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Tales of the Shireis rife with things to do that befit the perfect life of a Hobbit. you’re able to forage for mushrooms, fish in the Shire’s idyllic streams and ponds, and establish a farm to get crops to sellor cook into meals.
Though you can only plant veggiesat the start ofTales of the Shire, you aren’t restricted to just planting seeds for crops – you can also unlock chickens which, when cared for, will produce eggs. This guide explains how to get chickens inTales of the Shire, how to take care of chickens, and what you get by having chickens in your garden.
How to Get Chickens in Tales of the Shire
To get chickens,Tales of the Shireplayers must befriend Farmer Cotton. Every named NPC inTales of the Shirewho can be invited to Shared Meals has a friendship meter that caps out at 10 Friendship. At certain friendship level milestones, each resident of Bywater will give you gifts, new home and farm features,or other quality-of-life upgrades.
The chicken will immediately appear in your garden along with a Trough to feed it. As you continue to raise your friendship level with Farmer Cotton (and his son, Young Tom), you can get up to a maximum of four chickens.
How to Feed Chickens & Get Eggs in Tales of the Shire
Like many farming sim games, youmust feed chickens to get them to produce eggs. Chickens can eat Grains, Seeds, and Nuts. You can use any Seed to feed your chicken, while only certain crops and foraged goods count as Grains or Nuts. Check the attributes of any items you plan to add to the trough to make sure they fall under one of these three categories.
To feed chickens inTales of the Shire, you must interact with the Trough outside your window in the garden (though the Trough position can be moved). Select any Nut, Grain, or Seed item from your backpack to place it in the trough.
You can place up to four food items at once, but each chicken only needs one. If you only have one chicken, you only need to place a single piece of feed in here. If you overfeed a chicken, it will eat everything in the trough, but still produce only one egg.
The day after you feed a chicken, it will lay an egg somewhere in the garden. The more days in a row that you remember to feed the chicken, the higher-quality eggs it will produce.
However, if you are on a streak and miss a day, the chicken may become annoyed and refuse to eat or produce eggs for a few days. It will even chase you around the garden until it calms down in a few days.
