Chickens Complete Guide – Farming Simulator 25

Learn everything you need to know about raising, breeding, feeding, and selling chickens in Farming Simulator 25. This comprehensive guide covers setting up your chicken coop, purchasing birds, managing their health, and collecting eggs for profit.

Getting Started: Setting Up Your Chicken Coop

The first step to raising chickens is purchasing a chicken coop to house them. To access the build menu on PC, use Shift + P for Papa menu. Console players should use their designated build menu key binding found in settings.

Navigate to the animal icon (cow icon) in the build menu. From there, you can select from various chicken housing options:

Chicken Pasture: A basic fenced enclosure for a smaller number of chickens

Standard Chicken Coops: Mid-range options housing 20-30 chickens

Massive Chicken Coop: The largest option at 79,000 currency units, capable of housing 360 chickens

Each coop displays a chicken icon with capacity numbers and a food icon showing what feed types it accepts.

Purchasing Your Chickens

Once your coop is built, you need to buy chickens from the animal dealer. Look for the yellow animal dealer icon on your map, or check near the store location marked with a basket icon.

Approach the animal dealer and press R to open the animal dialogue. You’ll find chicken purchase options:

Young Chicken: 5 euros per bird (cheaper option)

Fully Grown Chicken: 55 euros per bird

Young chickens are more cost-effective and will grow to maturity over time. When purchasing, you’ll see a “transport to [your coop name]” option showing where the chickens will be delivered.

Note: A transport fee is applied unless you transport the animals yourself using a livestock trailer. The transport fee for 10 chickens is 50 euros, with the chickens themselves costing 500 euros (50 euros × 10).

Breeding Chickens: Adding a Rooster

To breed your chickens, you must purchase a rooster from the animal dealer. You only need one rooster for your flock. With a rooster present, chickens will automatically breed if certain conditions are met.

Breeding Conditions

For successful breeding, the following requirements must be satisfied:

Available space in the coop (not at maximum capacity)

All chickens must be at least 6 months old (mature age)

Animal health must be at 100%

Feeding Your Chickens

Maintaining 100% health is simple—you only need to keep your chickens fed. Unlike other animals, chickens do not require water, only food.

Food Options

Chickens can consume:

Wheat

Barley

Sorghum

Chicken Feed (purchased from the store)

If you haven’t grown these crops or prefer convenience, you can purchase chicken feed bags directly from the shop. This is the recommended approach for new players.

Transporting Eggs and Feed

Equipment Needed for Egg Transport

Eggs are produced passively by your hens and appear on pallets. To transport egg pallets, you’ll need:

A tractor with front loader attachment capability

A front loader unit

A palette fork front loader tool

Ensuring Your Tractor Has Front Loader Compatibility

When purchasing a tractor, verify it includes “front loader attacher” in its options. Not all tractors support front loaders. If you’ve already purchased a tractor without this attachment, you can visit the car mechanic (marked with a wrench icon) to add a front loader attachment to existing vehicles.

Transporting Chicken Feed

To transport large chicken feed bags, you’ll need:

A front loader vehicle (compact and highly maneuverable)

A big bag lifter tool (dual capacity models recommended as they can carry two bags simultaneously)

Purchase chicken feed bags from the shop’s big bags section—these are identifiable by the chicken icon. Position your front loader vehicle near the bags and use the following controls:

Move mouse upward: lowers the front loader

Move mouse downward: raises the front loader

Move mouse left/right: rotates the loader arms

Press Q: attaches bags to the loader

Delivering Feed to Your Coop

Drive your loaded front loader vehicle to your chicken coop. When you arrive, press G to change the control group, then drop the feed bag. The bag will automatically dispense food to your chickens, as shown by the decreasing liter count (from 100 liters to approximately 81 liters as they begin consuming it).

Your chickens will automatically consume the food over time, and you can monitor food levels by approaching the coop—the bottom right corner displays current food availability in liters.

Selling Your Chickens and Eggs

Return to the animal dealer to sell mature chickens whenever you wish. Simply access the sell icon (left icon in the animal dealer menu) to offload birds from your coop.

Eggs appear automatically on pallets and can be transported via your tractor with front loader and palette fork. These pallets can be sold at designated selling points, generating consistent passive income.

Conclusion

Raising chickens in Farming Simulator 25 is a rewarding and relatively passive income stream. Set up your coop, purchase a rooster and hens, keep them fed, and watch as they automatically breed and produce eggs. With proper planning, you’ll have a profitable chicken operation generating income through both egg sales and offspring breeding. The entire process is beginner-friendly and requires minimal daily interaction once established.

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