How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

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How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

Chickens are a common passive creature that may be bred for feathers, eggs, and raw chicken in Minecraft. They have a white body with short yellow legs, flapping wings that flap as they fall or jump over a block, and red wattles under their mouths. They will travel aimlessly through the world while avoiding cliffs. When the chicken is cucking or laying an egg, players can hear it.

Because seeds are more available than wheat, chickens are the easiest animals to breed, and they produce eggs that may be thrown to produce chicks. Chickens have one of the lowest health values of any game animal, only being surpassed by certain fish. Chicken eggs are used to make a variety of foods in the game, such as cake and pumpkin pie.

Chickens spawn in groups of four on grass blocks with two blocks of free space above them with a light level of nine or higher in the Overworld. Deserts, snowy slopes, ice spikes, snowy plains, meadows, jagged peaks, wooded badlands, frozen summits, and stony peaks are all places where they do not spawn. Chickens are more plentiful in sparse jungles in Java Edition.

Chickens in Bedrock Edition spawn in groups of 2 to 4 and require a light level of 7 or higher to spawn.

A 5% chance exists for all baby zombie variations and baby zombified piglins to spawn riding a chicken, making a chicken jockey. Because a baby zombie appears in 5% of zombie spawns, chicken jockey spawns makeup 0.25 percent of all zombie spawning in an environment without chickens; if chickens are there, the chance rises to 0.4875 percent.

Items may be equipped by chicken jockeys when they spawn. The golden sword is always wielded by baby zombified piglin counterparts of the chicken jockey. The zombified piglin does not attack if the chicken is harmed or killed.

Chickens spawn individually after the world generation. Only 5% of chickens spawn as chicks.

When an adult chicken is killed,

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  • 0–2 feathers are shed. With each level of Looting, the maximum increases by one, up to a maximum of 0–5 with Looting III.
  • 1 raw chicken (cooked chicken if killed while on fire). With each level of Looting, the maximum increases by one, up to a maximum of 1–4 with Looting III.
  • 1–3 emerald if a player or domesticated wolf kills it (10 if it was part of a chicken jockey).

Chickens who were not part of the chicken jockeys produce one egg every five to ten minutes.

They drop 1–7 emeralds when they breed.  Killing a newborn chicken will not provide you with any things or experience.

Chickens are active and move randomly, with chicks following their parents. They are immune to fall harm since they flap their wings and fall slowly. They do not, however, fall over cliffs. When they are threatened, they flee. Chickens, unlike humans, seek to ascend stairs by jumping up instead of climbing them naturally.  Ocelots, foxes, and uncontrolled cats, [Java Edition only] attack them. Within six blocks, chickens follow players holding various seeds.

Unless it is, or was, a part of a chicken jockey, a chicken lays one egg every 5–10 minutes (6000–12000 ticks) when in a loaded chunk. A pop sound is heard if the player is nearby a chicken when it lays an egg.

Chickens can swim by flapping their wings and keeping on the surface of the water. Chickens just require one block of air over their heads while swimming.

How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

Now that you know about Chickens, let’s discuss breeding them.

Items required to breed Chickens

  • Two Seeds

In Survival mode, find tall grass and gather it to add seeds to your inventory. When you shatter your first block of tall grass, you are unlikely to acquire seeds. You’ll have to keep breaking down the thick grass blocks until seeds appear. The seeds will float to the surface of the ground.

You can use any type of seed, however, standard wheat seeds are the most popular, so use those to make things easier for yourself.

  • Two Chickens

Chickens spawn in groups of four on grass blocks with two blocks of free space above them with a light level of nine or higher in the Overworld. You can also find them in Sparse Jungles in Java Edition.

If you’re having problems finding a chicken, you can either use a cheat or a spawn egg to summon one.

How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

Directions to breed Chickens

  1. Firstly collect all the required items. When breeding, your chickens will need to stay near together, so you can build a fence to restrict the two birds from fleeing.
How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft
  1. After that, you must feed the seeds to each of the chickens one at a time, using the seeds you selected in the hot bar.

The game control for using/feeding seeds to chickens is dependent on the Minecraft version:

  • If you’re using Java Edition on a PC or Mac, you can feed seeds to chickens by right-clicking on the chickens one at a time.
  • You must tap on the chickens if you are using Pocket Edition (PE).
  • You must press the LT button on the Xbox controller if you are using an Xbox 360 or Xbox One.
  • If you have a PS3 or PS4 console, you must hit the L2 button on the PS controller.
  • You must hit the ZL button on the gamepad if you are a Wii U user.
  • You must hit the ZL button on the controller if you are using the Nintendo Switch.
  • If you have Windows 10 Edition installed, you must right-click on the chickens one at a time.
  • If you’re using the Education Edition, you’ll need to right-click the chickens one at a time.
  1. Red hearts will emerge over the heads of chickens as you feed them seeds. Each of these chickens is preparing to fall in love.
How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

Once both chickens have been fed, they will approach each other and red hearts will appear over their heads.

How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

Red hearts will vanish after a few moments, and a lovely baby chick will stand in their place.

How to Breed Chickens in Minecraft

You’ll have two grown chickens and one baby chick at this point.

Your chickens would have to wait 5 minutes before breeding again.

You have finally bred Chickens in Minecraft, enjoy playing!

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