Chicken

A Chicken is a level 1 monster found in many areas, most notably the chicken coops near Lumbridge and the shack next to the sheep fields (This location will normally have far fewer people than the location next to the cow field). Unattackable chickens can be found on Daemonheim.

Chickens drop raw chicken for Cooking and Summoning, Egg(s) for Cooking, bones for Prayer, and 5 to 15 feathers for Fishing or Fletching they also sell for 10 to 15 gp each. A raw chicken is also necessary to access the Evil Chicken's Lair. Because of this, killing chickens can be profitable for low level players. Chickens count as birds for a Slayer assignment, and can be assigned by Turael or Spria.

For a limited time in 2011, chickens also dropped 10th anniversary cake and 10th anniversary candles, in increments of 1, 2, 3, and 4. This was for celebrating the tenth anniversary of RuneScape.

Many low-level players also kill chickens for combat experience, as they have very low defence and rarely do any damage. Even high-level players may find chickens useful for food if they find themselves low on health near a chicken coop, as eating a cooked chicken provides 30 life points. Chickens will sometimes try to retreat when they have 10 life points left. In Lumbridge, the chicken farm is often crowded on free-to-play worlds.

In most populated free-to-play worlds, chicken coops are often full of bones, feathers, eggs , and raw chicken left by players training on the chickens. If one chooses to bury the bones and cook the chicken, they will gain a decent amount of Prayer and Cooking experience. Raw chicken can be bought from Canifis and Port Sarim food stores and is required in several quests.

Chickens may be assigned as a task by Turael(or Spria after While Guthix Sleeps)

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Trivia

 * In the chicken pen at Fred's farm, one chicken will always respawn 2 squares west of the gate, inside the wall.


 * Getting one's Attack, Strength or Defence level from 1 to 99 would require 1,086,203 chickens to be killed. This will make 65,172,180 to 97,758,270 GP if all the feathers are picked up.


 * Players are required to carry a chicken in Recruitment Drive.


 * In the Dream Mentor quest, Cyrisus claims to have killed 300 chickens a day for 30 years, due to his fear of combat. This results in roughly 3,287,100 chickens; more than enough for him to reach Level: 99 in Attack, Strength and Defense.


 * When a chicken drops a Cornucopia, it automatically appears in the player's inventory after the chicken dies.


 * As of 15 December 2009, chickens will randomly lay eggs when not under attack. These can be picked up.


 * There is a Glitch that sometimes happens where if a player wields an Abyssal whip and does the special attack, it will not show the animation for the movement, and may or may not show the red rings emerging around the chicken.


 * Strangely, Chickens north of Falador never say "Squawk!"


 * Chickens in the Champions' Guild seem to have a higher chance of dropping feathers.


 * When chickens spawn, they say "Squawk!", and again at random times with the spawn of eggs.
 * Chickens in the Lumbrige Farm seem to lay an egg when they say "Squawk!" and are not under attack.
 * Chickens in Brazilian servers say "Cocoricó!" instead of "Squawk!".