Evil Chicken

The Evil Chicken is a random event which can occur at any time, during any action, even while standing around or in combat. It is one of only 2 hostile random events that are not skill related, the other one being the Swarm.

It attacks with magic, and so cannot be hidden from, and may inflict a hit or two as the player runs away. Using the Protect From Magic prayer nullifies the chicken's attack, and it can be safely dealt with. Its level depends upon the players level, and maxes at 159. Many lower levels still can kill it. Examining it gives the text "A fowl beast".

The Evil Chicken hits a maximum of 5 damage, at any level. Despite its max hit being low (compared to other random events), it has high accuracy regardless of player's defense, though hits 0 sometimes. The Evil Chicken cannot move. If you try to step on it, it will say "Bwaark! Get off of me!" and your character will take damage and automatically step one square away from the chicken. You can only avoid its attack by running away or staying behind a solid wall, NOT behind a obstacle.



The Wise Old Man of Draynor Village has a book on the origin of the evil chicken, titled simply "Book on chickens".

The Evil Chicken says things like: When a player runs far enough, a message will appear in the chatbox reading "The Evil Chicken realises you're out of range and vanishes." If a player is not out of range but nonetheless cannot be attacked by the chicken, after approximately a minute a message will appear reading "The Evil Chicken gets bored and vanishes." Through a glitch, it is possible to move up or down levels in a building, then return to the level the evil chicken is on without being attacked. The Evil Chicken is part of the Recipe for Disaster: Sir Amik Varze subquest during which you must kill it. It is always slightly stronger than it usually is during a random event fight to add to the challenge, so if it would normally be level 79 for your level group, you would get attacked by a level 81 Evil Chicken. The highest level it can reach is 159 (if you would normally get a level 159). A player will have access to the Evil Chicken's Lair for Black dragons and mining ores after they defeat the Evil Chicken, but the bird itself will not appear.
 * "Bwuk bwuk bwuk".
 * "Flee from me, (player's name)!"
 * "Begone, (player's name)!"
 * "MUAHAHAHAHAAA!"

Drops
Pile containing:
 * Raw chicken
 * Feathers (more than a normal chicken from 50 to 750 feathers)
 * Bones
 * Evil chicken's egg (quest only)

The Evil Chicken used to drop an egg upon killing it. However it was probably removed to avoid confusion with the Evil Chicken's egg in the Recipe for Disaster quest.

Trivia

 * The Evil Chicken has the lowest wander range of any NPC, only 1 square (this means he cannot move at all).
 * Sometimes the Evil Chicken will glitch and stay in one place, not attacking anything.
 * If you are under water when the Evil Chicken attacks, he will be wearing scuba gear and a fishbowl with air bubbles coming out just like you do.
 * Although the tested max hit of the level 159 evil chicken is only 5, the Monster Examine on the random event one states 21.
 * As long as you're wearing a ring of life, you should be safe from being killed by the evil chicken, seeing as it most likely hits lower than 10% of your maximum health.
 * The random event appears to be more common when fighting cockroach soldiers in the Stronghold of player safety and fighting Experiments in the Experiment cave.
 * The Evil Chicken's attacks are magic. Many players prefer to use the 'Protect From Magic' prayer when fighting to avoid taking damage for most of the fight.
 * If you walk on the Evil Chicken it will shove you away dealing up to 4 damage. It will say something such as "Get off of me".