Chickens
Chickens are easy to care for and will produce eggs every day. When you first start out on your farm you won't have a place to house chickens. The blueprint for the Coop is for sale at Silk Country for 30,000 G (or 20,000 G if you are playing in Seedling Mode). Each Coop requires you to combine 10 Small Lumber, 15 Lumber, 15 Stone, and 20 Chicken Feed. The Chicken Feed is for sale at Otmar's General Store for 50 G each.
There are three types of chickens you can care for on your farm. Each produces a different type of egg:
- The normal Chicken is for sale at Silk Country or Cabin Country for 5000 G each. You still need to build a Coop for the chickens before you can buy one.
- The black Silkie Chicken is for sale at Cabin Country for 10,000 G each starting in Fall of year 2.
- The brown Araucana Chicken isn't available until Spring of year 4. You can purchase them from Wheat Country for 15,000 G each.
The game's wifi trading system prohibits the exchange of Silkie eggs or Araucana eggs to hatch your own birds with. You have to go through the in-game years to unlock the chickens properly.
Chickens can be fed by placing Chicken Feed in the large bin on the floor of the Coop. If you want to feed your chickens outside, you need to build and place a Bird Feeder; chickens do not forage for food from off of the ground. The blueprint for the Bird Feeder is for sale at Silk Country for 2500 G once you own a chicken. Each Bird Feeder requires 7 Stone and 7 Dried Soil to construct. Then just place Chicken Feed in the Bird Feeder bin to feed the chickens while they are outside.
Collecting Eggs
Every morning you'll find eggs on the ground in the straw-laden area in the northeast corner of the Coop. Each chicken will lay one visible egg for you to pick up; if the chicken happens to produce more than one egg, the one egg you harvest off the ground will contain multiple eggs. If you leave the eggs on the ground unharvested, the chickens will continue to lay eggs in the same spots in the Coop every day. Eventually when you go to harvest the eggs, you may find egg after egg as you keep pressing the A Button to pick them up.
Eggs can be converted into mayonnaise by using the Cheese Factory maker shed. The Fermenter machine inside of the Cheese Factory will process the eggs, but you also need to add Oil to make mayonnaise. Oil is for sale at Otmar's General Store and Rose Country for 170 G.
You can increase the number of By-Products you receive from your chickens by feeding them Cluck-Cluck Treats. You can buy these treats from Cabin Country for 200 G each. You'll need to give (at most) 119 Cluck-Cluck Treats to raise a normal chicken to 5 By-Products, 122 Cluck-Cluck Treats to raise a silkie chicken to 5 By-Products, and 130 Cluck-Cluck Treats to get an auraucana chicken to produce 5 By-Products. The number of By-Products it gives will never decrease if you stop giving it treats.
To make your chickens permanently produce golden goods, each animal must spend at least 100 in-game hours in the Safari. You also might obtain gold-quality goods from a chicken, silkie, or araucana with a Level-Headed personality once the animal reaches at least 7 friendship hearts. Golden products are the equivalent level of plus-quality (+) products with cows, sheep, alpaca, llama, rabbit, and camel; for some reason just the chickens were localized as producing "golden" whereas all other animals were localized as producing "+" quality.
Birth and Death
Increasing your chicken population is easy to do. Once you buy your first bird, you can hatch the remaining flock on your own! Just place an egg in the nesting box inside the Coop. An egg will take 7 days to hatch into a baby chick. The chick will mature into an egg-laying chicken after 10 days if you remember to feed it every day.
Chickens will naturally pass away as they become old. A normal, well-cared for chicken can start to pass away once it reaches 4 years old, and a silkie or araucana can pass away starting at age 5.
Egg Data Information
| Item Name | Maker Shed Recipe | Profit 1 Star | 3 Stars | 5 Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Egg | --- | 144 G | 240 G | 336 G |
| Golden Egg | --- | 432 G | 720 G | 1008 G |
| Silkie Egg | --- | 240 G | 400 G | 560 G |
| Golden Silkie Egg | --- | 720 G | 1200 G | 1680 G |
| Araucana Egg | --- | 360 G | 600 G | 840 G |
| Golden Araucana Egg | --- | 1080 G | 1800 G | 2520 G |
| Mayonnaise | Egg + Oil | 204 G | 340 G | 476 G |
| Mayonnaise + | Gold Egg + Oil | 480 G | 800 G | 1120 G |
| Silkie Mayonnaise | Silkie Egg + Oil | 300 G | 500 G | 700 G |
| Silkie Mayonnaise + | Golden Silkie Egg + Oil | 720 G | 1200 G | 1680 G |
| Araucana Mayonnaise | Araucana Egg + Oil | 420 G | 700 G | 980 G |
| Araucana Mayonnaise + | Golden Araucana Egg + Oil | 1200 G | 2000 G | 2800 G |
| Herb Mayonnaise | Egg + Oil + Thyme | 240 G | 400 G | 560 G |
| Herb Mayonnaise + | Golden Egg + Oil + Chamomile | 516 G | 860 G | 1204 G |
| Silkie Herb Mayo | Silkie Egg + Oil + Lavender | 336 G | 560 G | 784 G |
| Silkie Herb Mayo + | Golden Silkie Egg + Oil + Sage | 756 G | 1260 G | 1764 G |
| Araucana Herb Mayo | Araucana Egg + Oil + Laurier | 456 G | 760 G | 1064 G |
| Araucana Herb Mayo + | Golden Araucana Egg + Oil + Bergamot | 1236 G | 2060 G | 2884 G |
