Cottage Living: What About Those Chickens?

I had to vote other because my chickens have never attacked anyone. I keep them happy. :)

Same as Stormkeep.

I'm terrible at keeping my chicken's happy, but I've never had more than a moodlet saying that the sim was pecked by an angry chicken, let alone death by chicken. Probably because I feed them, clean the coop, take the eggs and leave them alone.

"GalacticGal;c-18042159" wrote:
Up until the heavy rain hit my Sims were very good at keeping their chickens happy.

Did the rainstorm make the chickens super upset? I've never seen that happen yet and I have two coops with 8 chickens in each coop in my current game. I need to be careful!

"DaWaterRat;c-18042228" wrote:
I'm terrible at keeping my chicken's happy, but I've never had more than a moodlet saying that the sim was pecked by an angry chicken, let alone death by chicken. Probably because I feed them, clean the coop, take the eggs and leave them alone.

Generally, that's how my Sims do it, too. I do know that Sir Buttercup, as a chick, was suddenly threatening to leave due to 'neglect'. It's very hard to go out into that really heavy rain. But I sent them out anyway to at least feed the chickens and clean the coop, too. It rained like that for three days running. Maybe they should have gathered the chickens into the coop?

"GalacticGal;c-18042443" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18042228" wrote:
I'm terrible at keeping my chicken's happy, but I've never had more than a moodlet saying that the sim was pecked by an angry chicken, let alone death by chicken. Probably because I feed them, clean the coop, take the eggs and leave them alone.

Generally, that's how my Sims do it, too. I do know that Sir Buttercup, as a chick, was suddenly threatening to leave due to 'neglect'. It's very hard to go out into that really heavy rain. But I sent them out anyway to at least feed the chickens and clean the coop, too. It rained like that for three days running. Maybe they should have gathered the chickens into the coop?

Maybe. I always give my sims Storm Chaser, and Waterproof if they're going to be taking care of something that requires going outside (gardening, farm animals) so I'd send my sims out even in the worst weather with no concerns.

There are times when a chicken will glitch out and not eat, or if you've got more than 4 chickens, you need to hit scatter feed twice to make sure they all have food.

"Stormkeep;c-18042274" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18042159" wrote:
Up until the heavy rain hit my Sims were very good at keeping their chickens happy.

Did the rainstorm make the chickens super upset? I've never seen that happen yet and I have two coops with 8 chickens in each coop in my current game. I need to be careful!

That would most certainly be my guess. The fact that the camera didn't jerk me away from where it was pointed out to where Erik was fighting for his life is very odd. I have never once had this happen before where a Sim is dying and the camera doesn't move you to that exact spot at that moment. I never even saw Grimmie! Even when the chickens grow old and die, no matter where my camera is trained, it moves to the dying chicken. I even had it jerk away to a fox mildly known by my family when he lay dying. :open_mouth:

This is why I believe it was a glitch. Erik was simply removed from my game. Is Thorne Bailey behind it? Was he sick and tired of losing to his former neighbor? Too many questions and a very unhappy family. I exited without saving and restarted that save. Erik was attacked, backed into the stone wall (and I do mean INTO).

https://i.imgur.com/LYSpVw5.jpg

I snapped this photo prior to exiting that game without saving:

https://i.imgur.com/8rusB4j.jpg

"DaWaterRat;c-18042491" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18042443" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18042228" wrote:
I'm terrible at keeping my chicken's happy, but I've never had more than a moodlet saying that the sim was pecked by an angry chicken, let alone death by chicken. Probably because I feed them, clean the coop, take the eggs and leave them alone.

Generally, that's how my Sims do it, too. I do know that Sir Buttercup, as a chick, was suddenly threatening to leave due to 'neglect'. It's very hard to go out into that really heavy rain. But I sent them out anyway to at least feed the chickens and clean the coop, too. It rained like that for three days running. Maybe they should have gathered the chickens into the coop?

Maybe. I always give my sims Storm Chaser, and Waterproof if they're going to be taking care of something that requires going outside (gardening, farm animals) so I'd send my sims out even in the worst weather with no concerns.

There are times when a chicken will glitch out and not eat, or if you've got more than 4 chickens, you need to hit scatter feed twice to make sure they all have food.

Thanks for the tip! Erik has been struck by lightning at least twice (two separate occasions) in this game save already. LOL Yikes.

Up until the heavy rain hit my Sims were very good at keeping their chickens happy.