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Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Coops And Coop Animals

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Stardew Valley isn't all crops; farmers are able to raise animals, too! Though animals aren't raised for meat, they do produce eggs, wool, and more, allowing you to make a living.

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To keep smaller animals like Chickens on your farm, you'll need to build a coop — and upgrade it as your operation gets bigger. Whether you just built your first coop or are just trying to figure out if you're missing out on anything, this guide has the answers you're searching for.

Building And Upgrading A Coop

Building the Coop is a simple matter of collecting the right materials, saving up enough money, and visiting Robin when she's tending the desk at the Carpenter's Shop in the Mountains.

Coop Levels

Coop Big Coop Deluxe Coop
Construction Details
  • Built brand new!
  • Takes 3 days to build.
  • Must be built using an existing Coop on your farm.
  • Takes 2 days to upgrade.
  • Must be built using an existing Big Coop on your farm.
  • Takes 2 days to upgrade.
Building Materials Required
  • 4,000g
  • 300 Wood
  • 100 Stone
  • 10,000g
  • 400 Wood
  • 150 Stone
  • 20,000g
  • 500 Wood
  • 200 Stone
Number Of Animals It Can Hold 4 8 12
Kinds Of Animals It Can Hold
  • Chicken
  • Duck (once unlocked in Big Coop)
  • Void Chicken (once unlocked in Big Coop)
  • Dinosaur (once unlocked in Big Coop)
  • Golden Chicken (once unlocked in Big Coop)
  • Rabbit (once unlocked in Deluxe Coop)
  • Chicken
  • Duck
  • Void Chicken
  • Dinosaur
  • Golden Chicken
  • Rabbit (once unlocked in Deluxe Coop)
  • Chicken
  • Duck
  • Void Chicken
  • Dinosaur
  • Golden Chicken
  • Rabbit
Kinds Of Animals Unlocked
  • Chicken (unlocked upon first building this size coop, can be purchased from Marnie)
  • Duck (unlocked upon first building this size coop, can be purchased from Marnie)
  • Void Chicken (unlocked by incubating a Void Egg in this size Coop)
  • Dinosaur (unlocked by incubating a Dinosaur Egg in this size Coop)
  • Golden Chicken (unlocked by incubating a Golden Egg in this size Coop)
  • Rabbit (unlocked upon first building this size coop, can be purchased from Marnie)
Size 6 spaces long, 3 spaces wide 6 spaces long, 3 spaces wide 6 spaces long, 3 spaces wide
Special Features
  • Hay Hopper
  • Feeding Bench
  • Hay Hopper
  • Feeding Bench
  • Incubator
  • Hay Hopper
  • Feeding Bench
  • Incubator
  • Autofeed System

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The Coops' Special Features Explained

The Feeding Bench is the long wooden thing on the back wall of your coop and is used to (big surprise) feed your animals. Hay that you place on the bench will be consumed overnight by the animals who live in the Coop. The bench will change size each time you upgrade your Coop so that it can hold enough hay to feed the maximum number of animals that the building can hold.

A Hay Hopper is one of the items that come with the basic Coop. It allows you to access all your hay stored in the Silos on your farm.

An Incubator is added when you upgrade a Coop to a Big Coop. If you place Eggs in this Incubator, it'll hatch them into the associated animal.

Egg Type Time Until Hatching (minutes) Time Until Hatching (days)
Egg (White) 9,000 6.25
Egg (Brown) 9,000 6.25
Large Egg (White) 9,000 6.25
Large Egg (Brown) 9,000 6.25
Void Egg 9,000 6.25
Golden Egg 9,000 6.25
Duck Egg 9,000 6.25
Dinosaur Egg 18,000 12.5

The final upgrade you'll unlock — when you upgrade to a Deluxe Coop — is an Autofeed System. This means that, instead of having to go into each coop and place Hay on the Feeding Bench, Hay will be dispersed automatically as long as there's enough in your Silos.

The Coop Animals

Chicken

Chickens are an easy, no-nonsense animal to keep on your farm. They cost very little and can turn a massive profit.

Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silver Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Egg Brown Egg 50g 62g 75g 100g
Large Egg Large Brown Egg 95g 118g 142g 190g
Mayonnaise 190g 237g 285g 380g

You may have seen other Stardew Valley players with Blue Chickens! To get these, you'll need to reach eight hearts of friendship with Shane and seen his eight-heart event. After that, there's a 25 percent chance each time you get a new Chicken (either buying it from Marnie or hatching it) that the Chicken will be blue. It's a purely aesthetic change — the Chicken doesn't produce blue eggs that are worth extra or anything like that.

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Duck

The extra money you make per Duck Egg compared to Chicken Eggs is a little undercut by the fact that they will only lay a Duck Egg every two days. However, they're still a worthwhile investment for your farm!

Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silver Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Duck Egg 95g 118g 142g 190g
Duck Feather 250g 312g 375g 500g
Duck Mayonnaise 375g N/A N/A N/A

Rabbit

Rabbits are for the more advanced Stardew Valley player since they don't turn around immediate profit quickly. However, if you can spare the income, they're great for getting a little extra wool!

Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silver Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Wool 340g 425g 510g 680g
Rabbit's Foot 565g 706g 847g 1,130g
Cloth 470g N/A N/A N/A

Void Chicken

Void Chickens are probably the first strange animal species you'll come across in Stardew Valley! That makes them exciting all on their own. They also sell their eggs for more than your average Chicken (though Large Eggs, which Void Chickens don't produce, do outsell them).

Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silver Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Void Egg 65g 81g 97g 130g
Void Mayonnaise 275g N/A N/A N/A

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a bit tough to find — there are lots of ways to get the Dinosaur Egg, but each method has a fairly low chance of yielding it. It also only produces an Egg every seven days, so, while it's fun to have them in your Coops, it might not always be the most profitable option.

Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silver Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Dinosaur Egg 350g 437g 525g 700g
Dinosaur Mayonnaise 800g N/A N/A N/A

Golden Chicken

Don't feel bad if you don't have any Golden Chickens on your farm, yet — very few players do. It requires you to have 100% perfection! That's no small task. They don't even sell for very much at full friendship — indicating that their value is created by the player rather than objective within the game (though their eggs, on the other hand, have a steep price tag, especially for something you're getting daily).

Type/Quality Normal Quality Sell Price Silver Quality Sell Price Gold Quality Sell Price Iridium Quality Sell Price
Golden Egg 500g 625g 750g 1,000g
Mayonnaise 190g 237g 285g 380g

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Caring For Your Animals

Happiness And Friendship

Happiness and Friendship are both stats that have an effect on the quality of items your animal will produce. The happier they are and the better friends with you they are, the better items you'll receive.

Your Friendship with an animal will be on a scale from 0 to 1000, but it appears as a scale of five hearts when interacting with the animal. One half-heart is equal to 100 friendship points.

Actions That Affect Friendship:

Happiness, on the other hand, can be between 0 and 255. The Happiness of an animal is also checked by interacting with them and viewing their menu; it's detailed by the little blurb.

Actions That Affect Happiness:

Food

All animals need to be fed daily. If they aren't fed, that day will not count towards producing their item.

You'll usually feed animals with Hay on their Feeding Bench, so keep an eye on your Hay supplies to make sure you don't run out. However, animals can also eat grass that's growing on your farm. For them to do this, you'll need to open the door to allow them to roam outside and make sure that the grass is near to their Coop. Just because there's grass outside that they could eat doesn't mean that they will eat it — especially if it's too far from the Coop. Allowing them to eat grass rather than Hay helps to improve their happiness level.

There are a few occasions when an animal doesn't need to be fed:

Leaving Them Outside

It's possible to lock your animal out of the Coop by closing the Coop's door before it has returned home. If this happens, they will automatically be grumpy the next day. There's also a small chance they may be attacked in the night – in this case, they'll be lost to you for good.

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