Talk:Chicken

Anywhere grass?
Since chickens spawn at an 1/8 rate when you throw an egg at a grass tile, does that mean they can spawn anywhere at grass when an egg is thrown?


 * You can throw eggs to spawn chickens anywhere, but I'm not sure about slabs/glass. --Troagador 20:23, 15 January 2011 (UTC)


 * What about tall-grass? The stuff you gets seeds from? I have a base on a huge plain (grassland biome?) with acres of tall grass and loads of cows and sheep and few pigs but no chickens for quite some playing time. Forrest nearby.. nothing. Where do chickens come from? Bart --86.80.116.169 23:47, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Hates Pits
Chickens seem to hate being stuck in a pit. An example would be this video (specifically from 1:35 to 1:42), in which it seems as though the troop of chickens were racing to get out of the pit. I've also seen this behavior in a couple of other post-Beta Youtube videos. I also tried this in my own game. However, I don't know if it applies to any other mobs. --Myuzi 00:20, 26 December 2010 (CST)
 * Wow that is a new behaviour mob behaviour. Someone's gotta' check it out. :o --Scykei 10:11, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

I have a death hole type set up, with a small hole for some redstone to get through. It seems to me that the chickens landing in the death pit are anxious to go through this 1 block whole to get to the more expansion cavern for wiring, but I've not really seen enough of this to confirm anyting. --Troagador 20:25, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Actually, from what I can tell, this is normal. It just looks unnatural because all the chickens' pathfinders are tracing through one block. I believe I've seen this with other mobs as well. When a mob comes to the side of a block, it will attempt to jump over it. if there are no 1-block ledges available, it will constantly attempt to find a better path. When he removed the block, all the chickens registered a jumpable ledge, and all decided it was a usable path. Mobs (for the most part) do not consider other mobs when tracing a path, so while they all appeared to swarm the opening, in reality, it was just each chicken detecting a better path at once. So there isn't an actual piece of code for "Escape from pit, ASAP", but if you'd like to interpret this function as a dislike of pits, go on ahead. I'm no coder, and my understanding of mob AI is based on observation and reading this wiki. My knowledge is rudimentary at best, but I hope this helped, anyway! --Technoman7 16:58, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Timer?
Im trying to farm eggs but my chickens keep vanishing. I am not sure if this is on a timer or what. Could this possibly be El Chupacabra? haha =P Anyone know if ther is a timer on farm or passive animals?


 * Like all other passive mobs chickens disappear when you walk away from them. If you want your chickens to stay you have to stay close to them. --Taurentius 22:47, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Chickens = enemy spies?
I heard that when chicken encounters a hostile monster, it then leads that monster to the player. Is that true? I must say that I saw chickens during daylight creeper fights quite often. Xeoxer 14:50, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

That's not true. Hostile mobs will ignore chickens, and chicken's pathfinding has nothing to do with the player. The fact that you saw chickens during a fight with a creeper doesn't really mean anything, because chickens spawn in the daylight, anyway. --Technoman7 15:58, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

That would be super creepy if they did! Milkman9 16:01, 28 August 2011 (CTD)

Chickens Dying from Overcrowding
It says in the article that chickens will die when crowded in a small space. I think this only applies when the walls are made from a solid block and is due to it being forced to clip into the block and take suffocation damage. I've seen a great number of chickens in a very small farm using fence for the walls and none of them will die. --Wriggle255 02:34, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Chickens in caves (1.8)?
I've been playing 1.8 for a day now, exploring some caves, and have come across two chickens while underground. One had even laid an egg. I could also hear a chicken while in a very large underground ravine, probably about 30 layers deep. Is this happening to anyone else, or just me?
 * Considering chickens take no fall damage, it would make sense to find some in a ravine that opens up to the surface somewhere. 174.32.68.85 00:58, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Spawn rate change?
Is it me, or have chickens become a lot rarer since 1.8? It's been days since I last saw one... heck, I actually haven't had any new passive mobs spawn near my home. Is that normal now? Cobalt32 02:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Did you killed animals near your home? because now less animals spawn if you kill them... --Gil2455526 02:20, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I did... so now you need to leave some alive if you want more to spawn? Cobalt32 01:09, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah, they now spawn when you first gets to the chunck, and respawn VERY slowly, like hours...--Gil2455526 01:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

eggs for breeding?
right now chickens dont lay eggs for the breeding thing with wheat they could soon idk if they will

Well they might but each time I throw a egg at a chicken there comes another one or fourNick63 22:48, 20 October 2011 (UTC)Nick63

Chicken = duck
Posted on twitter 28.10.11: @notch Markus Persson Also, the chicken is now a duck. 
 * It was a joke — Toshu (talk) 01:52, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Baby Chicken height?
How tall is a baby chicken? Well its hard to say how tall they are but they are silghty shorter than normal chicken due to the fact that there heads are the same size but there body is smaller.

Swimming Chicken Bug?
If 3 or more chickens are swimming in one chunk, when you leave that chunk you can experience a FPS drop. The more chickens there are swimming, the more severe and prolonged the FPS drop is. This has been around for a very long time: (Despite solving the silly math captcha correctly, the page would not save the changes and therefore would not let me have a source for this claim) I'm not sure where to report this bug, so I figured this would be the best place for it. 118.93.22.174 09:25, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Chickens lay eggs between 5 and 10 minutes (Every 6000 ticks + a random 6000 ticks)
The article states that they "may" lay an egg every 5 to 10 minutes but there is solid proof in the source that chickens WILL lay an egg every 5 minutes minumum with an up to 5 minute extra time that is randomly assigned. Nothing has changed in 1.8 as is speculated in the article and as such should be removed. Don't know about 1.0 though since I'm not coding for 1.0 until most mods get updated to 1.0 46.59.35.62 01:19, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Chicks from egg on SMP
Under Trivia it says that on SMP world that is generated before 1.0, instead of chicks, eggs will hatch full grown chickens. On my server, in a world that is generated with 1.8 eggs hatch chicks, not chickens. Server is Bukkit mod, I don't know about vanilla server. --31.45.179.244 15:51, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Jump Height
How high can a chicken jump? Will a chicken jump a fence, two fences? Anotherfahlman 12:55, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Strange Behaviour 1.2.4 and Multi-Spawn Eggs
Hmm. I'm noticing that my chicken have a big tendency to try to escape from a fence area when they are inside of it and the gates are opened. Lol?

Also, now every time (happended 3 times in a row) I trow an egg that hatch I get 4 chickens insted of one. It's a bug, or luck?