How to Feed Chickens in Stardew Valley

Chickens in Stardew Valley

As one of your responsibilities in owning a farm, you must also learn to grow livestock aside from just growing different crops. This ranges from coop animals to barn animals, slimes, and many other animals. In your journey inside this game, you will probably have to take care of any of these animals.

Chickens are one of the most common farm animals that you can take care of in Stardew Valley. To have them on your farm, you can go to Marnie’s Farm and buy it worth 800 gold or you can hatch an egg by putting it in an incubator.

There are different types of chickens that you can encounter – normal white and brown chickens, blue chickens, void chickens, and golden chickens. 

The normal-colored chickens are those that you can buy from Marnie’s Farm. The blue chicken, however, can only be acquired after seeing Shane’s 8-heart event. In the case of the void chicken, you can obtain it after experiencing a random event where a witch will fly over the coop and leave a void egg inside. Plus, you can opt to purchase void eggs in Krobus in the Sewers. Lastly, to have the golden chicken, you must reach the perfection, Upon reaching the perfection, you can start buying golden eggs from Marnie’s Farm for 100,000 gold.

In order to reproduce these coop animals and let them produce quality products, you should first know how to properly care for and feed them. In this article, you will know everything you need to learn about growing coop animals, especially chickens.

How to Feed Chickens in Stardew Valley?

During days in spring, summer, or fall, your chickens can eat grass that grows outside their coop. During wet seasons they are not able to do so, therefore you will need to bring hay into their coop for them to eat. That’s how you feed your chickens!

Knowing what and how to feed your chickens is vital in playing Stardew Valley. Aside from increasing your relationship with your animals, this is another way to help your coop animals produce a high-quality product.

There are two feeds that you can give your chicken, but these two depend on the weather and the season you are experiencing. The wet and dry seasons are the two indications of what feed you are going to give your chickens.

Wet Seasons

By saying wet seasons, this includes both winter and rainy days. During this time, your chicken will not leave the coop so they won’t be able to graze outside. All you have to do is bring hay inside their coop and place it on the feeding trough in the back part of the coop. This way, your chickens can enjoy their feeds even inside their home. This is why it is important to build a silo and store as much hay as possible.

Dry Seasons

During days in spring, summer, or fall, your chickens can eat grass that grows outside their coop. These grass are the long and soft grass that you can find randomly growing on your farm which you can cut. The grasses that grow on paths that you cannot cross unless cut using a scythe cannot be used as chicken feeds.

To let your chickens graze outside, simply stand outside near the door of the coop, and open it using the right mouse button or any button that you are using as secondary action. In doing this, your chickens will go outside the coop to graze the scattered grasses. You won’t have to worry about losing them as they will automatically return to their coop at 5 pm.

Letting the chickens eat grasses during the dry season helps you in saving and storing hays in your silo that you can use to feed them when the weather is not suitable for them to go outside. In case you are running out of grasses for your chicken to graze, you have the choice to start a new patch using a grass starter by purchasing it from Pierre. 

What Can I Get After Feeding My Chickens?

Logically speaking, growing chickens in your coop gives you eggs as the main product. Similar to real-life experience, it is also how things go in Stardew Valley. 

Reproducing more chickens in your coop increases the chase of you having a higher supply of eggs on your farm. But this doesn’t guarantee that all eggs will have the same quality once produced since chicken products highly depend on how you took care of them and how well-fed they are. Plus, your relationship with these animals also matters.

Eggs vary in size, color, and overall quality. The different types of eggs that you can obtain from your chickens are normal white eggs, brown eggs, large white eggs, and large brown eggs. It is expected that your chicken can only produce large eggs if you have sufficient friendship with it.

But what can you possibly do with this huge number of eggs inside your coop? You’ll be surprised to know that there are also lots of things you can do with your chicken eggs aside from hatching them under an incubator.

Here is a list of all the goods that you can craft or cook using a single egg.

• Mayonnaise

• Fried Egg

• Omelet

• Pancakes

• Chocolate Cake

• Pink Cake

• Cookie

• Blueberry Tart

• Crab Cakes

Except for mayonnaise which is an artisan good, when the player consumes any of these goods restores a specific number of its health and energy. Some goods also provide buffs upon eating them.