An exciting update just took place in FrontierVille, changing forever the game and finally fixing the chicken glitch that has sky rocketed the levels of so many FrontierVille players and drove us mad thanks to the tons of the chickens they had on their homesteads, slowing the game down like crazy. However, as I was saying, things are changing today thanks to the Chicken Coop Expansion that was just released, allowing us to store the chickens inside the coop and changing the way feeding them works! So read on for a complete guide on the chicken coop expansion, here on FrontierVille Info!
To say a few words about the story behind the introduction of the Chicken Coop expansion, we have Jacques who tells us that Coyotes are coming and they love chickens, therefore we have to build the Chicken Coop Expansion and store the chickens inside.
It is worth noting that your regular Chicken Coop can store, by default, 10 chickens, so if you don’t have a ton of them, you don’t have to actually build the Chicken Coop Expansion. However, if you do have more chicken that need to be stored, you have to start the expansion plans and for that, you require the following materials:
- 15 of each of Hammer, Nails, Brick, Paint Drill and Paint Bucket
- 15 Chicken wire (which can be obtained by asking your neighbors)
After you complete this upgrade, you will increase the storage capacity of the Chicken Coop to 25 and you’ll be able to start a new expansion: there is a total of 4 expansions you can build, meaning that there are 5 levels of capacity for the new FrontierVille chicken coop:
- Level 1 (protects 10)
- Level 2 (protects 25)
- Level 3 (protects 50)
- Level 4 (protects 75)
- Level 5 (protects 100)
So… do you really need the Chicken Coop Expansion, and storing your chickens in FrontierVille? By all means, YES, because coyotes are indeed coming to the game and apparently they will simply steal your chickens from the homestead.
Also, if you want to hear some bad news (at least for those who have millions of chickens): feeding chickens with the chicken coop now requires you to spend energy, and also you can’t feed more than you have stored inside the chicken coop. So a fully expanded and completely filled chicken coop would require 100 energy to feed all the animals inside. Finally, a great update!
What do you think about the new chicken coop expansion and chicken feeding mechanic? Are you for or against it?
This is DEFINITELY NOT a nice upgrade…. Not going to put my chickens in them……
I had 5 coops and 128 chickes before the upgrade. I was able to store 10 chickens in each coop for a max of 50, upgraded one coop and now have 65 chickens in storage.
You can still collect the daily bonus, it harvests the chickens you have in one coop from what I can tell and also harvests the chickens you dont have in storage. So you dont have to spend 1 energy for each chicken, but you have the option to do so if you want too.
Wonder how things will go when we get a mission to harvest neighbors chickens? I guess that is what the low teir non playing neighbors are for.
VERY Happy with this new upgrade, just like getting another land expansion!
People not concerned with leveling up will think this mess is just spiffy, but for those of us on the other side it imitates a straw big time! Hey, if your slow system can’t handle a visit to my homestead feel free not to visit…MmmmmKayyyyy? Btw, dude, fix this site please? Talk about slow loads…
Ill never play this dumb game again if they do this I just wasted a month getting all my coops and now they change it how lame! Think of something like this b4 hand not let millions of ppl lvl up then change the rules!
Very good update and slick way to minimize the “cheat”
Complaining about the cheat reminds me of being in grade school. Only underachievers complained about the winners. In today’s society nothing has changed. How we grew up is how we behave now. I feel sorry for those that make companies change game play because they just can’t keep up.
I think This upgrade is great. I really didn’t care if people wanted to level up fast. I did it for a while and found that I didn’t enjoy the game as much. I was a slave to the chickens and coops. I didn’t have space for the stuff I wanted and the crammed homestead was always a problem. I couldn’t get to bigger homesteads with out problems. I have a new computer with some good speed so that wasn’t a problem. Hurray for Zygna.
This will make firing the fox cannon 20 times for the 37×37 expansion much more difficult.
I think this is a hilarious update. So much for those that think it’s a race to level up. I myself rather enjoy “playing” the game. Maybe the game will run faster now that the servers won’t be bogged down with people loading their 5,000 chickens. It doesn’t matter to me that I am only level 75 without the need to have 20 coops and half my frontier covered with poultry. I have plenty of friends on here that are level 100+ who don’t have real lives to live, so I understand their need for accomplishment on a virtual game.
I agree, it’s just a game…
And for DeeJae, I was not complaining about the “cheat”, it was a design flaw which could be exploited, which is not cheating. And this is for me an elegant way to fix the flaw. After all if you notice this is still marked as Beta version….
What I am curious to see now is they have put a limit on chicken coops. What is the limit. I have 8 which I was going to get rid all but one of but it tells me I must empty it so Is that the limit (8) Can those just starting out buy 8? what about those with 20 coops. do they loose them.
I only have about 2-300 chickens, which I keep in a little fenced in area in the bottom corner of my frontier with a couple coops. For me this sucks. I have very few friends that play (and no I am not adding a bunch of strangers to my Facebook account just for a game, you shouldn’t need to) and it’s hard enough to get anywhere in the game. My max energy is only 35. There is no point in storing ’100 chickens per coop’, I won’t have the energy to harvest them.
This game caters FAR too much to people who add hundreds of strangers, pay actual money, or play it for hours and hours each day. It’s getting very tiring.
I have 3 chicken coops do i have to upgrade all of them if so it does not work I had upgrated 1 of them and then I had to do the same thing again alll over
I would wait. Zynga’s site say’s only one coop. I asked what would happen to my extras Will they be rendered useless or will they just disappear. Haven’t heard probably won’t until it actually happens
Mark M: you raise an EXCELLENT point. how are we going to fire the fox cannon so much for the next expansion? i hadn’t even thought about that yet. i hope that zynga considers changing that part of the expansion.
and just as a general comment to this post: i’m undecided on whether or not the chicken coop thing matters. i’ve never had a lot of them, and only have one coop so i don’t have to change anything…..but i might start actually visiting my neighbors who “chicken farm” just to see what their homesteads will look like without all those birds taking up their space.
i think that if they are reducing the limit of coops, those people with more than the limit should be able to sell theirs for the materials they used to build them. of course, i think that should apply to all buildings but that’s just me. i personally don’t have too much of anything in this game, but it would be nice to know if i sold any of my buildings i could get the materials back that i begged and pleaded for in the first place.
I wrote Zynga with this question :
What is going to happen with the other my 7 chicken coops. Will they be rendered useless or will they just disappear.
My Answer:
I am truly sorry for this misunderstanding, but when you do the Chicken Coop Upgrade it is only for one, so if you want to upgrade all your Chicken Coops it has to be one at a time. I apologize again for any inconvenience this may caused and I have added one Teddy Bear to your account for any inconvenience this caused you.
This sounds like we can keep what we have?
Agree with Rick Walter, good improvement and works the same as before but now you have a storage shed for your chickens. It will take some time to get to 100 per coop.
DO NOT ask for chicken wire more than once every 12 hours – everyone will get the “outta rewards” message.
The new coop says it is for adult chickens. What happens with new chicks until the become adults? Will the coyotes eat all of them
What about young chicks? The new coops state they are for adult chickens. Will the coyotes eat all of the young?
Can’t get chicken wire! If anyone tries to send it to me from my wall, it says I’m ‘plum outta rewards’ already! When nobody has sent any! Grrrr! I’m not paying real money for horseshoes for it!!!
Why can’t I purchase the breakfast?
Allie, I am not saying you are, but it sounds like you are running an auto loot. What happens is you have a max of 50 things you can get/send a day, so when you run the bar you use them all up. When people go to send you anything after that point, they will get that reply.
As to the chicken coop upgrade, I think it’s the best idea they have had in a very long time.
- gets rid of most of the lag issues, not to the ones complaining “don’t come to my farm”, I have a super advanced rig, with SLI 8800s and I lag. The problem isn’t at our computer its on the server and the capacity of the browser to deal with it.
- foxes still pop when you feed the young chickens, and when you feed the housed chickens (as only one popped at a time anyway, it really doesn’t hinder things any.
- When you feed the chickens in the building, you tell it how many too feed. then you eat a few lunches, and tell it again. This doesn’t make feeding chickens impossible or anything of the sort.
Hope this all helps, the sky really isn’t falling.
And Pablo, do you know how to set FB up to not have the “hundreds” of non-friends have any bearing on your page? It really isn’t that hard!
Allie, I’m on day 2 of the same thing, No more chicken wire. I think there’s a maximum number of upgrades and chickens in the houses perhaps. I’m not running any auto collects, just trying to upgrade 8 coops. So far there are 165 chickens in there, which is alot, but as you have to sell them for missions they’ll depleat, then raising new ones will be hell due to foxes. I guess we’ll have to see. As for the hundred or so chickens, they’re all adults, you dont ” HAVE” to feed them all people, so I wouldn’t bother adding a hundred neighbors or wasting any energy.
How many coops and chickens do others have, let’s see if we can collectively figure this “Upgrade” out, lol. It does give us all more land to work with, Look at the half full glass folks : )
I personally like the fact that I can now hide away the chickens. Leaves more space on my homestead for other animals … Just wish they would give me a nursery/green house to hide all my fruit trees in too.
Wakeboar Pilot,
Wakeboar Pilot,
I have 8 coops. I think if we just be patient the frenzy will settle down and we can upgrade all. I am interested in what the limit is going to be. I was told by Zynga that you can upgrade 1 at a time which means that we don’t have to get rid of any. we will see.
Ps the previous was a slip of the fingers. sorry
I wonder if I sent an email to zynga saying that im suppose to have the brown and red hedge hog but never recieved it becuz as soon as I got both of them the internet shut down I wonder if theyd send them or just say sorry for the inconvience and put them in my inventory and thoughts?
*any and would they be able to tell if I was lying?
OMG I might be getting a red and brown hedge hog! YAAAAYYYY!
Day 3 here and still no chicken wire left on anyone’s pages, I post for em, They’re all gone when friends click, ugh. I didn’t upgrade one at a time, started with the level 2 on each, then 3 on one and 4 on one, so the one at a time thing isn’t true, Other friends of mine are trying the one at a time deal, and having the same problems. It’s totally like they’re forcing us to buy chicken wire, THAT ain’t happening, come get ma chickens ya Lil Varmints, lmao
Matt,
I say complain it can’t hurt. I see you must have…….I have gotten a lot of stuff everything from horseshoes to teddy bears. It all depends on who you get.
thx they gave me the red and rown hedgehog I think I might ask for 1,000 horse shoes next lol or just 500
this is what znga sent back to me
Hello Matt,
Thank you for contacting Zynga Customer Support for FrontierVille!
My name is Drew and I will be assisting you today. I understand that the Red and Brown Hedgehog are not in your game. I understand how important these are to you, let me do something about it. I’ve checked your account and credited you 1 Red and 1 Brown Hedgehogs. You can check the said animals in your Inventory. Please let me know if you receive those on your Homestead.
I hope that I’ve been helpful in resolving this issue and that you will still continue on playing FrontierVille and other Zynga games. We are continuously monitoring our games and are doing our best to offer them as enjoyable as possible to our beloved players. If you have any other questions regarding our games, please feel free to email us back or visit our Website at http://www.zynga.com.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation, Matt.
Have a nice day and enjoy playing FrontierVille!
Kind regards,
Drew E.
Zynga Customer Support
Customer (Matt Cassese) 02/26/2011 03:45 PM
I bought the brown and red hedgehog but they never gave it to ME! And I really want it plz put the red and brown hedge hog in my inventory I really am sad I need them now plz! :’( plz send them to my inventory as soon as u get this message :’(
Same problem here with the chicken wire. It is almost impossible to get. why did I never get a teddy bear????
I think it is a great idea, the only problem I have is I am spending way more time than I would like trying to get the chicken wire that seems almost impossible to get.
Lavenda I don’t know why they thought a teddy bear was good compensation for the problems. It’s nothing to be thrilled about. I keep having refresh problems when I try to tend the larger chicken farms…. I think we all should get extra horseshoes. When I request materials for the coop expansion I ask and then have 11 hours till I can ask aging. that really stinks.
Joyce, I am sorry you are having problems. It seems there are a lot of us who also are having lots of problems with this coop expansion. The wire is almost impossible to get. and the last ones I clicked on, in the feeds, gave me coins instead of wire. so it seems we are not getting wire by helping neighbors. We won’t need wire by the time we get it, cause our chickens will be gone. They need to change this very soon.
Hey quick observation. Now when I click on item request, ie the fencing for upgrade, I only get 25xp or 25 coin. I used to get one for sending one. Also please note to those that are concerned about Fox He/she will pop up from feeding geese and sometimes the turkeys from the thanksgiving missions. I also feed individual chickens to get my bonus special delivery from pony express.
Lavenda,
You got it right…I not only get wire I can’t get hammers or bricks either.
I haven’t gotten a fox yet Mike. I guess I am lucky that way. I thought they were holding off till they got this other stuff fixed.
my chicken coop will not expand so i can not get my bouses or coyote
Candace March 23 at 12:05pm
I’m wondering whether y’all are having the same chicken coop experience I am. I upgraded mine as far as I could before the coyotes showed up, and got about 70 chickens put in. I’ve now upgraded it to hold 100, but I can’t get any chickens to grow to adult to put them in, because every time I feed them, a coyote shows up and eats the oldest ones. It seems to be exponential too, so the more chickens I put on my land, the more he eats each time. It also doesn’t matter HOW I feed them – by collecting a coop bonus, using the feeder, or one by one by hand – there is always still a coyote, and he always eats the ones that are closest to becoming adult. It also doesn’t matter whether I clobber him or not. If I leave him on my land, he just moves to another area the next time I feed a chicken, and eats 25 more!
So what the heck is the point of continuing to upgrade the coops if we have no way to put chickens in?
Regarding Chicken Coops, in my opinion, creating the updates was a wonderful decision because people were keeping thousands of chickens and feeding them for free but now people have to think about different short cuts to feed the chickens. People like me, had many coops for example I have 23 coops, now my level is 114 and my coops were giving me about 25,000 XP everyday, now the system is changed, I have a hell of lot of energy (food) to feed my chicken I am upgrading my coops everyday and putting 25 chicken inside everyday so now I have put about 600 adult chickens inside the coops but……to feed them I have to spend about 600 energy after every 40 minutes when chickens are hungry.
In this way the foods I have no doubt it is hindered of thousands but the point is does it worth to feed chicken with this energy when chickens are giving me only 600 XP?
I have been thinking about many other things that Zynga has changed like before Coyote mission came, we were able to manipulate our gift that we can not do any more.
If one crop is giving me 10 XP then why shall I feed my chicken for 1 XP the same energy I am going to use for it. Chicken Business is going down now a days on Frontierville. I think chicken coops have lot the worth now or Zynga wants us to remove the chicken and they want to bring something else.
In response to Candace … I have the same thing going on. I have more room for chickens in the coops, but am unable to grow chickens without them getting eaten by coyotes. I am going to delete all chickens not in the coop and give up. Very annoying.
Geneveive,
I have succeeded in getting three chickens to grow to adulthood since I upgraded the coop. SOOOO not worth it!
I’m trying to add another chicken coop but it says I need 294 more wood when I have well over 11,000 wood. I currently have 8 chicken coops, all upgraded to hold 210 chickens but that is not per coop. My problem is, I can’t build any more. My daughter-in-law only has two coops, she is level 49 and it is telling her the same thing but gives her an option to unlock it for 22 horseshoes. So, does anyone have any ideas about this problem? I’ve tried to contact Zynga but they have not responded and their one-on-one chat is not appearing even after many page refreshes.
To my knowledge there is no way to send, gift or share chicken wires. I know of a frontierville profile that has 471 chicken wires but has no way to use them and cannot gift them to anyone. They cannot be added to your wish list. Is there any way for these fences to be shared?
Linda, you are able to keep any coops you have built in the past but you can’t buy any more coops since the limit is 4 now, the previous limit was 12 and before that there was no limit. And for people that can’t raise chickens without having them eaten, the coyote eats 10% of your chickens, so the most you can raise at a time without losing any is 9.
All of my chicken coops have disappeared. I have no idea of why but I worked for months begging for wire and saving all the hammers and things. Growing only 9 chickens at a time took a long time to fill them up. Now they are all gone. What can i do to get them back with all the chickens there?
another interesting thing is that I did an experiment to see if the coyote would eat all the chickens over 9. I put in 20 or so chickens and not one was eaten. so what gives???