Chickens
Chickens in FarmCapi cost 60 coins, eat 1 feed and lay 1 egg in 10 minutes. How many you can keep, where feed comes from and what each egg is worth.
Chicks in FarmCapi: from egg to hen in 8 hours
Key points
- 1 egg in the incubator hatches into a chick in 2 hours.
- The chick grows into a hen in 6 hours and turns into a young hen halfway.
- Each feed saves 30 minutes, up to 3 times: 4 h 30 min at the fastest.
- The egg only hatches if the pen has room (9 animals).
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In-game facts
- Incubator
- 2 h
- Becomes a hen in
- 6 h
- Feed speeds up
- 30 min × 3
Current version (beta). Numbers change with balancing.
In FarmCapi, an egg placed in the incubator hatches into a chick in 2 hours, and the chick grows into a hen 6 hours after hatching. Halfway through, it shows up as a young hen. Each feed you give a chick saves 30 minutes, up to 3 times, which brings growth down to 4 h 30 min. In the current version (November 2026), it's how you get new hens without spending the Shop's 60 coins.
Chick at a glance
| Stage | Time |
|---|---|
| Egg in the incubator | 2 hours |
| Chick (0 to 50%) | 3 hours without feed |
| Young hen (50 to 100%) | 3 hours without feed |
| Total growth | 6 hours, or 4 h 30 min with 3 feeds |
| Egg to hen | 8 hours, or 6 h 30 min with 3 feeds |
Your first incubator egg
Your first egg goes into the incubator on its own. At the end of the welcome sequence, Capi tucks your first hen's egg into the incubator, nice and warm, and tells you a chick will hatch in about 2 hours. If you'd already sold that egg, the incubator starts anyway. It's one of two reasons to come back the same day; the other is the first order from Granny Coti.
How to hatch and raise a chick, step by step
- Have at least 1 egg in the Barn (see chickens).
- Tap the empty incubator next to the coop. The game uses 1 egg and shows "Egg in the incubator! Chick in ~2 h."
- Wait 2 hours. The chick hatches even with the game closed.
- With the Hand and feed in the Barn, tap the chick to feed it: each feed saves 30 minutes (3 max).
- Halfway through, it becomes a young hen.
- When it grows into a hen, she arrives hungry: feed her for her first egg.
Why chicks grow in 6 hours
Until November 8, 2026, a FarmCapi chick took 24 hours to grow up. The team cut that to 6 hours and added the young hen stage in the middle. As a result, an egg placed in the incubator in the morning is a hen by the end of the day (2 h + 6 h), and if you check in mid-afternoon you'll already see the young hen. Feed works as a small, capped shortcut: 1 h 30 min at most. The thinking behind that choice is in what makes farming games so satisfying.
Real chickens take much longer; the article how long it takes a chick to become a hen compares the two.
Is feeding a chick worth it?
Each feed costs 2 coins in the Shop and saves 30 minutes. Three feeds cost 6 coins and save 1 h 30 min on a hen that, once fed, earns 36 coins an hour. It pays off when you'll be around to feed the new hen; if you won't, rushing changes nothing.
The game only accepts feed while there's more than 1 minute left on the chick's growth.
Incubator limits
- One egg at a time. The incubator won't take another egg while it's busy.
- The pen needs room. The pen holds 9 animals in total, counting chickens, cows and chicks. If it's full, the egg waits in the incubator until a spot opens.
- It counts as a chicken. A chick already takes a chicken slot. The Shop sells up to 6 chickens, chicks included.
Checklist: 1 egg in the Barn, room in the pen, 3 feed for the chick and 1 more for the new hen.
Keep reading
See chickens and cows, or play free and follow your first chick.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take a chick to become a hen in FarmCapi?
6 hours after hatching, or 4 h 30 min with 3 feeds. Add the incubator's 2 hours and it's 8 hours from egg to hen, or 6 h 30 min with feed.
How do I put an egg in the incubator?
Tap the empty incubator next to the coop while you have at least 1 egg in the Barn. The game uses 1 egg and the chick hatches in 2 hours.
What is the young hen stage?
It's the second half of a chick's growth. Once it passes 50% of its growing time, it shows up as a young hen until it becomes a full hen.
Does feeding a chick make it lay eggs?
No. Feed only speeds up growth by 30 minutes, up to 3 times. It starts laying once it's a hen and gets fed like the others.
Who wrote this: FarmCapi Team
The FarmCapi Team makes the game and writes this site. Game numbers come from the game’s own data in the current version; real-world facts are linked to a dated source.
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