Originally posted by CapNKirkland:

i'll happily settle for my only chicken to be capable of laying any damn eggs.

the first chicken i got died because the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bat swarm event came in and killed it minutes after it hatched. now i only had enough gold to buy a 2nd egg. keeping this chicken inside my house so it doesn't die in a random event again. but it won't lay any eggs.

the thing ate 100 barley and it still won't lay anything.

I know they need to be outside, but no idea how to prevent the bats from killing them except maybe rase your chicken on another server where you haven't been in a ice cave?