sionChicken FAQs

This is the Index Page for sionChicken Information gathered as we blog. For more information on the creation of this collection of FAQs, read below the index.

1. The Great sionChicken List and Blog Posts Index

Your first port of call if you’re looking for SLurls and website links to all of the in-world and out-world information, chickens and accessories will be found here in the Great sionChicken List. This area also provides links to the comprehensive blog posts on the subject.

  1. The Great SionChicken List – SLurls, links, groups and external websites for sionChickens. Gathered by The Chicken Diary authors.
  2. Colour Planning for your sionChickens – post reviewing the various colour planning tools available to help when deciding on which rooster and hen to put together.
  3. Naming those sionChicken Eggs – post about naming standards for eggs, and reviewing two egg boxing systems available on the market to provide egg colour and name information.
  4. Guide to sionChicken Breeds – includes images, features, and a current look at market pricing for various breeds.

2. sionChicken Notecards

These in-world notecards on sionChickens have been written by residents, and dispersed via various means – products and groups – in-world. The text found in these remain under copywrite of the original authors, and are simply shared with you here on this blog for convenience and reference.

Notecard | sionChicken V11 Notes, Part I - written by GreenShamrock McMahon, and released with the V11 upgrade in May 2009.
Notecard | sionChicken V11 Notes, Part II – written by GreenShamrock McMahon, and released with the V11 upgrade in May 2009.
Notecard | Zanyrob’s Chicken and Egg Naming Suggestions – written by Zanyrob Merryman
Notecard | sion Labs End User License 080209 – this new license agreement was updated and took effect from 2nd August 2009 with the release of sionCorn. It is relevant to sionCorn and sionChickens V12 onwards.
Notecard | sionChickens V12 is here!
Notecard | V12 update part 2 – Answers to Questions
Notecard | sionFAQ – Chicken Races
Notecard | Food and Fraud – released 17th August concerning the sionCorn food soon to be produced by cornFarmers for sionChickens to eat.
Notecard | Mutant Chickens and the EULA – released 17th August concerning the mutant / glitch chickens, of which I’d just a few days earlier had one.

3. sionCorn FAQs

A supplementary product to the chickens, sionCorn was released early August 2009. These linked pages will lead you to the new world of corn farming.

sionCorn FAQs Index Page

4. sionChicken FAQs

These pages have been split up into appropriate topics, questions and answers. We hope they provide some information for you. If you wish, most pages of FAQs also have a Question box at the bottom, allowing you to send through your own questions on sionChickens. We will attempt to write up some answers for you.

FAQ Index

sionChicken Basics FAQ

  1. What are the Bare Minimums for keeping a sionChicken?
  2. Cheatsheet : Lifecycle, Stages and Timings for sionChickens
  3. How many chickens can I keep?
  4. Do I have to keep them in a coop?
  5. What should I look for in a coop?
  6. Can I keep my chickens on a skybox?
  7. Why is my chicken floating around / bouncing out of coops / escaping from their secure coop?
  8. How do I NAME / Rename a Chicken or Egg?
  9. How do I SET / RESET ‘Home’?
  10. Why is my Chicken Not Moving?
  11. Chickens and Sleep
  12. Clone Chickens
  13. Dead Chickens
  14. OMG, my favourite / most expensive chicken has died! Can I Revive Him/Her?
  15. Why is my Chicken Not Eating, and Saying it’s always Hungry?
  16. Groups, Home and Other Important Subjects
  17. How Can I Move My Chicken?
  18. Why are Toys important?

sionChicken Breeding FAQ

  1. When will my chickens be ready to produce eggs?
  2. Mating Between the Races
  3. My Scarces Won’t Mate. How can I get them to produce eggs?
  4. I Have a Killer Black, and He Won’t Mate. Why Not?
  5. How Many Roosters Do I Need with the Hens?
  6. How Many Eggs Should I Expect from each breeding set?
  7. What conditions do I need for eggs?
  8. How do I Know my Hen is ready to lay an egg?
  9. My hen is at 100% but she still never lays an egg! What’s going on?
  10. Can I mate my hen with a rooster belonging to somebody else (or vice versa)?

sionChicken Colours FAQ

  1. How will I Know What Colour My Chicken Will Be?
  2. What are these Vector Colours?
  3. Vectors and Naming Chickens
  4. Colour Tools for sionChickens
  5. What is a Killer Black?
  6. What is a Golden Rooster?
  7. What is a Perfect or Triplet?
  8. What is a Black Russian?
  9. What Colours Will I Get from Mating?
  10. Colours in sionChicken Races
  11. How Do I Get a Yellow Chicken When All I Have are Red, Blue or Green?
  12. Guide to sionChicken Breeds

Disclaimer and Appeal

Both Aunty Audrie and Pacific endevour to write up information as we discover it, and as we farm our own very small hobby farm of sionChickens. So saying that, the sionChicken world changes drastically and quickly with new upgrades and products, and we, as a team, are beginners at this. There are therefore possible errors in the knowledge we are sharing here with you, and we apologise in advance for this. If you do find errors or misunderstandings, please do inform us so that we can continue to learn ourselves, and correct the information on this blog.

We are also mindful of the huge community of fellow sionChicken enthusiasts in-world and those are the people and groups which have shared their knowledge with us so kindly. There are many experts and experienced chicken farmers in-world, and we would encourage you to join up into some of the groups where you will find these people. You will find a list in the first page linked to below.

If you wish for any more information to appear in this collection, please feel welcome to email us or contact us about this. The FAQs also allow readers to post their own questions about sionChickens, and we will attempt to locate answers on this.

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