Dreadfowl

A Dreadfowl is a familiar requiring level 4 Summoning and a Dreadfowl pouch to summon. Players may interact with it to obtain a +1 boost to their Farming skill. This does not stack with any other Farming boost (for example, from a Garden pie).

Dreadfowl Pouch
NOTE: According to the infobar above the dreadfowl pouch is an effective method of earning gold.

A Dreadfowl pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 8 spirit shards, a Gold charm and a Raw chicken (one gained from killing an Undead Chicken will NOT work) in the player's inventory. Making the pouch earns 9.3 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Dreadfowl gains 0.1 experience points, and costs 1 Summoning point. It only has a summoning time of 4 minutes, making it the shortest familiar in the game. If players exchange their Dreadfowl pouches at Bogrog, they will receive 6 shards per pouch. Buying the raw chickens on the G.E. is not recommended because it takes a long time. A recommended way of getting raw chicken is going to Canifis and buying raw chicken from the food store for around 60 coins each. If the shop runs out of stock you can not switch worlds to obtain more stock.

Dreadfowl strike scroll
A Dreadfowl strike scroll enables the use of the Dreadfowl strike special move for a Dreadfowl. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls and gives 0.1 experience.

Dreadfowl strike
Dreadfowl strike is the special move for the Dreadfowl, which can hit up to 30 lifepoints damage with a long-range, magic-based attack. It is activated using a Dreadfowl strike scroll and uses 3 special move points. Activating it gives 0.1 experience.

A Dreadfowl will occasionally use this special attack without a scroll.

The special move has very low probability to attack twice at the same time. A different animation and sound is heard.

The evil chicken random event (Discontinued) used to have the evil chicken doing a more powerful version of this.

Trivia

 * The examine text "Southern fried" refers to a way of cooking fried chicken which has its origin in the Southern United States.
 * Dreadfowl strike has a similar appearance to the Evil Chicken's attacks.
 * Some high-levelled players used this attack to gather monsters in a group for mass barraging or chinning, either for fast Magic or Ranged experience, or fast charm collecting.
 * There is sometimes a graphical glitch where most of the picture on the summoning pouch is cut off and damaged. Glitched dreadfowl pouch.png