Announcements

Always running out of coop space? Good news: Rest Nests are here! Now, you can tuck your chickens into bed and make them not count towards your coop slots (they also don't lay currency eggs while there, among other status effects). You can buy an unlimited* number of Rest Nests, and also get one free per full month that you've been on the site. You can start sending chickens to bed either from your Coop status page or from their profiles.

This feature is hot off the press, so please send any bug reports about it as a ticket. Thank you!

* Slots start at 30 eggs, and each subsequent slot costs 30 eggs more than the last.

Rest Nest effects

When chickens are sent to a Rest Nest, they gain an Asleep status effect, which causes the following effects:

• Their sprite will be shown in a nest with their eyes closed
• They do not produce currency eggs at server rollover
• They cannot be bred
• Items cannot be used on them
• They cannot be used in minigames like Eggspedition and Heists
• They do not get hungry and are not fed by the "Feed all" button

After waking up, the chicken will return to their original roost in the original position. For a day after waking up, chickens will have a Waking Up status effect. Chickens that are Waking Up will not produce currency eggs at server rollover.

Protect your eyes from walking flashbangs! Now, you can now mark your chickens as eye-straining. You can also set how eyestrain-marked chickens appear (for you) in your settings or with the eye button in the quick menu: desaturated or desaturated + blurred. They will appear that way in both list views and profile views. Note that they will not appear filtered in small icon form (e.g. on the coop status page).

I am happy to hear opinions and feedback on how this can be improved, with the usual caveat that I'm really busy lately and may take time to get around to any changes!

Popping in to say: thank you to everyone who's been playing ChickenPet, and I hope you're enjoying it so far.

Regarding the lack of recent site updates: do not worry, your tickets and suggestions are not being ignored—there is only one dev working on this site (me) and I am currently working on wrapping up my doctoral thesis. Generally I will respond to any ticket that involves a refund or a game-breaking bug immediately, but others will probably sit for a bit. Thanks for your patience, and do sit tight. I will be back in a bit!

As I'm sure most have realised by now, but to confirm beyond a doubt, the ChiaPet rebrand was, in fact, a prank. That said I'm really happy that players seem to be enjoying it, so I will be extending chia time till noon UCT on 2nd April, which should cover majority of everyone's April Fool's.

I've seen some questions about what will happen to the chia after the event. First, all chia will disappear on 2nd April (progress is saved in the chicken's data) so get your pictures before then! But it may return in some other exclusive form in the future...we shall see

I have some exciting news to share: We're rebranding!

Previously, ChickenPet was attracting a very narrow target market. Our research revealed that our chicken-focused branding was the root cause. To broaden our market share, we're branching out to a more relatable brand image with higher growth prospects.

You can now convert your chickens into chia pets by clicking the "Make chia pet" link on their profile. Worry not—the new chia pet will retain the characteristics of the original chicken, but now you can water it to make its chia grow. Chia can be watered every two hours, and they will grow through 5 6 phases. Try it out today!

We are confident that our brand will blossom under this new branding strategy, and hope that this will seed new gameplay experiences. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your continuing support of ChiaPet as we navigate this exciting branding transformation. We hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

You can now gift eggs to fellow users! This is opt-in—enable it on your profile or settings page to start accepting egg gifts.

Note that gifts are not anonymous.

Make It Pop

Lumière wth an accent. (Greyscales the chicken, but keeps accessory colours.)

This was suggested by users! This filter is unsortable because it is applied underneath accessories.

Aura

Who needs a nightlight? (Adds glow behind the chicken.)

This filter is sortable; glow colour is affected by colour-changing filters placed before it. Only stacks up to 3.

In other news...

• New additions today: a page to view all your thread replies, Wheel of Hue's own full page, and a brand new dev alert subscription button!
• Site bugs now have a 50% chance of feeding chickens instead of a 100% chance like before. This is to prevent overloading the server with heavy requests.
• You can now sort your coop by SBP on the status page.

This is old news by now, but for those who missed it: You can now buy 7 expansions, taking you to a maximum of 240 chickens. Also note that expansion prices now plateau at 3500 , so all expansions from the 5th will cost that much. Happy hatching

Just letting y'all know a short while ahead just in case this impacts breeding plans:

• 2 new recessive genes will be released within the next few days. They are bred using 1. bar x half-lace and 2. bar x head.
• If you have any nests matching these at the time when the update arrives, there is a chance they will hatch as one of the new genes. Feel free to prep accordingly. (And yes, feel free to set up nests to try for the new genes ahead of time, too)

I appreciate you discussing the ongoing issues in a public forum, as the private moderation load for this issue has been very heavy. To clarify, the site will not take any direct action relating to the matter of chicken flipping or associated actions for managing one's buy/sale experience - do not send tickets relating to it, unless other existing rules have been broken. You are welcome to create resources for the site's general use relating to this.

However, there will be some UI and link changes in response to some of the thoughts shared in the thread.

The thread will remain available but will be made read-only 48 hours from creation, as I feel it has mostly run its course.

Hi all, many have come forward with concerns about both chickens getting released immediately after purchase for a small profit ("flipping") and the blocking of people who do it. I think that there needs to be a conversation, so I have set up a forum thread to support a constructive conversation about it. Principles I go by:

1. Chicken flipping is not against the rules. It's a legal way to use farmhouse and release.
2. I want players to have the ability to curate a game experience that is enjoyable. This includes setting up notices about ways they don't want to be interacted with, including not having their sold chickens immediately released.
3. This conflict is not surprising, other game websites have seen big disagreements about this exact same issue. It can't be helped that there are players in both camps—those who dislike flipping and those who prefer to do it—because these two groups play the game in a fundamentally different way. I do not see one as "truer to the game" than the other.

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• Because this is about people's different preferences and playstyles, keep in mind that you're playing this game alongside others who approach the chickens in a completely different way from you. It's not in my purview to police how people play, beyond rule breaking behaviour, so I can only ask you to be open minded about this.
• For those who don't like flipping, use a neutral tone when referring to the action, on the site + in the Discord server, i.e. "please don't flip/immediately release this chicken." Focus on the action, not the person. Focusing on people risks being hurtful/targeted and builds an atmosphere of distrust.
• You can use the block button however you like, but I'd also like to ask for people to consider a range of ways to address this in addition to blocking.
• For those who flip chickens, note that there's a subset of users who feel strongly negative about chicken flipping. This is usually because they have sold chickens cheaply with the intention of helping new players, or the sentiment that the chickens are living beings with stories, personalities and effort put into them. This may be noted in the sale listings/forum threads, and I suggest keeping those requests in mind to keep the space comfortable for all.
• EDIT: Also, always keep in mind that once you give a chicken away or sell it, you no longer have control over what happens to it. If you do not want your chickens flipped, always sell for higher than the release reward.

I would also like to apologise if the wording sounded targeted/coercive and have been revising the message as thoughts have come in. The truth is that I do have an opinion on this - as in there's one way that I prefer the site to be - and incorporating other people's ways of playing in how I administrate the site has been an evolving process as well! I think this site is past the point where I can simply decide for other people what I want it to be, it's too big and socially complex. I am currently too busy with the rest of my life to actively keep tabs on it so I would just like people to be kind to each other and remember we're all just humans who do things differently, and that is the best we can do 🙂

Feeling Blue

Don't ask the Literature teacher what it means. (Blue tones the chicken.)

Lumiere

This chicken hails from the advent of film. (Greyscales the chicken's colours.)

Try them in the Dressing Room | Buy them at the Eggschange

As a side note, I will be on extended break while I work on my PhD final seminar, most likely until the end of March. This doesn't necessarily mean no updates, just that updates + debugging will have a longer lead time!

Happy new year from ChickenPet!

#2025 MY TIME IS NOW

circlejourney

7 months • ZW

Reminder: time is up for the Secret Santa! If you have not received your gift yet, please ping me in #site-discussion on the Discord server or message me on https://chicken.pet/messages/create/circlejourney so that I can check who your sender was and prod them to send their gift / send you the 50 egg compensation if relevant.

In other recent news:

• You can now view the family trees of released chickens; link is on their release profile. Example
• Released parents and grandparents now show up in family trees.
• Blocked users are no longer able to buy your listing if you blocked them after they loaded a page with your listings on it, and now can't see your pages and vice versa.
• Ownership logs now show blocked users as (Blocked) or (User not found), depending on your settings - (User not found) is the same as a closed account