Chickens

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So my friend and I have been playing for a while but we haven't really felt too much with the tamed animals all that much so I had a quick question

We just got chickens today and I want to find out if I put down a snack of say 100 seeds will they eat those seeds a little by little overlay eat it in one chunk cuz I'm going to lose all the seeds in one thing what's the best feeding pattern to make sure that fed by not overeating

[Steve]

They eat 1 food item at a time from a stack. (Dandelions are best IMO, save your seeds for farming/tree replacement)
Chickens will eat a seed every set time period if they can reach it.
If you are near them and they eat they will begin the breed state. You'll see hearts.
When breeding every three rooster crows (I think that's the value) they will lay an egg.
If you have a fire near the eggs, they will hatch into chicks in 2-3 days. If no fire, they will remain as eggs.
Chicks will eat the food, but do not lay eggs.
If there are too many mobs in the area near the chickens, they will stop breeding but continue to eat food.

I have found great success building an elevated egg farm. If you want chicken meat, warm some eggs and then butcher them.

This is the farm I use for eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klQg1f41U3c&t=634s

For meat, I have a small barn that is heated and will breed chickens or heat eggs in there, then slaughter them.

[Twinkies]

I have a screenshot of my hen house. It features my unique concept, where the key is to position the egg inside the box and allow it to hatch within that box.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3119366983

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Originally posted by Twinkies:

It didn't take me much time to realize that placing an egg in a 1x1 box, sealing it, allows the hen to grow perfectly inside. Once I grasped this concept, it was time to construct the hen house! Two hens, positioned side by side in crystal boxes with the bottoms removed, each situated above a pit about 10 meters deep. It was remarkably straightforward, almost irresistibly so.

should post a screen shot so we see what you did

[blackphoenixx]

Originally posted by Steve:

(Dandelions are best IMO, save your seeds for farming/tree replacement)

How so? I can grow seeds by the stack with 2 minutes of effort, why would i bother picking up tons of dandelions while out exploring?

It's bad enough i have to go out of my way for flowers and berries from 3 or 4 biomes ago to stay stocked on mead and food, i'd rather not gather tons more when i can just add an extra row of plants to my field and be done with it.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by blackphoenixx:

Originally posted by Steve:

(Dandelions are best IMO, save your seeds for farming/tree replacement)

How so? I can grow seeds by the stack with 2 minutes of effort, why would i bother picking up tons of dandelions while out exploring?

It's bad enough i have to go out of my way for flowers and berries from 3 or 4 biomes ago to stay stocked on mead and food, i'd rather not gather tons more when i can just add an extra row of plants to my field and be done with it.

Dandelions are all over the place in the meadows. When you go on a berry run you can grab dandelions at the same time. My farm patch in the meadows also has dandelions in it. I harvest dandelions by accident when I harvest my other crops. No sense wasting them by tossing them in the obliterator.