Difference between revisions of "Chicken"

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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. Hens will happily lay unfertilized eggs without a rooster or they can be bred to start chicken farming. Chickens grow very quickly, taking just over one quadrum from being laid to full maturity - only being surpassed by the iguana in this aspect.

Training

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.

Livestock

A chicken takes 7.2 days to become a juvenile, and a total of 18 days to reach adulthood.

Chickens will regularly lay eggs if female, even if unfertilized, unlike other egg-laying livestock. Each egg has enough nutrition to replace the meat component in a fine meal. If you also have a rooster, he may fertilize eggs before a hen lays them. These eggs will then hatch into a chick, so long as it is left alone and does not experience extreme temperatures (Less than 0C, greater than 50C). Unfertilized eggs will never hatch. There is no difference between a fertilized and an unfertilized egg for the purpose of cooking.

When slaughtered, a chicken yields 5 meat as a chick; 16 as a juvenile; or 22 as an adult. No leather is yielded. It's worth noting that allowing an egg to hatch and immediately slaughtering it for meat provides the exact same amount of nutrition as simply eating the egg. As a general rule this would mean that its still better to eat the egg as you don't need to wait until its hatched, the egg will last slightly longer in storage (important if you live somewhere with regular heat waves) and you don't need to generate a butchering job, unless you plan on making pemmican which requires meat exclusively.

Feeding

A chicken consumes 0.56 nutrition per day, or roughly 12 hay.

The following is a list of how much haygrass it takes to sustain a mature chicken. Bracketed values are actual values rounded up to 2 decimal places:

Gravel: 8 (7.18)
Soil: 6 (5.89)
Rich Soil: 5 (4.75)

Therefore, when slaughtered as juveniles, chickens have a nutrition efficiency (nutrition out for nutrition in) of 28.1%. This makes them the 10th most efficient animal to farm for meat; more efficient than capybaras, but less efficient than pigs and wild boars.

Health

Body part	Health
Head	9
Skull	9
Brain	4
Nose	4
Neck	9
Jaw	7
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	4
Ear (left, right)	4
Body	14
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	5
Lung^[2] (left, right)	5
Liver^[2]	7
Heart^[2]	5
Spine^[2]	9
Stomach^[2]	7
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	11
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	7

↑ Located inside of Head.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

Trivia

Despite being birds, they are defined in Races_Animal_Farm.xml instead of Races_Animal_Birds.xml, a quirk shared by the Duck and Goose.

Version history

0.12.906 - Added

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, it's much more nutrition-efficient to farm snowhares for meat and cows for milk.

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

[Head-1] Located inside of Head.

[Body-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

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+{{infobox main|animal|
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 |name = Chicken
 |image = Chicken.png
-|description = "The most traditional farm bird, the chicken is raised for its eggs and meat."
+|description = The most traditional farm bird, the chicken is raised for its eggs and meat. It grows very quickly and lays eggs very often.
 |type = Animals
 |type2 = Farm
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+|leatheryield = 0
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+|eggtime = 2
+|eggs_unfertilized = true
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+|manhunter = 0.0
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+|hungerrate = 0.35
 |diet = herbivorous
 |trainable = none
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+|gestation = 2
-|gestation = 60
 |lifespan = 6
-|maturityage = 0.3+
+|maturityage = 0.3
-<!--|matemtbhours = 3-->
+<!--|matemtbhours = 8-->
-|marketvalue = 75
+|marketvalue = 50
-|maxtemp = 50 C
+|min comfortable temperature = -10
-|mintemp = 0 C
+|max comfortable temperature = 40
-|massadult = 17.5
+|massadult = 12.6
-}}</onlyinclude>
+|page verified for version = A14D
+}}{{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 very quickly, taking just over one quadrum from being laid to full maturity - only being surpassed by the [[iguana]] in this aspect.}}</onlyinclude>
-{{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 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.}}
+==Training==
+Chickens lack the intelligence for training.
-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 overwhelmed. It is easy for a dozen hens to quickly produce hundreds of chicks, and although individual chicks are easy to maintain, a sudden surge can quickly overwhelm your food supply. 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.
+{{TrainingTable}}
+==Livestock==
+A chicken takes 7.2 days to become a juvenile, and a total of 18 days to reach adulthood.
+Chickens will regularly lay eggs if female, even if unfertilized, unlike other egg-laying livestock. Each egg has enough nutrition to replace the meat component in a fine meal. If you also have a rooster, he may fertilize eggs before a hen lays them. These eggs will then hatch into a chick, so long as it is left alone and does not experience extreme temperatures (Less than 0C, greater than 50C). Unfertilized eggs will never hatch. There is no difference between a fertilized and an unfertilized egg for the purpose of cooking.
+When slaughtered, a chicken yields 5 meat as a chick; 16 as a juvenile; or 22 as an adult. No leather is yielded. It's worth noting that allowing an egg to hatch and immediately slaughtering it for meat provides the exact same amount of nutrition as simply eating the egg. As a general rule this would mean that its still better to eat the egg as you don't need to wait until its hatched, the egg will last slightly longer in storage (important if you live somewhere with regular heat waves) and you don't need to generate a butchering job, ''unless'' you plan on making [[pemmican]] which requires meat exclusively.
+===Feeding===
+A chicken consumes 0.56 nutrition per day, or roughly 12 [[hay]].
-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.
+The following is a list of how much [[haygrass]] it takes to sustain a mature chicken. Bracketed values are actual values rounded up to 2 decimal places:
+* '''Gravel:''' 8 (7.18)
+* '''Soil:''' 6 (5.89)
+* '''Rich Soil:''' 5 (4.75)
-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.
+Therefore, when slaughtered as juveniles, chickens have a nutrition efficiency (nutrition out for nutrition in) of 28.1%. This makes them the 10th most efficient animal to farm for meat; more efficient than [[capybara]]s, but less efficient than [[pig]]s and [[wild boar]]s.
-<!--Don't get angry guys, I didn't vandalize anything-->
+== Health ==
-===Training===
+{{Animal Health Table}}
-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}}
+== Trivia ==
+Despite being birds, they are defined in Races_Animal_Farm.xml instead of Races_Animal_Birds.xml, a quirk shared by the [[Duck]] and [[Goose]].
-==Livestock==
+== Version history ==
-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 catch [[wikipedia:fire|fire]].
+* [[Version/0.12.906|0.12.906]] - Added
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+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, it's much more nutrition-efficient to farm [[snowhare]]s for meat and [[cow]]s for [[milk]].
-[[file:Chickpocalypse.jpeg|400px|thumb|Demonstration of a chicken farm forcefully controlled by [[mods]]. Notice the high yield of chicken meat.]]
-</div>
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