Description
These are the instructions for a Minecraft chicken farm. This chicken farm produces chickens and eggs. The chickens automatically drop the eggs but you will need to kill them to get raw chicken. This farm is a basic pen for the chickens and relies on the player for feeding, breeding and killing.
The main product of this build is chicken and can be used for the following:
- Food -chickens are a great source of food.
- Spawning – chickens appear naturally in grassy biomes with sufficient space and light.
- Hatching – chickens can hatch when players throw eggs.
- Drops – chickens lay eggs every 5 – 10 mins.
- Behaviour -peaceful and wander around aimlessly.
- Breeding – chickens are bred using any seed i.e. wheat seeds or pumpkin seeds.
Eggs are the another product of this build and can be used for the following things:
- Hatching – eggs can be thrown and there’s a chance that they will hatch baby chickens.
- Crafting – can be used to make cakes.
- Crafting – can be used to make pumpkin pie.
- Attacking – eggs can be thrown as a projectile, they deal no damage but push entities back slightly.
- Trading – eggs can be traded in some villager trades.
Feathers are the another product of this build and can be used for the following things:
- Crafting – feathers can be used to craft arrows, firework stars and brushes.
- Book and quill – can be made by combining a book, ink sac and a feather.
- Trading – with fletcher villages
- Drops – chickens will drop between 0-2 feathers upon death.
Chickens can be found in any grassy biomes usually in groups of up to four. They will lay eggs randomly in the wild. There are two new chicken variants now, warm chickens which will spawn in jungles, badlands and savannahs and cold chickens which will spawn in windswept hills or taigas.
Ingredients
These are the ingredients and recipes that you will need to make this Minecraft chicken farm. Please ensure that you have all of the ingredients before you start your build.
| Item | Picture | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fence |  | 23 |
| Gate |  | 1 |
| Wheat seeds |  | Stack |
| Chickens |  | 2 minimum |
Build Plans
Here we will explain in detail how to build a Minecraft chicken farm. Please follow the instructions carefully.
- First lets build an enclosure using the fences. Ensure that you leave a gap for the gate.
- This pen can be as big or as small as you wish depending on how many chickens you intend to keep.
- Next add the gate so you can get into and out of the enclosure.
- Now lets get some chickens into the enclosure.
- Lure the chickens through the gate by holding seeds in your hand.
- Remember to shut the gate behind you once the chickens are in.
- After feeding the chickens seeds they will start to breed.
- The hearts coming out of the chickens mean that they are breeding and you can expect to find a baby chick.
- The chickens will also lay eggs which can be collected and either thrown to see if they hatch more chickens or used as described above.
Hints and tips
What can go wrong – chickens can escape:
- Ensure that your gates are shut when you enter or leave the pen.
Where next
Additions to the build
- One of the additions for this build is to put a carpet tile on top of one of the fences. This will enable you to enter the pen more easily without opening the gate and risk the chickens escaping. The player would have to jump over the fence by jumping on the carpet tile.