Chicken (Skyrim)

Chickens are domesticated animals which can be found throughout the province of Skyrim. They are commonly found in cities, villages, or farms. There are consequences for killing a chicken. Even though the bounty is as low as 45, the townsfolk will kill the violator if they get the chance. You are also able to soul trap chickens.

Food
You can "harvest" eggs from their nests. Any chickens that are killed have a chicken breast in their inventory. If combined with a salt pile at a cooking pot or cooking spit, chicken breast can be changed to Grilled Chicken Breast,which has a value of 4 septims, restores 5 health, and weighs 0.2 pounds.

Trivia

 * Tainted chickens can appear after you activate a chicken nest near a necromancer.
 * The chicken has a Dmg of 2 making it the weakest animal in the game.
 * After purchasing Honeyside the player can buy a garden upgrade which gives them two chickens who will wander around outside.
 * During development, there was a minor bug that allowed chickens to report crimes. Todd Howard: "...this was a bug – lately we realised that chickens were reporting crimes. I found that very funny. That was just last week: Why are we getting caught? Oh, the CHICKENS are reporting the crimes! That actually took us a while to track down, that bug. Like, why is this happening? (Laughs)"