Discover the New Chicken Variants in Minecraft Snapshot 25w06a!
Minecraft players eagerly anticipate Java Snapshot updates, and 25w06a introduces exciting new additions: three chicken variants! This guide reveals their locations and how to tame and breed them.

Locating Minecraft's Avian Trio
Warm Chickens: These sunny birds sport yellow and orange plumage. Find them in these warm biomes:
- Badlands
- Bamboo Jungle
- Eroded Badlands
- Jungle
- Savanna
- Savanna Plateau
- Sparse Jungle
- Windswept Savanna
- Wooded Badlands
Cold Chickens: Sporting blue feathers, these chickens reside in colder climates:
- Old Growth Pine Taiga
- Old Growth Spruce Taiga
- Snowy Taiga
- Taiga
- Windswept Forest
- Windswept Gravelly Hills
- Windswept Hills
Temperate Chickens: The familiar classic chicken, now called "Temperate," appears in all biomes not listed above.
Taming Your Feathered Friends
Unlike taming dogs, chickens require a different approach. Carry seeds; chickens will follow you, allowing you to guide them into an enclosure. Repeat until you've gathered your desired flock. Remember long journeys back to your base, especially in Survival mode, might require establishing temporary holding pens.
Breeding Your Chicken Collection
To breed specific chicken variants, feed seeds to two of the same type. They'll enter "love mode," producing an egg of the same variant. For a surprise, feed seeds to two different types; the resulting egg will hatch a random variant.
This completes your guide to finding and breeding Minecraft's new chicken variants. Happy farming!
Minecraft is available on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC, and mobile.