# Chicken

c chicken 

Difficulty

3

Attacks

Bite 1d3

c chicken 

Difficulty

3

Attacks

Bite 1d3

Base level

2

Base experience

20

Speed

15

Base AC

8

Base MR

0

Alignment

0 (neutral)

Frequency (by normal means)

1 (Very rare)

Genocidable

Yes

Weight

100

Nutritional value

50

Size

Small

Resistances

None

Resistances conveyed

None

A chicken:

 has no hands.

 is an animal.

 is herbivorous.

 can be tamed by feeding.
 wanders randomly.

 can be seen through infravision.

 normally appears in small groups.

Reference

SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line321

A chicken is a monster added in SLASH'EM.  Feeding it vegan food may tame it.  Contrary to what one might expect, they cannot lay eggs, and no eggs will hatch as chickens.

Strategy
While not a threat in and of itself, chickens share a glyph with the instadeath-causing chickatrice.  Players should very careful not to mistake a chickatrice for a chicken, therefore.  Both tend to appear in small groups.
Chickens are hardly worth taming: they have low carrying capacity, are weak in combat and cannot grow up into anything better.