Anyone who has experience playing Stardew Valley knows how beneficial chickens can be when you’re starting your farming journey.

Not only do they produce various sizes of Egg

, but you can use them for cooking or even make Mayonnaise

for a healthy profit. That’s not to mention the all-important

Community Centre Bundles
!

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And with the addition of the 1.6 update, you can even pick the Meadowlands farm layout to start with a coop and 2 free Chicken

! The

new blue grass
will increase their affection quicker than you can blink.

Of course, for those who may be a little bored with the normal white and brown chickens, you may want to spruce up your farm with a snazzy blue variant. Do these do anything different? No. But they look awesome, and honestly, that’s all that really matters.

Building A Chicken Coop

Naturally, if you want blue chickens, you’re going to need a coop to put them in. This can be done pretty cheaply at the start of your playthrough (or, of course,

just pick the Meadowlands farm
).

Simply go to Robin

with the following materials:

While this may seem a little expensive if you’re in your first spring, you’ll quickly recoup the costs by selling the produce or making the eggs into something more interesting.

While this coop can only hold 4 chickens for now, you can always upgrade it later on down the line to unlock new features like different animals, incubators and auto-feeders.

Becoming Friends With Shane

Once you’ve gotten your coop, you’re going to have to start the process of earning Shane’s friendship. This is specifically because the sale of blue chicken is

locked behind his 8-heart event
. It’s best to try and get this started as quickly as you can, as his birthday is on the 20th of Spring, the first season.

If you want to build this friendship as quickly as possible, give Shane

these gifts:

Remember, if you want to max out this friendship as quickly as possible, Hot Peppers with additional quality on them are going to be the fastest. Giving a

Gold/Iridium quality
Hot Pepper on Shane’s birthday is a brilliant way to get this done fast.

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He can usually be found working in the Joja Mart or the Saloon in the evening.

Completing Shane’s Heart Events

Shane has a certain number of events that you have to get through before you can reach the chicken one. If you haven’t completed these, the blue chicken will never appear for you.

Plus, it’s nice to see Shane on the road to recovery. His story is one of the more difficult stories in Stardew Valley.

2 Heart Event

Once you hit 2 hearts, you can meet with Shane after 8 pm in Cindersap Forest. You will share a beer with him while Shane talks about his life. It’ll leave you feeling a little tipsy afterward, stumbling home in the dark.

4 Heart Event

You can trigger this event at any time after reaching 4 hearts by entering Marnie

’s farmhouse. This scene will see you dealing with Shane while he is drunk on the floor of his bedroom. It’s a particularly difficult scene, and it shows the results of his problem affecting those around him.

6 Heart Event

This event can be activated by entering Cindersap Forest between 8 am and 9 pm, but only while it’s raining. You will see Shane sprawled out near the edge of a cliff, as you try to convince him why life is still worth living.

The first dialogue option does not affect his friendship level, and he will be treated by Harvey

in the hospital.

The next day, he will come and see you. Your choice of dialogue will affect his friendship, so pick either “I was glad I was there to help” or, “I’m just happy you’re still here.” Picking the other option will make him annoyed and decrease your friendship level… so don’t do that.

7 Heart Event Part 1 & 2

Once you’ve completed these steps and increased his friendship further, you can enter Marnie’s Ranch, where Shane will announce that he’s stopped drinking, and due to the money he’s saved, he gives Jas

a present.

After, you will need to enter Pelican Town between 10 am and 4 pm on a normal sunny day. This step also requires you to have 2 hearts of friendship with Clint and Emily, as they are both involved here.

This cutscene shows that Shane has a new hobby, filmmaking. He is trying to make an advertisement for a Joja promotion, using Clint

and Emily

as actors. You will appear as an extra, and Shane will thank you for your help.

8 Heart Event

Finally, once every event has been completed, you can enter the ranch while Shane is at home to view this last cutscene. Shane will be surrounded by blue chickens, the exact thing we’ve been trying to get our hands on.

He will talk about passing on his chicken knowledge to Jas, and at last, the event is complete. There are, of course, events after this, but this is as far as you need to go if you want blue chickens.

How To Obtain The Blue Chicken

Upon completion of this event. Every time you hatch an egg, be it white or brown, you will have a chance of hatching a blue chicken. This is around a 25% chance, or 1 in every 4 eggs.

On the other hand, if you don’t enjoy waiting for eggs to hatch, you can instead simply buy one from Marnie for the usual price. Just go through the usual dialogue until it gets to the chicken placement option, and it will say whether your chicken is the normal white/brown, or our prized blue chicken.

Just keep repeating the buying process with Marnie and cancel if you don’t get the chicken you want. You will eventually get a blue chicken. It may just take a few tries. Then you can fill your whole farm with fluffy blue fellows. That would be a sight to behold.

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Stardew Valley

Released

February 26, 2016

ESRB

E for Everyone (Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Simulated Gambling, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco)

Developer(s)

ConcernedApe

Publisher(s)

ConcernedApe

Engine

Proprietary