Animals/Chicken

Details
This is most inexpensive animal that can be purchased in Harvest Moon''. ''They can be purchased from Lillia at the Poultry Farm for 1,500G.

Stages
There are two stages of chickens: chicks and chickens. To have a chick, the player must put an egg in the incubator and after 3 days it would hatch.

Chicks

 * At this young premature stage, they are unable to produce eggs.
 * Even if the player feds the chick, their affection rate will not increase until they became an adult chicken.
 * Chicks are only obtainable by putting egg into the incubator.

Chickens

 * Adult chickens require love and proper care. They need to be fed and pick up in order to increase their affection level and keep them healthy.


 * After feeding them for consecutive days, it start producing eggs, which will give you a profit.


 * The higher the affection level, the better quality egg they produce.

Care

 * You cannot brush chickens. To increase affection, pick your chickens up each day. You can further increase affection by leaving chickens outside on sunny days.
 * Once you have one chicken, you can raise more by putting eggs in the incubator that is found on the bottom left of the shed.
 * Chickens eat feed while inside the shed and if you put them outside, they will forage their own food


 * If your chicken becomes sick, you can cure the, with Animal Medicine.

Animal Products
Chickens have it's own animal products. They produce eggs, which can also be made into mayonnaise with the mayonnaise maker.

Eggs
Healthy adult chickens will produce an egg daily. Eggs can be cooked, put into an incubator, shipped or given as a gift.

Mayonnaise
If you have a Mayonnaise Maker, you can now convert eggs into mayonnaise which will give you more money than shipping ordinary eggs.

== Trivia ==
 * If your chicken wins the Chicken Festival, they will lay better quality eggs.


 * Chickens are most likely to become sick or die if they are attacked by wild dogs. This can be prevented by creating a fence when animals are left outside over night.
 * Unlike later versions, there are only female chickens. You do not need a rooster to create fertilized eggs.