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Chickens can not be found in the wild; they must be bought from a merchant or join the colony in a self-taming event. Males of the species are referred to as Cockerels as adolescents and Roosters as adults and can be distinguished by their ruddy brown coloration, while females are referred to as Hens and are white. Babies of either gender are bright yellow and referred to as Chicks.

Summary[edit]

Chickens are pen animals. Once tamed, pen animals cannot and do not need to be trained any further. But if left outside of a pen or caravan hitching spot, pen animals will eventually roam outside your colony. Making a caravan is not required to tie animals to a caravan hitching spot.

A female chicken produces 1 egg every 1 day. Chickens can lay both unfertilized and fertilized eggs, depending on if it has mated with a rooster.

Analysis[edit]

Chickens are the best animal for egg production, and one of the best animals for meat production.

Chickens grow very quickly, taking only 12 days to mature, placing them among the fastest-growing animals. Combined with their incredibly fast reproduction rate of 1 offspring per day, a population of chickens can rapidly explode from a single rooster and hen, theoretically increasing to a population of 1200 adults within the span of just a year. Once the population explosion gets going, the population will double every approximately 5.7 days.

Chickens are nearly identical to ducks. Ducks provide the same yield in both meat and eggs. But ducks consume 20% more nutrition, so they are inferior as livestock.

Eggs[edit]

An adult hen consumes 0.22 nutrition per day, and produces 0.25 nutrition of eggs each day. This results in a nutrition efficiency of 111.6% when unfertilized eggs are eaten. Overeating, and the existence of roosters, will lower nutrition efficiency in practice.

Note that slaughtering chicks gives more nutrition than eating unhatched eggs (0.6 from meat rather than 0.25 from 1 egg). Note that a rooster has to fertilize each hen, that hens have to be slaughtered, and that a butcher's yields are multiplied by Butchery Efficiency. So if you don't have a skilled cook, eggs may be better for nutrition. Also, eggs are vegetarian.

Meat[edit]

When slaughtered, a chicken yields 12 meat as a chick; 26 as a juvenile; or 42 as an adult. No leather is yielded.

When chicks are slaughtered, an always-fertilized hen produces 0.6 nutrition per day, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of 267.9% for the hen alone, or 178.6% when accounting for the 2:1 hen:rooster ratio needed to achieve a good fertilization rate.

As a chick grows into adulthood, it will consume 1.45 nutrition in total, and will yield 1.5 more nutrition when slaughtered than it would as a baby. Due to the effects of overeating, letting chickens grow up is a slight malus to meat yield. Despite being slightly worse, you may prefer to let chicks grow up, as slaughtering adult chickens takes less work.

Chickens are the best pen animal for nutritional efficiency. The main competitors are the ibex and tortoise. Ibex are less efficient, but take far less slaughtering work. Tortoises aren't pen animals, meaning they must be re-tamed over time, but are even better for nutrition.

Kill-focused[edit]

Chicken's rapid reproduction makes them good fodder for the Kill-focused persona trait. This persona trait grants +20% psyfocus whenever its wielder kills any pawn, even when slaughtering chickens or chicks. A coop can allow rapid use of psycasts, such as word of inspiration, which would otherwise be limited by psyfocus.

Training[edit]

Chickens lack the intelligence for training.

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Health[edit]

Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage^[1]	Target Chance^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	14	1	100%	19%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Tail	3.5	1	10%	10%	Body	-	-
Spine	8.75	1	5%	5%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	7	1	4%	4%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	5.25	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	5.25	2	4%	4%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	5.25	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	7	1	5%	5%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Neck	8.75	1	20%	5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	8.75	1	75%	3.1%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	8.75	1	30%	1.8%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed. Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	3.5	1	60%	2.7%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	3.5	2	12%	1.8%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Beak	7	1	25%	3.8%	Head	Eating Talking Manipulation	−100% Manipulation −90% Eating^[6]
Leg	10.5	2	10%	5%	Body	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.
Foot	8.75	2	50%	5%	Leg	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.
↑ Note that eating won't go below 10%.

Gallery[edit]

Hen facing east
Hen facing north
Hen facing south
Chicken decaying

Rooster facing east
Rooster facing north
Rooster facing south

Chick facing east
Chick facing north
Chick facing south

Version history[edit]

0.12.906 - Added
Alpha 17 - Prior to Alpha 17, chickens were one of the fastest reproducing animals in the game. However, they were nerfed in Alpha 17 in both body size and breeding rate, making them significantly less efficient than they used to be. In fact, after Alpha 17, it was much more nutrition-efficient to farm snowhares for meat and cows for milk.
1.3:
- Egg interval: 2 -> 1
- Base hunger rate: 0.35 -> 0.14
- Maturity age: 0.3 -> 0.2

Animals

Herbivorous: Alpaca • Bison • Boomalope • Capybara • Caribou • Cassowary • Chicken • Chinchilla • Cow • Deer • Donkey • Dromedary • Duck • Elephant • Elk • Emu • Gazelle • Goat • Goose • Guinea pig • Hare • Horse • Ibex • Megasloth • Muffalo • Ostrich • Rhinoceros • Sheep • Snowhare • Squirrel • Turkey • Yak • Toxalope

Dendrovorous: Alphabeaver • Thrumbo

Omnivorous: Boomrat • Grizzly bear • Human • Husky • Iguana • Labrador retriever • Megascarab • Megaspider • Monkey • Pig • Polar bear • Spelopede • Raccoon • Rat • Tortoise • Wild boar • Yorkshire terrier • Waste rat

Carnivorous: Arctic fox • Arctic wolf • Cat • Cobra • Cougar • Fennec fox • Lynx • Panther • Red fox • Timber wolf • Warg

Dryads: Barkskin • Berrymaker • Carrier • Clawer • Gaumaker • Immature dryad • Medicinemaker • Woodmaker

[1] Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.

[2] Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.

[3] Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.

[4] This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.

[5] If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.

[6] Note that eating won't go below 10%.

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+| description = The most traditional farm bird, the chicken is raised for its eggs and meat. It grows very quickly and lays eggs very often.
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+'''Chickens''' can not be found in the wild; they must be bought from a merchant or join the colony in a self-taming event.  Males of the species are referred to as '''Cockerels''' as adolescents and '''Roosters''' as adults and can be distinguished by their ruddy brown coloration, while females are referred to as '''Hens''' and are white. Babies of either gender are bright yellow and referred to as '''Chicks'''.
-{{info|Chickens can not be found in the wild; they must be bought from a merchant or join the colony in a self-taming event. Hens will happily lay [[Chicken_egg_(unfert.)|unfertilized eggs]] without a rooster or they can be bred to start chicken farming. Chickens grow extremely fast, taking just over one season from being laid to full maturity.}}
+== Summary ==
+{{Pen Animal Note|Chickens}}
-Chickens are some of the fastest reproducing animals in the game so <s>some</s> extreme care must be taken to keep chicken populations under control or you'll quickly find your colony in a chicksplosion. It is easy for a dozen hens and a rooster to quickly produce hundreds of chicks, and although individual chicks are easy to maintain, a sudden surge can quickly overwhelm your food supply and your CPU. Chicken feed is accomplished by growing [[haygrass]], though handling large farms will be taxing on hauling labor without the help of trained dogs - or [[Grizzly bear|bears]] (or [[Thrumbo|Thrumbos]] if that's your style, although half of your haygrass field would be ruthlessly devoured before actually being hauled) as Haygrass stacks up to 200.
+A female chicken produces {{P|Eggs Per Clutch Average}} [[egg]] every {{P|Egg Laying Interval}} day. Chickens can lay both [[Chicken egg (unfert.)|unfertilized]] and [[Chicken egg (fert.)|fertilized]] eggs, depending on if it has mated with a rooster.
-Alternatively, you can just let them forage in the wild, though this leaves them vulnerable to predators.
-A clutch of freshly hatched chickens can be slaughtered for a modest amount of meat or sold to merchants as a <span class="plainlinks">[http://ludeon.com/blog/studio/ Ludeon]</span>icrous source of income.
+== Analysis ==
+Chickens are the best animal for egg production, and one of the best animals for meat production.
-Keep your chickens far from Foxes and Cobras because they usually hunt them. Or don't. It doesn't really matter because the losses are quickly replenished.
+Chickens grow very quickly, taking only {{#expr:{{P|Maturity Age}}*60 round 1}} days to mature, placing them among the fastest-growing animals. Combined with their incredibly fast reproduction rate of {{#expr:{{P|Eggs Per Clutch Average}}/{{P|Egg Laying Interval}}}} offspring per day, a population of chickens can rapidly explode from a single rooster and hen, theoretically increasing to a population of 1200 adults within the span of just a year. Once the population explosion gets going, the population will double every approximately 5.7 days.<!--simulated with clutch_size=1, egg_interval=1, maturity_age=12-->
-<!--Don't get angry guys, I didn't vandalize anything-->
+Chickens are nearly identical to [[duck]]s. Ducks provide the same yield in both meat and eggs. But ducks consume 20% more nutrition, so they are inferior as livestock.
-===Training===
-Chickens lack the intelligence for training. You can, however, make battle chickens by using [[Zone/Area#Animal area|animal areas]] to create choke points for your enemies.
-{{TrainingTable}}
+=== Eggs ===
+An adult hen consumes {{P|Real Hunger Rate}} nutrition per day, and produces {{#vardefineecho:egg_nutr_per_day|{{#expr:{{P|Eggs Per Clutch Average}}/{{P|Egg Laying Interval}}*{{Q|Chicken egg (unfert.)|Nutrition}}}}}} nutrition of eggs each day. This results in a nutrition efficiency of {{%|{{#var:egg_nutr_per_day}}/({{P|Base Hunger Rate}}*1.6) round 3}} when unfertilized eggs are eaten. [[Overeating]], and the existence of roosters, will lower nutrition efficiency in practice.
+Note that slaughtering chicks gives more nutrition than eating unhatched eggs (0.6 from meat rather than {{Q|Chicken egg (fert.)|Nutrition}} from 1 egg). Note that a rooster has to fertilize each hen, that hens have to be slaughtered, and that a butcher's yields are multiplied by [[Butchery Efficiency]]. So if you don't have a skilled cook, eggs may be better for nutrition. Also, eggs are vegetarian.
+=== Meat ===
+When slaughtered, a chicken yields {{#vardefineecho:baby_meat|{{Meat Leather Curve|{{#expr:{{P|Body Size}}*0.1*140}}}}}} meat as a chick; {{Meat Leather Curve|{{#expr:{{P|Body Size}}*0.5*140}}}} as a juvenile; or {{Meat Leather Curve|{{#expr:{{P|Body Size}}*140}}}} as an adult. No leather is yielded.
+When chicks are slaughtered, an always-fertilized hen produces {{#expr:{{Meat Production|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby}} round 2}} nutrition per day, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of {{%|{{Meat Production|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby}}/({{P|Base Hunger Rate}}*1.6) round 3}} for the hen alone, or {{%|{{Meat Production|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby|{{#vardefineecho:femaleratio|{{#expr: 2/3*24*{{P|Egg Laying Interval}}/{{P|Mate Mtb Hours}} round 2}}}}}}/{{Nutrition Consumption|{{PAGENAME}}|Baby|{{#var:femaleratio}}|1}} round 3}} when accounting for the {{#var:femaleratio}}:1 hen:rooster ratio needed to achieve a good [[Animals#Mating|fertilization rate]].
+As a chick grows into adulthood, it will consume {{#expr:{{Consumption Upto Adulthood}} round 2}} nutrition in total, and will yield {{#expr:0.05*({{P|Meat Yield}} - {{#var:baby_meat}})}} more nutrition when slaughtered than it would as a baby. Due to the effects of [[overeating]], letting chickens grow up is a slight malus to meat yield. Despite being slightly worse, you may prefer to let chicks grow up, as slaughtering adult chickens takes less work.
-==Livestock==
+Chickens are the best pen animal for nutritional efficiency. The main competitors are the [[ibex]] and [[tortoise]]. [[Ibex]] are less efficient, but take far less slaughtering work. [[Tortoise]]s aren't pen animals, meaning they must be re-tamed over time, but are even better for nutrition.
-{{Humour}}
-Keeping chickens as livestock is extremely hard, but extremely rewarding if you can control it. If you have a pair of chickens ready to start mating, in about 1 season your meat shortage will simply vanish. As chickens are living example of the nature of [[wikipedia: exponential growth|exponential growth]]; if you do not keep your chicken population under control, your CPU, all 5 of your display screens, and all nearby electronics will spontaneously [[wikipedia:combustion|combust]].
+=== Kill-focused ===
+Chicken's rapid reproduction makes them good fodder for the  [[Persona traits#Kill-focused|Kill-focused]] persona trait.{{RoyaltyIcon}} This persona trait grants +20% [[psyfocus]]{{RoyaltyIcon}} whenever its wielder kills any pawn, even when slaughtering chickens or chicks. A coop can allow rapid use of psycasts, such as word of inspiration, which would otherwise be limited by psyfocus.
-===Feeding===
+== Training ==
-Three chickens can be sustained on ten tiles of Haygrass.
+Chickens lack the intelligence for training.
-* Chickens eat three times a day: 2 hay for lunch, 2 hay for dinner and 4 hay for breakfast. So 8 hay every day that goes by waiting for crops to grow.
+{{TrainingTable}}
-* Haygrass grows in 5 days worth of daylight, or 10 days with nights at 100% fertility. And each haygrass produces 24 hay when it matures.
-* So in ten days a chicken will eat 10 days x 8 hay/day = 80 hay.
-* If we have three chickens then 3 chickens x 80 hay/cycle = 240 hay/cycle.
-* And if we have ten haygrass then it will produce 10 haygrass x 24 hay/cycle = 240 hay/cycle.
-This does not take into account the exponential nature of chicken breeding; if you have at least 1 chicken from each gender locked in your outdoor pasture, soon in-bred chickens will swarm the map, stripping the land bare of any living plant (except trees) they can find.
+== Health ==
+{{Animal Health Table|Bird}}
-Note that due to their small body size, chickens will eat a lot more grass than they need on paper. This is especially pronounced in the younger life stages, so even if you don't have enough hay or kibble to feed all of your chickens, you should prioritize feeding the chicks with your foodstocks and only let the adults graze. The reason is that all pawns have a maximum nutrition capacity(visible on the needs tab) based on their body size, but the same hunger rate across all life stages. Currently, a baby chick can have 0.07 nutrition and will try to eat around the 50% mark. If they eat grass (normally worth 0.15 nutrition) they'll end up consuming all of it but only receive the .035 to 0.04 nutrition that they're missing, with the rest wasted. Given their capacity and their hunger rate, chicks actually have to eat 6 or 7 times a day(making their hunger rate functionally closer to 1.0 when eating grass), while a hen or rooster would only eat about 3 grass (0.45 nutrition) per day. Feeding them hay or vegetables instead will largely eliminate this inefficiency.
+== Gallery ==
-<div class="pull-left">
+<gallery>
-[[file:Chickpocalypse.jpeg|400px|thumb|Demonstration of a chicken farm forcefully controlled by [[mods]]. Notice the high yield of chicken meat.]]
+Chicken east.png|Hen facing east
-</div>
+Chicken north.png|Hen facing north
+Chicken south.png|Hen facing south
+Dessicated chicken east.png|Chicken decaying
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Rooster.png|Rooster facing east
+Rooster North.png|Rooster facing north
+Rooster South.png|Rooster facing south
+</gallery>
+<gallery>
+Chick.png|Chick facing east
+Chick North.png|Chick facing north
+Chick South.png|Chick facing south
+</gallery>
+== Version history ==
+* [[Version/0.12.906|0.12.906]] - Added
+* Alpha 17 - Prior to Alpha 17, chickens were one of the fastest reproducing animals in the game. However, they were nerfed in Alpha 17 in both body size and breeding rate, making them significantly less efficient than they used to be. In fact, after Alpha 17, it was much more nutrition-efficient to farm [[snowhare]]s for meat and [[cow]]s for [[milk]].
+* [[Version/1.3.3066|1.3]]:
+**Egg interval: 2 -> 1
+**Base hunger rate: 0.35 -> 0.14
+**Maturity age: 0.3 -> 0.2
-{{nav|animal}}
+{{nav|animal|wide}}
 [[Category:Animals]]
-[[Category:Farm]]
+[[Category:Farm animal]]