Chicken Statue
| Chicken Statue | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Artifact |
| Artifact Spots | The Farm (9%) |
| Other Locations | Fishing Treasure Chest; Artifact Trove (3.6%) |
| Museum Reward | Chicken Statue |
| Sell Price | 50g |
The Chicken Statue is the farm's own artifact. It is one of the few artifacts that artifact spots on The Farm can hold. The odds there are among the best for any artifact in any spot. Donating it after at least four other artifacts earns a Chicken Statue furniture piece from Gunther. That makes it a satisfying early find, since it can turn up on the very land being worked each morning. Spare statues make the Fluffy Shirt at the Sewing Machine and work as a yellow dye.
The in-game description reads: It's a statue of a chicken on a bronze base. The ancient people of this area must have been very fond of chickens.
Location
Artifact spots on The Farm are the main place to find a Chicken Statue. The farm is the only map where artifact spots can hold it. These spots look like small wriggling worms or sticks in the ground, and only a Hoe can dig them. New spots can appear overnight on open tillable ground, so a quick walk around the farm each morning is worth it. Fitting the Hoe with the Archaeologist enchantment doubles the chance that a dig yields an artifact.
Fishing Treasure Chests, normal and golden alike, can hold the statue. Artifact Troves include it as well. Trading five Omni Geodes to the Desert Trader in the Calico Desert gets a trove, which Clint then opens at the Blacksmith for a small fee.
After a pat, a dog at full friendship may leave the farmer a gift. The Chicken Statue is one of its rarer gifts.
Museum
Gunther gives a Chicken Statue furniture piece for the artifact once the collection holds at least four other artifacts. In practice, the statue should be the fifth artifact donated or later. Since farm spots can turn it up early, it helps to keep it in a chest until four cheaper artifacts are in the museum.
The furniture piece is purely decorative. If it is ever lost, the Lost Items Shop in the Secret Woods sells a replacement.
The donation also counts toward the artifact milestones, with the Skeleton Statue at fifteen artifacts and Rarecrow #7 at twenty. Every donation adds to the overall total as well.
Prices
The Chicken Statue is one of the cheaper artifacts to sell. Because it comes with its own reward, the first copy is worth far more in the museum. Duplicates fetch little in the shipping bin, though the Treasure Appraisal Guide triples the sale price of every artifact once read.
Gifts
The Dwarf and Penny like the Chicken Statue. For the Dwarf, the gift starts to count once the Dwarvish Translation Guide has been earned.
The Chicken Statue is a poor gift for Jas, Leo and Vincent. Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre, Robin and Willy dislike it too, and so do Abigail, Alex, Elliott, Emily, Haley, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Sam, Sebastian and Shane. Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard dislike it as well, as do the older residents Caroline, Demetrius, Evelyn, George, Jodi, Kent, Lewis, Linus and Pam.
Notes
Putting Cloth in the feed and a Chicken Statue on the spool of the Sewing Machine makes the Fluffy Shirt. The Sewing Machine is in Emily's house at 2 Willow Lane.
The dye pots in the same house accept the Chicken Statue as a yellow dye.
Farm artifact spots also hold the Rusty Spur, the Prehistoric Rib and the rare Strange Dolls. Digging every spot on the farm works toward several museum pieces at once.
All Artifacts
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Amphibian Fossil | 
|
150g |
| Anchor | 
|
100g |
| Ancient Doll | 
|
60g |
| Ancient Drum | 
|
100g |
| Ancient Seed | 
|
5g |
| Ancient Sword | 
|
100g |
| Arrowhead | 
|
40g |
| Bone Flute | 
|
100g |
| Chewing Stick | 
|
50g |
| Chicken Statue | 
|
50g |
| Chipped Amphora | 
|
40g |
| Dried Starfish | 
|
40g |
| Dwarf Gadget | 
|
200g |
| Dwarf Scroll I | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll II | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll III | 
|
1g |
| Dwarf Scroll IV | 
|
1g |
| Dwarvish Helm | 
|
100g |
| Elvish Jewelry | 
|
200g |
| Glass Shards | 
|
20g |
| Golden Mask | 
|
500g |
| Golden Relic | 
|
250g |
| Nautilus Fossil | 
|
80g |
| Ornamental Fan | 
|
300g |
| Palm Fossil | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Handaxe | 
|
50g |
| Prehistoric Rib | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Scapula | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Skull | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Tibia | 
|
100g |
| Prehistoric Tool | 
|
50g |
| Prehistoric Vertebra | 
|
100g |
| Rare Disc | 
|
300g |
| Rusty Cog | 
|
25g |
| Rusty Spoon | 
|
25g |
| Rusty Spur | 
|
25g |
| Skeletal Hand | 
|
100g |
| Skeletal Tail | 
|
100g |
| Strange Doll (green) | 
|
1000g |
| Strange Doll (yellow) | 
|
1000g |
| Trilobite | 
|
50g |