Chicken Coop

Chicken Coop is a building available on FarmVille. A farmer may put 20 chickens in a chicken coop so that they may be harvested all at once (similar to a Dairy Farm). Chicken Coops can be sent by a farmer as a gift to their neighbors. A farmer may only own one Chicken Coop at any one time, meaning that if a farmer who already owns a Chicken Coop receives another as a gift, the farmer will receive a chicken instead. However, due to a glitch in the system, it is possible to obtain more than one chicken coop at a time.

Mystery Eggs were introduced with the Chicken Coop. Currently the only way to obtain mystery eggs is through the Chicken Coop, and there is a 10% chance of obtaining one with each harvest of the coop. The color of the mystery egg that may be produced is determined by colors of the chickens in the coop.

From 6th of January, 2010 You can feed up to 20 of your Neighbors chickens that are in your friend's coops and you may find Mystery Eggs and its increases their chance of getting Mystery Eggs.

The January 15th episode of the FarmVille Podcast had a brief mention of "very cool changes to the chicken coop" coming soon, but did not elaborate on what these changes will be.

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A Chicken Coop can be sold for 650 coins for the first time, but any subsequent sales will only earn the farmer 270 coins (in which 20 coins is the price for one chicken included inside).

Look inside
If a farmer clicks Look inside on a chicken coop, they will be shown which chickens they own, how many and what eggs they can produce.:



If a farmer does not own a certain kind of chicken in the chicken coop, the box will appear grey, as for the Gold and Black chickens shown below: