Stardew Valley - it's not just cereals; farmers can also breed animals. Although the animals in the game cannot be raised for meat, they produce eggs, wool, and more, allowing you to generate income from your farm.
In order to keep small animals such as chickens on your farm, you need to build a poultry house and upgrade it as your farm grows. Whether you're about to set up your first birdhouse in the game, or just trying to figure out if you're missing out on any important details about bird breeding, this guide will provide you with comprehensive information about everything about birdhouses in Stardew Valley.
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How to build and upgrade a poultry house in Stardew Valley
It is very simple to build a poultry house - you just need to collect the necessary materials, save up enough money and visit Robin when she works in a carpentry shop in the mountains. Chickens, ducks, rabbits and even dinosaurs can live in the poultry house, but first you need to unlock the corresponding level of the farm building.
Once you have unlocked all levels of the poultry house, you will be able to keep any animals in any poultry house, regardless of its size.
Poultry house improvements
| Characterization | Poultry house | big poultry house | Elite poultry house |
| Details of construction | Can be built from scratch. It takes three days to make. | Must be built using an existing poultry house on your farm. The update takes two days. | Must be built using an existing large poultry house on your farm. The update takes two days. |
| Required building materials | Xnumx gold 300 wood 100 stones | 10 gold 400 wood 150 stones | 20 gold 500 wood 200 stones |
| Number of animals | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| unlockable animals | Chicken (unlocked after building the first poultry house of this size, it can be bought from Marnie) | Duck (unlocked after building the first poultry house of this size and can be bought from Marnie). Void Hen (Unlocked by hatching a Void Egg in a poultry house of this size). Dinosaur (unlocked by hatching a dinosaur egg in a poultry house of this size). Golden Hen (Unlocked by hatching a golden egg in a chicken coop of this size). | Rabbit (opens after the construction of the first poultry house of this size, it can be bought from Marnie). |
| Size | 6 cells long, 3 cells wide | 6 cells long, 3 cells wide | 6 cells long, 3 cells wide |
| Special Features | Feeder | Feeder Feeding trough | Feeder Feeding trough Incubator |
Explanation of features of the poultry house
Feeding trough - this is a long wooden fixture at the back wall of the house, used to feed your animals. The hay you put in the feeder will eaten during the night by animals living in the aviary.
The feeder will resize every time you upgrade your birdhouseso that it can fit enough hay to feed the maximum number of animals that the building can accommodate.
Feeder - an item included in the basic equipment of the poultry house. It allows you to get access to all hay stored in silos on your farm.
Incubator added when you upgrade a basic poultry house to a large one house-houseа. If you place eggs in this incubator, they will hatch the corresponding animal.
| egg type | Time to hatch (minutes) | Time to hatch (days) |
|---|---|---|
| Egg (white) | 9000 | 6,25 |
| Egg (Brown) | 9000 | 6,25 |
| Big egg (white) | 9000 | 6,25 |
| Big egg (brown) | 9000 | 6,25 |
| Яegg emptiness | 9000 | 6,25 |
| golden egg | 9000 | 6,25 |
| duck egg | 9000 | 6,25 |
| dinosaur egg | 18000 | 12,5 |
The last upgrade you unlock when you upgrade to the Elite Aviary is feed supply system. It eliminates the need to go into each coop and put hay in the feeder, it will distribute automatically as long as there is enough in your silos.
Inhabitants of the poultry house
Chickens
- How to unlock and get: build your first poultry house and then buy chickens from Marnie for 800 gold.
- Produce: eggs every day (or large eggs when sufficient friendship and mood levels are reached).
- Related craft items: mayonnaise made by placing eggs in a mayonnaise machine.
- Sale price with full friendship: Xnumx gold.
Chickens are simple and unpretentious animals to keep on your farm. They cost very little, but can bring huge profits.
| Type/Quality | Ordinary qualitiesoh sale price | Silver qualitiesoh sale price | Gold qualitiesoh sale price | iridium qualitiesoh sale price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egg/Brown egg | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| Large egg/Large brown egg | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| Mayonnaise | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
You may have seen other Stardew Valley players blue chickens. To get them, you you need to score eight friendship hearts with Shane and see his event with eight hearts.
Thereafter every time you have a new chick (by hatching or shopping at Marnie) Yes 25 percent chancethat the chick will be blue. This is purely an aesthetic change. - Blue Hen will not produce blue eggs with special qualities or with a higher selling price.
Ducks
- How to unlock and get: build your first large poultry house and then buy ducks from Marnie for 1200 gold.
- Produce: duck eggs every two days (or a duck feather once sufficient friendship and mood levels have been reached).
- Related craft items: duck mayonnaise made by placing duck eggs in a mayonnaise machine.
- Sale price with full friendship: Xnumx gold.
The extra income you earn from duck eggs compared to chicken eggs, slightly overshadowed by the fact that a duck will only lay an egg every two days. However, they are still a worthwhile investment for your farm.
| Type/Quality | Ordinary quality, selling price | Silver quality, selling price | Golden quality, selling price | Iridium quality, selling price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| duck egg | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| duck feather | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| duck mayonnaise | Xnumx gold | N / A | N / A | N / A |
Rabbits
- How to unlock and get: build your first elite poultry house and then buy rabbits from Marnie for 8000 gold.
- Produce: wool every four days (or rabbit feet, once enough friendship and mood has been reached).
- Related craft items: fabric made from wool on a spinning wheel.
- Sale price with full friendship: 10 gold.
Rabbits are suitable for more advanced Stardew Valley players as they do not bring instant profit. However, if you can save on costs, they are great for getting extra wool.
| Type/Quality | Ordinary quality, selling price | Silver quality, selling price | Golden quality, selling price | Iridium quality, selling price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wool | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| Rabbit's foot | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| the cloth | Xnumx gold | N / A | N / A | N / A |
Chickens of the Void
- How to unlock and get: Obtain a Void Egg (through a random event or purchase from Krobus) and hatch it in a large or elite poultry house.
- Produces: emptiness egg every day.
- Related craft items: void mayonnaise, made by placing void eggs in a mayonnaise machine.
- Sale price with full friendship: Xnumx gold.
Void eggs sell for more than chicken eggs (although large chicken eggs that don't produce void chickens are still more profitable).
| Type/Quality | Ordinary quality, selling price | Silver quality, selling price | Golden quality, selling price | Iridium quality, selling price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Void Egg | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| Mayonnaise of the Void | Xnumx gold | N / A | N / A | N / A |
Dinosaurs
- How to unlock and get: get a dinosaur egg and hatch it in a large or elite poultry house.
- Produces: dinosaur egg every seven days.
- Related craft items: dinosaur mayonnaise made by placing dinosaur eggs in a mayonnaise machine.
- Sale price with full friendship: Xnumx gold.
Dinosaurs are quite difficult to find - there are many ways to get a dinosaur egg, but each method has a rather low chance of getting one. Dinosaurs also only produce an egg every seven days, so while it's fun to keep them in your poultry houses, it's not always the best option..
| Type/Quality | Ordinary quality, selling price | Silver quality, selling price | Gold quality, selling price | iridium quality, selling price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dinosaur egg | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| dinosaur mayonnaise | Xnumx gold | N / A | N / A | N / A |
golden hens
- How to unlock and get: Harvest a golden egg (achieve 100% perfection and then buy from Marnie for 100 gold, or buy from Mr. Key for 000 Key gems, or get it through a random event with a witch), and then hatch it in a large or elite poultry house.
- Produces: golden egg every day.
- Related craft items: 3 units gold quality mayonnaise, prepared by placing one golden egg in a mayonnaise machine.
- Sale price with full friendship: Xnumx gold.
Although golden chickens do not sell very expensively with complete friendship, golden eggs have a high price, especially since you receive them daily.
| Type/Quality | Ordinary quality, selling price | Silver quality, selling price | Gold quality, selling price | Iridium quality, selling price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| golden egg | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
| Mayonnaise | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold | Xnumx gold |
Caring for your animals
mood and friendship
Mood and friendship are characteristics affecting the quality of the goods your animals produce. The better they are and the more they are friends with you, the better goods you will get.
| Characterization | Description | Actions affecting performance |
| friendship | Your friendship with an animal will be judged by scale from 0 to 1000, but when interacting with an animal, it is displayed as a scale of five hearts. Half a heart is equal to 100 friendship points. | Stroking an animal: +15 Milking or haircut: +5 Feeding fresh grass outdoors: +8 Not fed: -20 Night on the street: -20 Not Stroked: from -5 to -10 |
| Mood | Mood maybe between 0 and 255. This characteristic of the animal is also tested by interacting with it and viewing its menu; its description is displayed in a small caption. Mood between 200 and 255: "<Animal name> looks especially happy today!" Mood 30 to 200: "<Animal name> is fine today." Mood 0 to 30: "<Animal name> looks sad today." | Feeding fresh grass outdoors: the mood is automatically set to 255. Stroking an animal: from +32 to +36 Animal feeding: from +4 to +16 In winter, when there is a heater in the animal room and their mood is already above 150: +4 to +8 every ten minutes after 6pm when the player is awake. If the animal is outside from 18:00 to 19:00 and its mood is already below 150: from +4 to +8 every ten minutes. Animal outdoors in the rain or winter: -4 to -8 every ten minutes. The animal is outside after 19:00: -4 to -8 every ten minutes. The animal is forced to sleep outside: mood is halved. Not Stroked: — 20 to -40 Not fed: -100 |
Feeding
All animals must be fed daily. If they are not fed, that day will not count towards the production of their goods.
Usually animals are fed hay using a feeder, so keep an eye on your hay supplies to make sure they don't run out.
However, animals can also eat grass that grows on your farm. For this you will need open the door to let them roam outside, but make sure there is enough grass nearby.
And yet what is outside is grass, which they can are, does not mean that they will eat her especially if it is too far from the poultry house. On the other hand, allowing them to eat grass rather than hay will boost their mood levels.
There are some when the animal does not need to be fed:
- On the first day of life (either the day they hatch or the day you bought them from Marnie)
- All days of the festival (the only exception is the Night Market, a three-day event that only takes place at night).
Sleeping animals on the street
Closing the house door before the animals return home, you will force them to spend the night on the street. If this happens, they will automatically become grouchy the next day. There is also a small chance that they can be attacked at night - in this case they will be lost to you forever.