Announcements

Hi ChickenPetters! Recently, the charity we were donating to monthly, SRS, has stopped taking donations and chook sponsorships. It's not clear if this change is temporary or permanent; I will keep my eye on it. We have a second charity, Who Gives A Cluck.

I'd like to gather thoughts from the userbase on how we can change donations around this. Vote below!

You can read more about our charity donations here.

To add a layer of protection against your account being stolen, you can now set up two-factor authentication, either receiving OTPs via email or with a time-based authenticator app (like Authy). If you set both up, you will be able to select which one to use at login.

https://chicken.pet/settings

This feature has been in testing for a month, but there is still a chance you will run into bugs. If so, do send them either as a ticket, or through Discord in the unlikely situation where you can't access tickets.

Introducing egg baskets! On certain special days every year, you will receive egg baskets from the site. They can be hatched into random first-generation chicks, or turned into lots of currency eggs.

Related: Psst, users who joined before 31 October 2024 should update their birthdays in their settings as we only started recording birthdays after that!

You can view your egg basket page here. You won't see anything there yet...but keep your eye out.

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.