InRanch Simulator, chickens are the first animals introduced to you at the beginning of the game and are the cheapest among the animals you can place on your ranch. If you want to manage a ranch, chickens will provide you with the first challenge needed to prepare for it.

They won’t bring you a lot of income, but since they are cheap, you can buy many of them, making them cost-effective. If your goal is to get eggs or hatch and raise chicks, chickens are perfect for your ranch. In this guide, we’ve prepared everything you need to know about chickens.

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How To Get Chickens

Chickens are the first animals you encounter in Ranch Simulator. After completing or skipping the tutorial, you will obtain two chickens and a small coop. You can buy chickens and roostersfrom the General Store.Each chicken costs 50 dollars, while roosters are priced at 250 dollars.

Both animals come in three color variations, but these are purely cosmetic and offer no advantages or disadvantages.

The player is crouching in front of the medium sized coop in Ranch Simulator

How To Keep Chickens

you’re able to house your chickensin coops.Alternatively, you can create a custom area for them using fences. However, coops are generally more effective at keeping them contained. You can find all the available coopsin the blueprint book under the fourth tabfrom the top.

The table below lists the materials required for each coop, as well as the recommended number of hens per coop:

The player is inside a coop and looking at food and water troughs in Ranch Simulator

15 wood planks

20 wood planks, 7 metal

The player is using a ovoscope and spots a fertilized egg in Ranch Simulator

50 wood planks, 25 metal

65 wood planks, 35 metal

The player is looking at a coop that contains roosters, chickens and one chick in Ranch Simulator

100 wood planks, 52 metal

No more than 30 hens.

Coops with higher hen capacity will make egg collection much easier for you.

What Chickens Eat And Drink

To meet your chickens' food and water needs, you canbuild small food troughs and small water troughs.If you don’t want to spend resources on these, you can simply scatter grain directly on the ground and place water in a bucket within their reach. Both the small food trough and small water troughrequire six wood planks each.

Regardless of where you place them, it’s smart tobuild multiple troughsto ensure your chickens have backup food and water when you’re away. You can buy their feed, a bag of wheat,from the General Storefor thirty dollars.

The player is interacting with a basket that contains 36 eggs in Ranch Simulator

For water, you canpurchase a water tankfrom the same store for 30 dollars. Using a bucket, you can draw water from the tank and either fill the troughs or leave the bucket itself out for them to drink from.

How Chickens Lay Eggs

If there’s a rooster inside the coop or enclosure,one of the hens will be fertilized every day at 10:00.If you have a rooster and check your coop, you will find a fertilized egg. Keep in mind,each rooster fertilizes only one hen per day.In addition, all hens will lay an unfertilized egg every day at 16:00.

How To Spot Fertilized Eggs

There are two ways to distinguish between fertilized and unfertilized eggs. The first is through the hen’s behavior — if you pick up a fertilized egg,the mother hen will attack you.This attack isn’t deadly; you’ll just see a damage animation. The second methodinvolves the ovoscope, which you can buyfrom the General Store for 100 dollars.

Place the ovoscope in a dark area, turn it on, and insert an egg into it. If the egg is fertilized,you will see a black mark inside.If not, the egg will appear completely clear.

How To Hatch And Raise Chicks

Fertilized eggs will hatch into chicksafter about three days.These chicks willmature into either hens or roosters after approximately four more days.The gender is randomly decided as they grow, but the chance of getting a rooster is lower than getting a hen.

If your coop contains more than the recommended number of hens,fertile eggs inside that coop may not hatch into chicks.Therefore, you need to be careful with capacity management. The best approach is todedicate one coop exclusively to hensand place roosters in a separate coop, along with a matching number of hens.

This way, you can produce chicks in that coop. Once the number of hens exceeds the rooster count, you can either slaughter the extra hens or transfer them to another coop.

How To Sell Eggs & Chicken Products

To collect eggs more efficiently, instead of placing each one into your vehicle individually, it’s much smarter touse a basket.A single basket canhold up to 40 eggs.

Eggs can be sold to the General Storefor six dollars each, but a better option is towait until Best Burger requests eggs.If you catch a good cash multiplier at that time, you may sell your eggs for a much higher profit.

You can kill chickens with a handgun or stun gun, after which you can either sell their meat directly or process it into meatballs or sausages for better profit. Additionally, if you want, you can sell your grown chicks to the General Store.