I have had a lot of troubles supplying chickens to my carnivorous slimes, mostly because i dont know how many i can take to keep supply up, along with the chickens and roosters aging and such.
So i was thinking about how it could possibly be improved on, and the idea i came up with is less of a chicken pen, and something more like a coop, a small house in the pen, possibly on little stilts. You put a rooster and a hen of your choice inside and it works similarly to a garden, either chicks popping out in a bunch (similar to the harvest amounts, 5, 10, 15, 20) or popping out every now and then, giving the same harvest amount over 24 hours that a garden would give.
they come out as chicks, and then have to grow up in their little grassy area, eating bugs and sunbaking like a real chicken, the upgrades for it helping the amount of chicks that hatch and how fast they grow up like they do now
i tried to draw my idea but i only have access to paint and no drawing tablet