and their handler is chasing them around the streets - in fact, the fenced-in area containing their pigsty (which has no means of escape) is the one place they never go (unless I happen to return to the village at night, in which case they are asleep in there).

Maybe it's not you doing something wrong, but maybe you just have very intelligent pigs? :-)

But in all seriousness, do you have a gate in your fenced off area? If not, try adding a gate; maybe the problem is that they spawned outside once and now can't get back in and get placed outside automatically every time?

That does actually seem to have worked. Thank you for the suggestion The gate seems to be actually preventing them from escaping.

Strange that an enclosure with a gate that can easily be pushed open contains them when a fully enclosed fence won't, but oh well, at least I have a solution now.