Our adorable feathered friends have made plenty of video game appearances over the years.

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 better know about chickens.

The player is looking at chickens on the left side and standing in front of two different coops on the right side in Ranch Simulator

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.

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

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However, coops are generally more effective at keeping them contained.

Medium Coop

20 wood planks, 7 metal

No more than 8 hens.

Big Chicken Coop

50 wood planks, 25 metal

No more than 20 hens.

The player is checking the chicken and rooster prices in the general store in Ranch Simulator

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

Both the small food trough and small water troughrequire six wood planks each.

For water, you canpurchase a water tankfrom the same store for 30 dollars.

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

How To Spot Fertilized Eggs

There are two ways to distinguish between fertilized and unfertilized eggs.

The second methodinvolves the ovoscope, which you’re able to buyfrom the General Store for 100 dollars.

Place the ovoscope in a dark area, turn it on, and insert an egg into it.

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

This way, you could produce chicks in that coop.

Additionally, if you want, you’re able to sell your grown chicks to the General Store.

We cover everything you oughta know about Chickens in Farming Simulator 25.

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

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

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

Chickens in Farming Simulator 25. They are roaming in a coop with grass pasture.

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