My chickens are grumpy or thin every morning.

[jcorax]

I rush right out first thing to check on them, and they are mad at me. I have their coop fenced in to keep nasties away (and grass in), and I leave the chicken door open at night so they can get at the fresh grass as soon as they get up. I haven't seen any Special Chicken Feed for sale or anything, so maybe I have to unlock some mystery thing I don't know about yet? Maybe they are mad I left the door open???

[ChrillBill]

If they are thin they are definitely not getting their daily dose of food. Make sure to have hay in the coop. With the basic coop build you will have to refill hay manually. You do have a silo on the farm, right?

[DaTank]

You have to pet your animals every day, make sure they are fed every day and you don’t leave them outside overnight by closing the gate.

Doing this will ensure they will not be mad at you, if they are currently mad at you then doing the above for a couple days should correct their mood.

[ChrillBill]

I would also like to add to my previous post, the reason I asked about the silo. If you have a stocked up silo on the farm then you will have to take hay out of the hay hopper in the coop and place they hay on the feeding bench. This will be done automatically after a couple of coop upgrades :> Hay can be aquired either by cutting grass (but only if you have a silo built on the farm) or it can also be bought from Marnie, the greedy.

[jcorax]

Originally posted by ChrillBill:

I would also like to add to my previous post, the reason I asked about the silo. If you have a stocked up silo on the farm then you will have to take hay out of the hay hopper in the coop and place they hay on the feeding bench. This will be done automatically after a couple of coop upgrades :> Hay can be aquired either by cutting grass (but only if you have a silo built on the farm) or it can also be bought from Marnie, the greedy.

Oh man! I do have a silo, and I saw the hay in the hopper every morning and could pick it up, but had no idea what to do with it! I tried giving it direct to the chickens. This is the sort of thing that makes me grumpy. No visual affordance at all. I thought the bench was just for them to sit on....

I do pet my chickens, and I have fresh grass growing in a fenced-in area I made for them. So I didn't know why the one chicken was thin, when they both have access to fresh grass. But now I know about the hay thing for when I add more animals. If I do! I've already got so much going on....

[red255]

yeah hay needs to be in the feeder, but when you upgrade to level 3 it moves over automatically.

eventually Marnie sells an autograbber, and if you can get an auto petter from either skull cavern random chests or ...other means. you can ignore them for a long time.

I ignored my chickens for months and only visit them when gus wants an omelette pop in, loot the auto grabber, pop over to gus's and drop off 12 eggs.

[jcorax]

Originally posted by red255:

yeah hay needs to be in the feeder, but when you upgrade to level 3 it moves over automatically.

eventually Marnie sells an autograbber, and if you can get an auto petter from either skull cavern random chests or ...other means. you can ignore them for a long time.

I ignored my chickens for months and only visit them when gus wants an omelette pop in, loot the auto grabber, pop over to gus's and drop off 12 eggs.

Haha! I am already hitting the point where I barely even check the calendar. Birthdays? Who cares I have mines to explore. It's a good thing the game is parsimonious with quests or I'd go nuts. I feel like I have to get to the bottom of the mines now before I pursue much of anything else.

But then I did just get enough resources for my first house upgrade, right as the end of summer approaches. I'm not sure whether that's really late, really early, or pretty much where most people do it. I prioritized upgrading all my tools to copper first, though....

[red255]

I personally only upgrade the pick and axe. eventually like fall/winter I get to the otherstuff.

I get my silo, then my coop then my barn so I can get a greenhouse first. so after a while I get to the house, probably fall. might add some additional silos to help me get thru winter.

the house upgrades are nice and I get to them eventually, but I start on the animals first and the barn and coop take a decent amount of time and trips to Robins.

[ThePiggyIsUpset]

Originally posted by DaTank:

You have to pet your animals every day

Doing this will ensure they will not be mad at you, if they are currently mad at you then doing the above for a couple days should correct their mood.

I'm not sure about that, I got a pig that I pet every day and he still is mad and boohooing about me somehow