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Chickens
Chickens
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Chickens and eggs are randomly found by examining grass and trees, or you can raise them in a Chicken Coop.
The Avian Selection tech is required. Hens are found in Pale Pampas grass about 10% of the time. Roosters are found in Dark Pampas grass abut 1% of the time. Eggs are found in nests, in trees when harvesting wood, about 1% of the time
Care and Feeding of Chickens
Chickens are kept in a Chicken Coop and need to be fed raw barley. Hens lay eggs and the eggs hatch to produce more hens and roosters. If the coop ever runs out of barley, the chickens will begin to starve. Hens eat about 5 Barley each per game day. You can keep 20 Hens in a coop. Hens produce 1 egg each per game day. Roosters eat abut 20 Barley each per game day. Eggs hatch 1 Hen (95%) or 1 Rooster (5%) per game day. You can put up to 100 eggs in a coop, but only 20 of them will hatch. If a rooster hatches, you will only get Roosters that day, and usually just one Rooster. If you don't want to gather the eggs every day, you must have a rooster for continuous production.
When you put hens or eggs in an empty coop, there's a 24 hour wait before any eggs are laid or hatched. This is not correct for eggs, You can put eggs in at 5:30am and take out hens and eggs after 6:30 am. This is the no barley method of hatching eggs. -Aberdon
Hens will lay eggs on their own if there are no eggs in the coop. Eggs will hatch on their own if there are no hens in the coop. Hens will lay eggs, and eggs will hatch hens and roosters, at any temperature, but your odds are the best when the temperature is 60-100 degrees at 6:00 AM. The temperature behavior of a Chicken Coop changes each game day, at midnight.
Setting the Chicken Coop Slats, to control the temperature, is an important consideration if you are concerned about efficiency. Otherwise, just leave the Slats at half-open, and you'll still be OK most of the time. Slats discusses how to precisely control the temperature in a Chicken Coop.
