Announcements

Chicken IDs have officially entered the 6-digit range Based on recent community discussions, it seems that many users have been struggling with coop space. We're happy to announce two changes to address this:

1. You can now buy, trade, and hatch (+basket hatch) chickens if you have available coop slots OR Rest Nests. If you only have Rest Nests available, the new chicken will automatically be sent there.
2. The number of Rest Nests you get from both purchases and account age has been doubled.
   • Your number of acquired Rest Nests should have automatically doubled.
   • Every Rest Nest purchase will now get you 2 nests.
   • Every month of account age will now give you 2 nests.

A couple of other smaller changes in conjunction with this:

• The coop and roost sorting pages have been updated so you can sort sleeping chickens along with the rest of the coop. They will return to their sorted position when they wake up.
• Removed the outdated "trades have changed" notice.

Thank you players for your continuing interest in the game and I hope that these changes help streamline your gameplay (and hoarding) experience!

The colourful eggs all began to hatch at the same time. Suddenly, in their place stood chickens with the exact same colours and patterns…happy April Fool's Day!

(We hope you enjoyed the eggs; as a memento, chickens' EggPet appearance can be found on their Special Looks pages, linked on their profiles.)

When you visit your coop this morning, you notice that something's different. It is unusually...quiet. Not a single cluck or pecking noise. When you finally poke your head inside to check on your chickens, you're startled to notice...all your chickens have all turned into eggs!

But it's not just your chickens: every chicken on the site has turned into an egg. Eggs in every colour and pattern! The chickens in Clucky Clicker are eggs! The random chicken in Chickrew is an egg! Even mum is an egg!?

Slowly, you lift your head to the navigation bar and realise that the website is no longer called ChickenPet. No, it has seemingly changed into EggPet overnight.

Peering at the calendar, you then notice it is the 1st of April in UCT. It seems like on this day, perched perfectly between the mods' birthdays, Transgender Day of Visibility, and Easter Sunday...the Eggening has occurred.

This will simplify Easter preparations, you suppose. (That is, if you celebrate Easter.)

Now beta testing the new Authorisation Lists feature : a way to finely control over who can view and buy your listings. Some features:

• Create authlists and populate them with users - all authlists are private
• You can quickly import friends and blocked users into these lists
• Apply authlists when creating or editing your Farmhouse listings
• Authlists can either be set to
  • Block (users on the authlist cannot view the Farmhouse listing) or
  • Allow (the Farmhouse listing is only visible to people on the authlist)
• You can set a default visibility that gets applied to all your listings that don't have a different setting. It defaults to public (the previous behaviour).

This is quite a complex feature and I'm still ironing out the UI. Please let me know in a "Suggestion" ticket if you feel that the design can be improved! And if there are bugs, do report them in a ticket as well.

This feature aims to address a few needs / uses:

• An alternative to blocking to control access to Farmhouse sales listings
• Preclaim lists for hatcheries and other kinds of sales
• Convenient private sales without using the Trade feature

We hope that this new feature will help with curating your game experiece. Thank you for playing ChickenPet!

Saving up for something but can't stop spending it? You can now stash your eggs, seed and chickets (?!) in the fridge! Keep them out of sight so that you always have a little extra for a rainy day.

You can find the fridge under the Items + currency menu in the top bar. Stored currency will not be usable or tradeable until it is moved from the fridge and back into your active currency.

The population of ChickenPet is growing. The completely-hypothetical regional development council is happy to inaugurate three new Eggspedition maps: West Valley, West Highway and East Crossing!

With this, we introduce a new terrain type: roads! Roads cost 0 steps to walk on, but rewards will never appear on them.

Remember to be careful when crossing them, lest you get to the Other Side...

Did you put the wrong chickens on the nest? Just need the nest space back? Introducing the Shoo Horn, an item that functions as a nest undo: it shoos the chickens off the nest, removing the nest egg as well as the parents' cooldown.

Get it for 200 eggs at the Eggschange and then use it either from your inventory or in the nest page.

As this is a pretty big change that touches many features, please let me know in a ticket if you run into any bugs!

ChickenPet is officially in registration queue mode. This means:

• There are no more limited site slot opens. You can register for an account anytime.
• All new accounts will be inactive at first, and added to a queue. Once your account reaches the front of the queue, it will be activated and you can start playing.
• You can use an invite code to skip the queue. Either enter it when registering, or if you've already waiting in queue, use it to activate your account at the Activate page. We look forward to welcoming you to the site!

Join the queue

(If you're seeing this announcement in logged-in view, feel free to forward the link to people who might be interested to join!)

Here in the southern hemisphere, we have the pleasure of celebrating December seasonal holidays amid heatwaves and thunderstorms. As such, we're offering your chickens 100% season-appropriate wear! Shades are designed to stack with glasses so you can have lenses a different colour from frames. Try them in the Dressing Room or buy them at the Eggschange...and don't forget to Slip, Slop, Slap!

The number of invites to be won per week has been increased to 10! You can now also transfer invites directly between accounts. Go to your Invites page, pick an invite, type the name of the user you'd like to give it to, and click "Go". (You cannot transfer invites to blocked/blocking accounts.)

Also, a couple of new features have been added as tokens of appreciation to users who contribute to the site:

• You'll now receive a free site invite when buying the $10 egg pack and 3 invites when buying the $36 egg pack. These invites are valid for 60 days.
• Contributors now have the option to display their recent contributor status for 30 days after buying an egg pack. This is opt-in—simply click "Get contributor badge" on the purchase confirmation page, or on your Manage purchases page. Doing so will show a star icon in your nametag in place of the default torso icon. You can remove this contributor badge anytime on the Manage purchases page.

And if you've read this far, here's a spoiler for you: There will be new accessories for the holidays...but they may not be what you're expecting

a.k.a. The Long Portended Hat Update. I've been teasing these hats for a year. They're finally here for Halloween 2025.

Introducing 3 full-head hats: Sunhat, Service Cap, and Beret!

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

Some chicken combs (Lorge, Flick and Puff) will deform when wearing full-head hats, while all other combs will be completely covered by the hats. Have fun dressing up your chooks! This was quite a large and complex change to chicken rendering, so I took extra time with testing, but there may still be bugs, so please let me know in a ticket if you run into any new bugs with chicken sprites. Happy Halloween!

Chooky Clicker, the version of Clucky Clicker that uses features, is here! Turn your Clucky Clicker board into Chooky Clicker with the button at the bottom of the page. You can switch between them as often as you like.

Streak bonuses have also been added. Every 10 you get right in a row, you gain +1 seed per correct click (with a maximum bonus of +5 seed). Hope that this makes the game more interesting to play!

The much-requested tag system is here! Tag chickens on their profiles or in the coop management page to easily organise them without using roosts. You can filter your entire coop or specific roosts by a tag.

You can find your tag management page from the settings dropdown, where you can mass untag or rename tags. Please report any bugs or weird behaviour with this feature in a ticket. Enjoy!

Tired of searching for the same 2 chickens over and over again in the breeding screen? Save yourself some scrolling and searching with the brand new speed dial feature! Find it in the Breed page. Feature is currently in beta; if you run into a bug, do file a ticket.

Edit: note that to add a pair to speed dial, you need both chickens to be currently selectable in the breeding page (i.e. not on cooldown and not asleep). I may add a dedicated page for creating speed dial pairs even when they're not available in the future!

Pearls

Clutching them...wait, these aren't eggs.

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

This accessory has been pending release for several months now so I'm happy to present...pearls! Give your chicken that classic flair. Look right at home in the early 1900s. Huh, what are the 1900s? Haven't chickens only existed for 1 year?