Automatic Chicken Farm 🐔 | Valheim 2024

[@Delta_Tesseract]

I give this farm two drumsticks up! 🍗🍗

[@PotatoePC]

I have come back to this a number of times to build this coop. Thanks for posting. I have modified it and made a second for farming eggs. moved the fire up top so they stay cold and I can collect those as well! Awesome work!!

[@e1kosayutub]

Update: May 2024 and it's working. Thank you for this easy and simple design.

[@stevejohnson6248]

June 30th 24' and working great.

[@dzinx0rrr]

as of June 2024 it works almost perfect with only one minor issue. Every now and then one chicken seems to get through the checkered area and goes all the way to the bottom. Not that it's any major problem and it's usually one per ten chicken or so. The rest stays up till maturing

[@stevejohnson6248]

Just made this, working like a champ. I tried a few other designs that failed until I found this one. Thanks!!

[@tonyh8166]

Ok, this is neat, and I'm sure it works, but I'm not fond of it just as it is because of its slow speed. Once you have the 2 layers and 8 eggs theyre at max pop and they'll stop laying till the eggs have hatched and the chicks have grown up and fallen down to the slaughter area, which takes 3 game days overall, plus whatever time it takes one to fall through to the killing floor. So basically you get 8 chicken meat every 3 days which is... slow. It also doesnt allow for much egg production, if you're a double-stamina food guy and want to make omelettes. However, the fix seems relatively easy- Add another 8m of height between the laying hens and the egg floor. That should keep the laying hens far enough from the eggs that they never reach the population cap and keep laying. Lot more eggs laid per time and thus a lot more chickens and eggs for the harvesting player according to need. The only question is how the greater number of chickens on the egg floor will interact with the holes down to the killing floor. Perhaps someone who tries the taller design can tell us. I think the drop straight down 10+m to the floor build is better for most PRACTICAL purposes- lots more chickens and/or eggs per time, and its not like its difficult or time consuming to slaughter your own chickens personally. If you prefer decorative appeal and 8 chicken meat every 3 days is sufficient for you then by all means go for this design. For warmth, instead of a brazier I'd just use a campfire inside a wooden chimney with a gap in the side just above the fire. Campfire on- eggs are warm and hatch. Place a floorpiece just above the campfire so its permanently choked- campfire is off and the eggs dont hatch so you can stock up for your omelettes if you're a 2-stam food player. And just break that floor piece whenever you want meat. I do like the laying hens eating through the floor just above them. I'll have to incorporate that into my design. Its not difficult to feed hens without it, but it can prevent the occasional whoops. I'll have to test that with boars and wolves too I think.

[@seakay3826]

Double stamina unless I play eitr build good to see there's some pros and cons

[@SirSmurfalot]

The chicks are staying in the wide part of hatching area and not falling through when they mature.

[@SirSmurfalot]

Fixed it by having 3 pillars on that wide area.

[@dannave7816]

Very creative. The chicks have a larger hit box than the hens so they won't fall through the smaller checkerboard holes. When they become hens, the hit box is smaller so they will fall down through the holes.

[@Zerger]

Precisely, it's odd but if it works it works

[@1234567895182]

Where do you go to find specific information like this. I have been trying to find info about hit box sizes, where the egg spawns relative to the hen and the exact conditions it needs to lay one, etc...

[@LillaMartin]

@@1234567895182 Well im just gonna take a guess now. I remmember i read just before Ashland dropped that people stared noticied in the code that Ashland stuff is slowling being added to the game. New content and such. Maybe its there people see it? If they know how to see it in the game files? Other than that im just guessing trial and error? see how hit boxes seem to be on chicks/hens.

[@samkaeppel1160]

​@@1234567895182the thing about a game with a smaller audience like this one is, there aren't mathematicians measuring every single thing and boiling the game down to its base code. I don't know the prerequisite for those kinds of people to spawn but valheim hasn't met that criteria yet.

[@panther_rawr4367]

Hmm, I built this design yesterday to the tee, was working all as intended. But after a day IRL, I came back to it and my breeder hens aren’t eating the food, therefore no eggs to hatch. Anybody else have this problem? Or any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks!

[@Kannerjb711]

Usually picking up the food and putting it back down starts it again

[@petrvokas8506]

@@Kannerjb711 have the same problem. Pickung food doesnt help. Rebulding the floor, where the food supposed to be neither. Maybe the hens slided a bit down.

[@Rare_K_]

for everyone having trouble with their chickens not wanting to turn upright, for me it was the roof o-corner 45 degree pieces that poke the chickens butt. as soon as i took those out, the chickens would turn upright, eat, and make eggs. i just put a 2 meter wall piece where they'd be originally, and move them on top of those.

[@慧月-q7u]

i have the same problem as you, as in the roof pieces clash with the breeder chickens and they wouldn't face upright. how did you get around this? i don't understand where the 2m wall piece is put. if the roof and stuff are removed entirely, for some reason the eggs stay too cold to incubate. please help me :(

[@Rare_K_]

@@慧月-q7u wall pieces go on top of the cage sides where the eggs are meant to fall

[@Heropsychodream]

My chickens were both upside down and I solved it by making 2 stacks of food and observing them from below. they turned up toward the food after a short time and it works well now.

[@LillaMartin]

Didnt know this still worked! Had a chick farm last i played but as i read this got patched :O I just used up 5k coins on chicks that walked into fire... forgot that suicidal thing they have... Gonna try this as fast i can get my hands on 2 chiks thanks!

[@Zerger]

Aye like moths to the flame 🤣

[@Red_Snapper]

The Hen's simply wont move over the checkered area, I built mine identical to the one in the video. After there's a certain amount of hens the top floor hens stops making eggs.

[@samkaeppel1160]

The simplest explanation is you didn't build it exactly like the one here or it would be working.

[@oiyouoverhere1112]

I have built two versions of this pen, exactly as shown, step by step to make sure I didnt miss anything. I run a collection of items mod so I don't need to personally pick up everything. My first build is an egg producer only, and comprises of the top of this build, from the part the chickens sit on and drop eggs to the floor below..... no culling area as its just an egg farm... works fine, but had some initial problems. The second build is exactly as shown apart from I have an alternative fire source nearby so don't need to build the brazier part. The chickens do not eat the food, placed where its shown in this video. Both farms are the same from the feeding part, but the chickens won't eat the seeds, in the full build.... I cannot figure out why

[@GAMMA_AF]

I'm having the same issue. Did you end up finding a solution?

[@oiyouoverhere1112]

@@GAMMA_AF I abandoned the full build, the breeder part works fabulously, but I decided, that his build works in creative with nothing around it, but in a survival playthrough, theres just too much crap that blocks it from working. I have to do the chicken culling the old fashioned way

[@GAMMA_AF]

@@oiyouoverhere1112 Damn, that's unfortunate. I guess I'll have to play around and come up with my own design. Or do it the old fashioned way :/

[@SirSmurfalot]

Funny how he pronounces brazier (a metal holder for coals) as one would brassiere (a woman's undergarment).

[@Kannerjb711]

I got one done successfully but I’m trying to do a second and the goddamn chickens won’t turn the right way and keep turning the wrong way when I pull them into place Update:my second chicken egg farm is complete with four chickens. SO EFFICIENT. I get 40 eggs every like 20 minutes or so if I afk nearby. The first one I built doesn’t work as well for some reason I constantly have to pick up and place the food back down. My other one I hear chicken calls constantly in the distance.

[@notedsinner3171]

My 3rd time building this in all 3 playthroughs. Love it. And it works.

[@FriedBananas642]

September 2024, still works well and looks really nice too! Huge W!

[@dominikingold5789]

The farm is kinda working thanks :) The only Issue I'm facing is that the chickens and hens are not walking over the chese like floor and therefor they only fall down when they get pushed, making it really slow. I've gone over the build now multiple times and can't find any differences... Do you have any tipps?

[@arzrael7473]

same issue

[@dominikingold5789]

@@arzrael7473 I fixed it by adding another small beam and large beam under the egg roof and then breaking the small one, just like you did for the other two after placing the roof

[@Delta_Tesseract]

In your previous video you mentioned sticky bait is used to fish up pufferfish, correct? Where do we find pufferfish though?

[@Zerger]

Recently I've seen them in the water randomly but they're supposed to be around the mistlands biome. I think it's sticky 🤔 Regular bait and a lox trophy

[@MrSageOlorin]

@@Zerger Its misty bait you want.

[@Zerger]

Ah, thank you

[@selalewow]

Most chicken breeders I have seen have been huge eyesores but this one looks nice and has a smaller footprint. I guess you can just remove the floor boards if you just want eggs.

[@skoniramont]

That even looks nice! Cool!

[@lukaszkulwicki]

ive wasted a lot of time checking one important stuff on this vid: how to exactly place the breeding chickens surroundings. If this would be an article, i'd use up to 5 minutes of my time. What a time to be alive.

[@Joeliustothemaximus]

First off, thanks for the tutorial! :) no idea if things have changed since bog witch update but I successfully managed to get them to produce 2 eggs before they just stopped eating. They're still facing the correct location. I've changed around various placements of seeds to no avail. Anyone else experienced the same?

[@GAMMA_AF]

After a while, my farm just fills up with full grown chickens on the middle floor. Some are stacked on top of each other, and none of them are walking around. I've built this exactly the same to a T, step by step.

[@hoyjerkoy592]

it does work somehow. but i notice they crowd at the right side of the growing chamber so sometimes it doesnt work even they are all grown hens since they are just all stepping at each other.any work around here? EDIT> just found out the first solution for the "stacking" but the next problem was that they are just now staying at the front and not walking in the checkered area.

[@TheDrackhenslager]

Can a second farm be built attached to this one (only for eggs) or will it mess up the chicken pathing?

[@Zerger]

Can do, but not attached directly next to it. You'll need at least 10m space between the chickens groups so they don't detect one another to avoid reaching the mob cap

[@TrickyThe0ne]

Made the farm and it has one issue im noticing the hens get stuck on the checkered floor and dont fall down at times. i see many other people talking about this as well, other than that it works great. especially if i go in manually and kill them when it fails

[@Wallllyyyyyy]

I have made the on the top floor exactly the same twice now but my hens keep facing downwards and don’t eat any seeds. Any tips? They mate a few times until they run out of food and that’s it. Everything else functions perfectly besides the feed

[@Zerger]

Test it by throwing down the food again then remove any walls/doors/roof that you placed so it's only the floor by itself at the top. If it works then your problem is there

[@virus9826]

They're stuck for me in the corner above the brazier. They never move at all, and I built your design twice. Has anyone been able to fix this and get them to move on the floor? Should I make that part checkered as well? As am just out of thoughts..

[@virus9826]

For those of you still facing the same issue, break the roofs above the brazier, and it'll work just fine!

[@Zerger]

Thanks for leaving your feedback for others who might have the same issue 👌🏻

[@sonelx]

I have rebuilt this twice exactly as is in video, both chickens are facing up but they will not eat. Seeds are placed between them on the gate above. Im not sure what is wrong. Another player on the server has built this as well and has no problems.

[@Deathrane1]

I had trouble after a short while as the distance to the eggs aparently wasnt big enough. i added a fev levels in hight and then it was perfect! Just did one again in a Ashland material desig :)

[@BenRabichow]

My Chickens/hens are not moving over the checkerboard section so they don't fall through consistently. Also I had a chicken fall through. Any suggestions?

[@OOBradm]

July 2024, working great

[@xGlorfindel1x]

my chickens didn't want to eat, so I added 1 meter below the 45 degree angles

[@gaborszabo4057]

not working for me for some reason :/ I build it exactly the same, except I used regular roofs and not the black one. My hens just look downwards, the first try they ate and reproduced, but I didn't leave the beams in the chick compartment so it didnt run around. I fixed that, but nothing works since. :(

[@gaborszabo4057]

**It's apparently working, but the hens are looking downwards and it is really slow :') Could someone confirm if it's slow for you too please?

[@xGiRoNiiK]

@@gaborszabo4057 try removing the 45 roof under the chickens wait for them to turn towards food then replace the roofs

[@Rubixter]

wish you gave a little more explanation on the purpose of those beams @ 5:03

[@auranoah9022]

My hens don't slide into the breeding spots like yours does. They get stuck just above and I can't place the floor on top of them.

[@kampfer91]

I build this one but different location instead of inside my base , one problem : the place where the egg from the breeding pair drop , as i teleport around using portal , the chick hatch from these eggs have tendency of glitch through the floor and land on 45 degree roof thus sliding into the puffer fish , it is like 1 in 10 chicks .

[@socalriders1646]

EVERYONE THAT SAYING IT DOESN'T WORK READ THIS 1. IT DOES WORK 2. WHEN THE CHICKENS CATCH THEY WONT FALL THROUGH. 3. THE GAME DEVS DON'T WANT TO GAME TO BE REALLY DARK SO YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY GROW UP THEN THEY FALL 4. GIVE IT SOME TIME FOR ALL CHICKENS TO CATCH IT WORKS GREAT. I HOPE THIS HELPS I JUST BUILT IT 3 HOURS AGO AND ITS INSANE

[@jaimelee8061]

What do you change to make this just an egg farm? - Remove the brazier? And leave a clear drop path for eggs to the first floor?

[@Zerger]

Yes that's about right, basically just build the top layer and nothing else. I'll make a new video in the future I think for a basic chicken coop/egg hut

[@jimp9458]

How do you get eggs? This build is chicken meat and feathers only.

[@roguegeek]

So my chickens keep looking down. What the hell am I doing wrong?

[@KAGAN.07]

bro hens eat once ı give them food but even if there is food they wont eat it again and stays hungry

[@avenger7800]

i love your vibes thanks for the design man its working great

[@irvinzapanta6069]

Update. Chickens don't die in cold anymore. Nothing happens

[@SteinbergerGPPRo]

I'm curious about what the purpose of the two "wings" sticking out of the cage are for? With the pillars there, the chicks can't seem to fit into that space at all.

[@Zerger]

It's to give more space when the eggs pile up so the chicks don't clip through the walls when they hatch but at the same time making that floor space invalid for their pathing to keep them walking around over the gaps. Otherwise they stand still in that area and don't move around

[@Manoswiech]

i build and rebuild it and for some reason chicks are staying on the spot eggs hach, and when the decide to move the chicks fall on the holes before growing up to hens, don't know how to fix it, is this farm directional ?

[@FDJUwe]

4:43 nice chicken impression

[@ToConnect2000s]

Still working as of 11/20/24

[@Neuralatrophy]

Will this work with 4 hens up top if I added a couple more spaces for em in front of the others ? I have a few mouths to feed and my sharp shooter goes through a lot of feathers for his arrows...

[@Zerger]

I haven't done this before but you should be able to make your own design if the eggs drop in the same landing area. Haha going all out I see

[@Neuralatrophy]

@Zerger i did a modification last night, base is the same but added a second drop zone on the other side and the top access is off the side. Had to drop a couple bars in a V so the feed lands in the middle of the hen cage. They all ate and eggs are dropping fine so far, might have to make it taller so they keep producing without chicken cap pause. Ill see if I can link some screenshots later.

[@Bobbobbobbobobobobo]

The chicks aren’t falling to where the pufferfish is

[@TrickyThe0ne]

They don’t fall until they are hens

[@Taraya_ff]

I made this. But my hens don't take the seeds 🙁 they turn the other way

[@Zerger]

Check your floor at the top is the size I mentioned. If that's ok remove any walls you've built or anything surrounding it that could be obstructing their pathing

[@Taraya_ff]

@@ZergerI think that's the problem. It seems to be top layer. When I remove top layer roof and walls They are eating normally. When I buit it again they stop eating 🙁

[@e1kosayutub]

Did you cover the 2 hens with two 1x1 iron rails? I built this design and it's working fine. The seeds should fall on the iron 1x1 cover.

[@blunderman450]

My hens won't eat what can it be?

[@franjjbossio]

Next time you should add a list of materials you need to do it, other than that great video

[@eriebrtogarnica744]

I keep having problems when my chicks hatch I throw the eggs on top floor but once they hatch they spawn outside, any tips on how to fix this?

[@kevinrix1824]

my chickens turned around and i dont know how to fix them. They made 3 eggs then turned. How do i fix it?

[@Zerger]

If they turned there's something obstructing the floor space on the top floor. Make sure the floor is the same size as mine

[@headyzmok]

it's still working!!

[@johnhare5918]

hi, can i delete log poles after completing the building? =)

[@keganchaves4254]

mine seam to be working but SO SLOW.

[@NatorNoah]

Does this work against all raids? (bat raids in specific cuz those are the worst). If not, how would you fix that issue?

[@Zerger]

Yup, I tested all 4 my boar, wolf, lox and this one with bat and drake raids and they weren't attacked

[@neondreams2337]

this worked for me once, and hasn't worked since, chickens stay hungry

[@Zerger]

Make sure nothing is obstructing the top floor space and it's the size I mentioned

[@avenger7800]

are the eggs supposed to stay on the roof? they are not falling down to the second floor on my build so i was wondering

[@Zerger]

No they are supposed to drop down but I've had it before that 3 or so pile up then after they hatch the issue resolved itself

[@lwoods32007]

My chickens wont eat!

[@juancamilocanasjaramillo9067]

Will you be able to get eggs from this aswell?

[@Zerger]

You could modify it I suppose, if you kill the heat source to stop the hatching on the second floor but this farm was really made specifically for chicken meat and feathers

[@albin8638]

Post blueprint anyone please?

[@KirkTheStampede]

Thank you 🙏

[@ImaRamblingman]

Are the chickens meant to stack and get stuck in the second layer?

[@Zerger]

Nope, any World War Z-like activities are strictly prohibited in this farm

[@ImaRamblingman]

@@Zerger What I'm finding is the chicks are stacking. When they turn from chicks to chickens they then get permanently wedged there, stuck in the corners, not able to move. Built it exactly the same though. Very odd.

[@Zerger]

Just some of them or all of them? I'm wondering if the pathing is somehow messed up

[@azlum000]

@@Zerger I made it too and I have 8 hens in lvl 2. They aren't really moving around to fall through the holes.

[@Zerger]

Yup, it's the pathing. It's really sensitive, you'll just have to keep comparing and find what the difference between yours and mine is. It's really frustrating trust me I know

[@vz8978]

Does it still work in the new version?