Chicken Coop
An enclosure to keep some chickens around. Chickens with plenty of food, water and sunlight produce more eggs.
The Chicken Coop is a farming deployable in Rust with 250 health. It has 4 storage slots. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.
About the Chicken Coop
On the tech tree it sits behind 2 other unlocks: Large Planter Box and Water Bucket. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Chicken Coop health and decay
Outside a tool cupboard's range it holds for 5 hours, then decays from full health to nothing in 8 hours.
How to craft the Chicken Coop
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 300 × Wood, 1 × Rope and 75 × Metal Fragments.
300
1
75 How to get the Chicken Coop blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 3 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item
20 Scrap
Blueprint
20
Node
1 Blueprint Fragment
Unlocked
3 Repair when placed
A damaged Chicken Coop can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:
×150
×38
×15 How to repair the Chicken Coop
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 61 × Wood, 16 × Metal Fragments and 7 × Cloth, and you need its blueprint.
×61
×16
×7 Reduction is how much of that damage type never lands. Damage taken is the rest: at 50% reduction a hit for 100 does 50. A negative reduction means the hit lands harder than it would bare.
What the Chicken Coop recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 150 × Wood and 37 × Metal Fragments for one.
×150
×37
50%
50%
×180
×45
60%
×225
×56
75%
25%
×120
×30
40%
Homing Missile ×1262—
100
150
20
2
1
Rocket ×1312.5—
1,400
1,950
40
4
100
30
Satchel Charge ×127520%
480
720
80
10
1
Timed Explosive Charge ×1550—
2,200
3,000
2
200
60
5
High Velocity Rocket ×2195—
400
600
40
4
40mm HE Grenade ×462.5——
Beancan Grenade ×46515%
480
720
80
Survey Charge ×1814—
1,080
1,620
180
360
90
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×2013—
500
600
100 From full health (250 HP), each one placed on it: damage per hit is after its protection. Duds are throws that fizzle and need another throw, not counted in Needed. Costs are for the whole count, crafted from raw materials.
Where to find the Chicken Coop
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.