It is important to have a double door system to prevent chickens from getting out. The chickens AI causes them to try to escape any confinement. The AI tries to calculate an escape route, but cannot calculate one if there is a closed door. I always either enter from a trapdoor, down a ladder, and then through a wooden door, or though two wooden doors with a space between them. Occasionally, a chicken will get into the space between doors, and I dispatch it to the great chicken coop in the sky, but all in all it works pretty well.
I usually build about 5 blocks below the surface (usually safe from creeper blasts. When I get the coop area built, I build a dirt "staircase" to the surface and leave a small hole to get down into the coop. I then remove the bottom two levels of the 'stairs.' I go back through my house and lure as many chickens as possible down the dirt staircase. They will jump down that last two block drop, and will not be able to get back up. Once I have chickens for breeding, I take out the dirt stairs and close the roof of my coop. You can make the coop just about as large as you would like, and line the walls with whatever you'd like. I usually replace any dirt in the walls with cobblestone and leave a dirt floor, but that isn't necessary. You can have a skylight for the chickens if you like, but they do not need it to survive.
I often keep two chicken coops. One is a laying group, from which I only collect eggs. The other is hatched from the eggs of the laying group, allowed to mature and then slaughtered for chicken meat and feathers. You need about 12 to 15 in your laying group to get a good supply of eggs.
It is important to have a double door system to prevent chickens from getting out. The chickens AI causes them to try to escape any confinement. The AI tries to calculate an escape route, but cannot calculate one if there is a closed door. I always either enter from a trapdoor, down a ladder, and then through a wooden door, or though two wooden doors with a space between them. Occasionally, a chicken will get into the space between doors, and I dispatch it to the great chicken coop in the sky, but all in all it works pretty well.
I usually build about 5 blocks below the surface (usually safe from creeper blasts. When I get the coop area built, I build a dirt "staircase" to the surface and leave a small hole to get down into the coop. I then remove the bottom two levels of the 'stairs.' I go back through my house and lure as many chickens as possible down the dirt staircase. They will jump down that last two block drop, and will not be able to get back up. Once I have chickens for breeding, I take out the dirt stairs and close the roof of my coop. You can make the coop just about as large as you would like, and line the walls with whatever you'd like. I usually replace any dirt in the walls with cobblestone and leave a dirt floor, but that isn't necessary. You can have a skylight for the chickens if you like, but they do not need it to survive.
I often keep two chicken coops. One is a laying group, from which I only collect eggs. The other is hatched from the eggs of the laying group, allowed to mature and then slaughtered for chicken meat and feathers. You need about 12 to 15 in your laying group to get a good supply of eggs.
I have said this many times before, but I love to make a 5x5 pit with hoppers as the floor and an opened trap door as a step, then just throw as many eggs as you can in there. I you keep throwing all the eggs you get, you'll get a ton of chickens in no time
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97% of teenagers would cry if they saw Justin Bieber on top of a tower about to jump. If you're the 3% who is sitting there with popcorn screaming "DO A BACKFLIP", copy and paste this as your signature.
If you're looking for a coop, the easiest way to breed and contain them is to dig a 1 block deep hole in the ground the size you want, and place fence along the inside of the hole, so the chickens can't get out, but you can look down and breed them.
If you're looking to get some meat and feathers out of it as well, there's an automatic cooked chicken farm that i use in one of my worlds for all the cooked chicken i could ever want. It requires a little bit of redstone, but it's simple stuff. There's tons of tutorials on Youtube for them, so check them out if you're interested
Any idas?
I know, right. This is very disappointing...
so...
BACK OFF!!!!
"sssssssssss notch *bones*"
Just.... what?
Please, help my little dragon get the attention it deserves.
It is important to have a double door system to prevent chickens from getting out. The chickens AI causes them to try to escape any confinement. The AI tries to calculate an escape route, but cannot calculate one if there is a closed door. I always either enter from a trapdoor, down a ladder, and then through a wooden door, or though two wooden doors with a space between them. Occasionally, a chicken will get into the space between doors, and I dispatch it to the great chicken coop in the sky, but all in all it works pretty well.
I usually build about 5 blocks below the surface (usually safe from creeper blasts. When I get the coop area built, I build a dirt "staircase" to the surface and leave a small hole to get down into the coop. I then remove the bottom two levels of the 'stairs.' I go back through my house and lure as many chickens as possible down the dirt staircase. They will jump down that last two block drop, and will not be able to get back up. Once I have chickens for breeding, I take out the dirt stairs and close the roof of my coop. You can make the coop just about as large as you would like, and line the walls with whatever you'd like. I usually replace any dirt in the walls with cobblestone and leave a dirt floor, but that isn't necessary. You can have a skylight for the chickens if you like, but they do not need it to survive.
I often keep two chicken coops. One is a laying group, from which I only collect eggs. The other is hatched from the eggs of the laying group, allowed to mature and then slaughtered for chicken meat and feathers. You need about 12 to 15 in your laying group to get a good supply of eggs.
BTW, I go underground with pigs and cows as well.
thanks for it all it will help realy soon!
Im only 8 ok?
i dont even reamber what grammer is ok?
so if u can plz STOP WITH THE GRAMMER INSALTS WOULD YA?!?!?!?!?!
NOW THATS THE LAST TIME I'LL TELL YA'LL!!!!
P.S.: Apparently 'Correcter' isn't misspelled
wat
You're absolutely drenched in irony.
Ida is a pretty old-fashioned name. Good luck finding any in the forums.
yeah... i cant spell idea...,
IF thats even how U spell it...
ps thx for that tip spud!
And I thought chickens in mc were dim.
Sounds pretty ethically-minded.
I have said this many times before, but I love to make a 5x5 pit with hoppers as the floor and an opened trap door as a step, then just throw as many eggs as you can in there. I you keep throwing all the eggs you get, you'll get a ton of chickens in no time
97% of teenagers would cry if they saw Justin Bieber on top of a tower about to jump. If you're the 3% who is sitting there with popcorn screaming "DO A BACKFLIP", copy and paste this as your signature.
If you're looking for a coop, the easiest way to breed and contain them is to dig a 1 block deep hole in the ground the size you want, and place fence along the inside of the hole, so the chickens can't get out, but you can look down and breed them.
If you're looking to get some meat and feathers out of it as well, there's an automatic cooked chicken farm that i use in one of my worlds for all the cooked chicken i could ever want. It requires a little bit of redstone, but it's simple stuff. There's tons of tutorials on Youtube for them, so check them out if you're interested
build a KFC and sell the chicken to the villagers.
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