What Do Chickens Eat In Minecraft?

In Minecraft, chickens are passive mobs which are common in grassy biomes. These white mobs are used as a source of food, eggs and feathers. Anyways, today we will discuss what do chickens eat in Minecraft. And, furthermore, we will also talk about how to breed chickens in the game.

In the game, chickens are passive mobs, but they cannot be tamed. However, players make chicken farms for food and feather collecting purposes. But, most of the new players can find it difficult or have trouble while feeding the mob. Hence, everything they need to know about feeding and breeding chickens is mentioned below.

What Do Chickens Eat?

In the game, chickens eat seeds including wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds and beetroot seeds. They can be fed when players look at the chickens and press the feed button or left mouse button in Minecraft. Hence, a player needs to select seeds in the inventory and press the feed or mouse button while looking at the mob. And, if chickens are fed, it will increase their health as well if they are having low hearts or are hurt. But, if they are at full hearts, it will cause them to enter love mode.

Once fed, an adult chicken will enter love mode where two adult chickens in love mode (if fed by player) can breed and have a baby chick. The baby chicks can also be fed with seeds, but the baby chickens will continue to grow faster instead of entering love mode. Therefore, players can breed two adult chickens and make them give birth to a baby chicken once in five minutes.

Once breeding is complete, chickens will not enter into love mode for the next five minutes as a cooldown time for parents. And, after a moment of the rest period, they can be bred again if players feed them seeds. Accordingly, other Minecraft mobs can also be bred if breeding is possible, such as horses, cats, dogs, but they need their different food for the purpose. Nevertheless, the breeding countdown time, i.e. five minutes, is common for these animals in the game.

Hence, this was all about the chicken, passive mob, in Minecraft. Chickens can be found in all the different biomes of the game and are mostly found in grassy biomes. Additionally, they can be fed and bred by seeds. However, once bred, they will need a five minutes cooldown for another breeding.