Editing Chicken

{{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. It grows very quickly and lays eggs very often.
|type = Animals
|type2 = Farm
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|healthscale = 0.35
|movespeed = 2.10
|attack1dmg = 2
|attack1type = scratch
|attack1part = claws
|attack1cool = 90
|attack2dmg = 3
|attack2type = bite
|attack2part = beak
|attack2cool = 100
|attack3dmg = 1
|attack3type = blunt
|attack3part = head
|attack3cool = 90
|leathername = 
|leatheryield = 0
|eggsmin = 1
|eggsmax = 1
|eggs_avg = 1
|eggtime = 1
|eggs_unfertilized = true
|eggmarketvalue = 7.0
|manhunter = 0.0
|manhuntertame = 0.0
|hungerrate = 0.14
|diet = herbivorous
|trainable = none
|wildness = 0
|gestation = 1
|lifespan = 6
|maturityage = 0.2
|juvenileage = 0.12
<!--|matemtbhours = 8-->
|marketvalue = 50
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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 '''Roosters''' 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'''.

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.

==Training==
Chickens lack the intelligence for training.

{{TrainingTable}}

==Livestock==
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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 [[capybara]]s, but less efficient than [[pig]]s and [[wild boar]]s.

== Health ==
{{Animal Health Table}}

== Version history ==
* [[Version/0.12.906|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 [[snowhare]]s for meat and [[cow]]s for [[milk]].

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