Eggs

[Robbert Raets]

Hens are settled creatures. They explore "their territory" very slowly. They crave a routinish life.

.....and will sing their beautiful (ahem) song (cot-cot-cot-cococot-cot-cot-cot) if you call them, to let you find them.

You could solve these problems by killing a bard and having this person reincarnated as a hen, methinks

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I was going to reply with all sorts of useless chicken knowledge that I have from growing up with a father who raised chickens as a hobby, only to find that Gez beat me to it. He is correct with all he says. Especially about the eating, flapping, pooping, and cot-cot-cotting. Thats about all they are good for. Well, you can also win nice ribbons at the county fair, should your character have a very fine chicken and come upon a fair to show her in.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Take a level of sorcorer and get a chicken familiar. I'm sure it would be more likely to cooperate.

 

[ArielManx]

Shoot! Reading the original post I was all excited that I'd get to use my experiences growing up on the farm to answer a question...but I've been beat to the punch.

Gez said it all, though. Chickens don't travel well and they don't lay every day. They aren't the smartest of creatures and they poop a LOT.

So...buy one and your adventurer will have a poopy dumb bird that's more trouble than it's worth. If you want a reliable food source on the road...HUNT.

Ariel

 

[Chimera]

Another (former) chicken raiser here.

No dice.

5-6 eggs a week (best case, which you won't see on an adventure) will NOT sustain one person. Not even one Halfling.

And I'd bet you'd get no further then your first trip away from the camp site to find your friends having a barbeque.

Mmmm....chicken!

 

[der_kluge]

hmm, so someone educate me. Chickens lay eggs, which someone mentioned were unfertilized? Right, so if a chicken lays an egg, how does it then become fertilized by the rooster? Do chickens have sex, or do roosters just fertilize the eggs?

Ok, so obviously I'm really ignorant here, but I'm not above asking.

 

[noretoc]

In my current adventure when my players were low level, the priest bought a cart, with some chicken cages ans chicken for eggs. He collected them when ever he could, and suplimented thier meals. (I not knowing anything about chickens, let it go with an egg every other day). Then he bought a bunch, and a rooster, so that the chickens would lay more. (kept in a seperate cage) and eventually a pig, so they could kill it on the road, and eat good. Well, I do remember the half-orc looking fondly at the chicken everytime they stopped. One day the priest, thinking of the half orc, said "ok, one of the chickens is not laying well" before he could finish the half orc had one chicken neck broken. When the cleric said "It wasn't that one", the half tried again to find the right one. They ate well that night. Then the chickens started having accidents. They would fall out of thier cages... some would end up dead by fright. one was found sat on, etc, etc, etc. It provided us with plenty of humor for months. That and thier suicidal donkey, No-Jo-jojojojo.

 

[Chimera]

hmm, so someone educate me. Chickens lay eggs, which someone mentioned were unfertilized? Right, so if a chicken lays an egg, how does it then become fertilized by the rooster? Do chickens have sex, or do roosters just fertilize the eggs?

Ok, so obviously I'm really ignorant here, but I'm not above asking.

Chickens have sex.

It's very quick. Afterwards, the Rooster tends to strut around like he owns the world. The Hen shakes herself off and tries to act like nothing happened.

Not much different from some humans.

 

[Mark]

You'll want to invest in a wand of silence to go with that chicken...

 

[Robbert Raets]

Chickens have sex.

It's very quick. Afterwards, the Rooster tends to strut around like he owns the world. The Hen shakes herself off and tries to act like nothing happened.

Not much different from some humans.

Now that's funny!