Chickens

[SassyPants]

I have purchased about 4 or 5 eggs and each time they hatch the chick disappears. It costs 1500 gold coin for one egg so I hope you can understand my frustration when I say what is the issue?!! I even built a pin around it so it couldn't walk into the fire and checked on it regularly. Signed off and my friends tell me before they signed off they went to check on it and it was just gone. It takes so much time to get that much coin and now we're down to nearly nothing. What can we do?

[Dwarflord]

Chickens are escape artists...they hatch as chicks outside of pens all the time. Make a pen. Make a pen around that pen. Then make a pen around that. Put the fire up on a raised earth column or a stone pillar so chickens cannot possibly get to it. Put a roof on the building, but design a chimney or smoke collection system. Seem like overkill? Maybe, but chickens belong in Supermax.

[Damnion]

My coop is a double height stone wall affair with a wooden door in one corner and stone pavers for flooring. I still find the occasional chicken wandering my base. I have some 1x2 meter boxes with 2 chickens a piece feeding eggs into the coop from well above so they don't stop producing eggs until they run out of seeds.

[DeMasked]

I just use earthen walls to enclose the chickens. Haven't had an issue yet. Might create another chicken farm up top Yagluth's altar where new chicks fall down to the pen below on his summon stone.

Saw a video of someone using the obliterator as a way to mass kill chickens. May have to investigate that further.

[Yurtin]

I just throw my eggs next to my main fire and let the chickens roam about.

[Zep Tepi]

I built a barn and put the fire with chimney outside the back wall. So there is no access to the fire from inside. It still works to keep them warm. And then I put a low wall around the whole thing. I did have eggs laid outside, and did have a chick hatch from an egg to the outside. Maybe an extra spacer around the fire would be a good idea too so they don't lay through the wall into there.

But generally they don't just disappear. If they ended up in the fire you should have meat and maybe feathers. It's possible they could clip through the floor or a thick stone wall. They don't understand physics at all.

[Tyz]

I stopped breeding chickens because of this. Their coop has pretty high walls and somehow I will return to find nobody in there. Thankfully, there are alternatives for high level foods.

[DeMasked]

Someone in another thread or some youtube comment section mentioned using a Hanging Brazier for those worried about chickens dying from a fire placed on the ground.

I haven't come across chickens phasing out of walls yet since I used the hoe to make a small enclosure near the Forsaken spot amidst my veggie farm and tree farm.

edit: Also if someone needs eggs due to difficulties with dying chickens let me know and I'll give you a few. That or just use console commands I suppose to spawn them.

[FissionChips]

I haven't had any eggs clip through my black marble chicken coop. One did clip through a stone wall. I haven't had any hatch through walls either, that I'm aware of.

Barn raising chickens is a nice aesthetic but it's pretty low yield, I might have to build an egg cheeser instead.

[Redlust]

My favorite place for a chicken coop is under the Elder shrine and using that eternal fire as the warmth for the chickens. Since they are below the fire and cannot possibly get to it they are pretty much safe. Also the walls are earthen walls, all sealed nice and tight with only a portal in and out.

I did at first have troubles with chickens and so forth, eggs showing up beyond the pen walls i would build and them darn bastards that just seem to straight line it to the fire. Even when it was outside the pen, but perhaps too close. Anyway the move to the Elder shrine was a good move for me. Happy to report, not a single chicken lost since then, and I have a healthy amount of eggs, chicken meats, and tons of clucking cluckers just eating me out of barely. XD

[hazelrah]

i put them in an earthen room. on one side i have a stone hearth with only the stone base visible below a wooden wall. i can add wood to the fire, but the chickens cant get into it. the entrance is a wooden gate. there's no way in or out except the door. i still have chickens running around everywhere...

[Tanyon]

I build a simple structure from wood. 5x4 2 high with stone floors. A fire in the back with a iron bars blocking the front so they cant jump in. Only chickens that ever got out are ones where the eggs were pushed through the walls and hatched outside my coop but never had any inside the coop get out.