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Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:56 am
by peachey1mill
I know they're only supposed to lay 1 a day or something like that, but it feels like they lay 1 a week, I keep them fed every time I enter my base or when I'm in for the night. Even when I spend all night working on my base in fairly close proximity to them, they still don't seem to want to lay any eggs. Am I missing something? Do I have to sit there and watch them face to face or something?

Re: Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 3:12 am
by jorgebonafe
They'll lay eggs on the dawn only. And if you feed them after dusk you'll have to wait a whole extra day.

Re: Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:26 pm
by peachey1mill
Ahh, OK. They're laying more consistent now, cheers.

(If FC wants to close or delete this that's fine)

Re: Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:32 pm
by MisterFister
peachey1mill wrote:-snip-
Is it possible that the time you're spending waiting is beyond chunk-load radius, or even in a non-overworld dimension?

Re: Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:59 pm
by peachey1mill
I was well within 100 blocks or so, in the overworld, working on my base. But with what jorgebonafe said, that's helped. I now feed them shortly after dawn or around noon and by the next dawn I've got eggs.

On a side note, does anyone know is sheep/cows will eat grass off half slabs of dirt? I set up a test in creative to see, but they don't seem to be

Re: Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 7:07 am
by Rob
No. They do not eat grass off half slabs.

Re: Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:01 am
by Dorugami
peachey1mill wrote:I was well within 100 blocks or so, in the overworld, working on my base. But with what jorgebonafe said, that's helped. I now feed them shortly after dawn or around noon and by the next dawn I've got eggs.

On a side note, does anyone know is sheep/cows will eat grass off half slabs of dirt? I set up a test in creative to see, but they don't seem to be
Too exploitable with it being a cheap way to keep animal pens mob proof without lighting, so fc rubbed that one out in development.

Re: Chickens won't lay eggs?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:09 am
by peachey1mill
I didn't even think of that, but it makes sense. I just wanted a more gradual slope in my cow field