I have two empty pastures with the maximal size of 20×20 tiles. Then I traded 6 chickens. None of this chickens have ever found the way to the prepared pastures.
a) How can I 'force' new bought chickens to move from the trading post to one of the empty pastures?
b) Is it possible, that my prepared pastures are too big for chickens?
c) How can I avoid that traded chickens will be sold at the market?
d) Do you know other reasons why traded animals disappears?
BTW: If I click on the empty pasture, I can choose between cattle, sheep and chickens.
Best Answer
You have probably bought Chicken which are dead Chickens. To have them in the Pen you need to buy living Chickens from the Livestock merchant.
Your c) statement that the "Chickens" meat is being sold at the market confirms this theory.
A simple way to see if it is a live or dead chicken(s) is that the value of live chickens are 400-500 and chicken meat is worth 3.
See trade screenshot for living Chickens