chicken coop, and other pasture coops

[Blu]

I've built the coop, I have the recources, but no chickens seem to be about, no production of eggs either, how do I get that to work?

and also, how do I unlock the 3 grey pasture buildinds?

[KingKurtZig]

You sure there is a hunter nearby or the chickeds will get eaten by wild animals

I think you have to build a dock and buy the greyed out animals from abroad like in Banished

[Blu]

Hmm, maybe its not near enough. I did a bit of the tutorial and ya the grey boxes are unlocked when you build the dock. But damn, they need fencing in this game.

[Evelyn]

Right? Omg just build a gate guys lol. Have they fixed the issues with shepherds getting lazy?

[WarriorWench]

Having trouble getting chicken to breed, the carer kills the one chicken that spawns within minutes. How can I get more chickens?

[brulis2]

I had pretty successful chicken coop for a while (around 29-30 chickens). However I ran out of oats and they all starved. Now I can not get any chickens back in my coop. I have a farmer, but no chickens. Any ideas?

[cstoneburner]

build another coop and either wait for a second chicken in it and split them up or build/rebuild a second coop over and over and use that to force the creation of more chickens.

[Hubris423]

All my chickens starved to death, i built another well, I have oats and my farmer wont go refill the resources

[cstoneburner]

If all your chickens are dead they won't. To get more chickens you need a new coop . You can either destroy and rebuild or build elsewhere (building a small one elsewhere and transfering the chicken may make more sense if the original coop is large. )

[Nimmanu]

To be just a little more clear, you build a second coop, and then you use the relocate to other pastures function to move the chicken to your original coop. Destroy the new, now empty coop and do the same thing again until you have a good base stock of breeding chickens.

You can do this with all animal pens.

[Genesis24]

I can never seem to get more than one chicken in my coop. I have a hunter built close by, but every single time a wolf spawns in the chicken coop and kills my one chicken before they can breed. Any suggestions? I feel like I'm doing everything right, but they still always get killed. Does the town need to be built up around them first to reduce the spawning of wild animals in town?

[ix]

GeNesis: You have a few options.

- Clear trees as far from your coop as possible; animals only spawn among or near trees.

- Build a few coops, combine all of the chickens in one coop, then destroy all but one coop. Once you have enough chickens, the rate that they are lost will not outpace how quickly they reproduce.

- Employ at least 2 hunters, but 3 is better, to protect the chickens. Make sure the shack is as close to the coop as possible.

- It is possible, if you're vigilant, to manually kill animals before they attack your chickens by possessing a villager.

- You can build a fence with a gate (I haven't actually tried this)

My suggestion would be a combination of the first 3. Personally my village has a total population of about 70 and I have 3 coops totalling about 100 chickens, and 2 hunters shacks that do not even touch the coops, but I never lose chickens to wolves now.

[cstoneburner]

@GeNesis if the wolf is actually spawing inside you may just have to move the coop. The spawn points are fixed. Now, if you clear out all of the trees (make a forester nearby, staff it and set on cut only should do it) it will at least eventually stop activating.

[Genesis24]

I will give you suggestions a try. Thank you so much for your help! ^.^

[Ellie]

At the start your only choice is chicken but what a choice it is! Eggs gives vitamin C and E, while meat from slaughtering the chickens gives A & B. So if you only invest in chicken and potatoes all your vitamins are sorted!
However, getting chicken production up and running will take some time and need careful design. But the game has provided you with resources to survive the chicken transition time by giving you fish, bread and grain (fish gives A & E, bread D & E, and grains to start chicken reproduction ASAP).
I like to build 10 x 10 coop as soon as I get two fields and a house. YOU ACTUALLY DO NOT HAVE TO ASSIGN A WORKER THERE! All you have to do is to do is posses your teenager and make him/her bring the grain and water to the coop. You only need to bring it once in a while and its easy to monitor by clicking on a coop info - always make sure that there is grain and water in the coop. Since you only have one chicken to start with, it will last for a while and the chicken will reproduce itself without a worker in it. Of course you have to guard the chicken so keep an eye on all foxes and wolves - kill them if they are too close. If you loose your chicken you would need to deconstruct the coop and do it all over again. But if all is well and in the second year my coop is full I move my chickens to a proper size coop carefully designed. By proper design I mean I use terraforming to seclude the area (wild animals cant jump from heights or climb a cliff so I build the coops on something that resembles as island with only one tiny way in - next to that way I build a barn, well and grain field. Now your hunter have much easier job to do protecting your chickens.