Chickens Disappearing?

[k0ffinkitten]

I haven't played around too much with Cottage Living, but I did buy a chicken coop and bought 2 hens and a rooster. I hatched a rooster chick, who I got a notification saying he aged into an adult, but then he disappeared. From the relationship panel, from the coop, from the world. Same thing happened to another chick that hatched in my sim's hands. Except that chick didn't even leave the coop after hatching, it just stopped existing. I still have the 3 chickens I started with, but those 2 chicks I hatched just don't exist anymore. Has anybody else had this problem? It's possible it's just a bug that needs fixing, but I haven't seen other people reporting this.

[delrouval · Accepted solution]

@jpkarlsenbut how can that happen to a chick that just had hatched without any notification? just - hatch - gone i was so sad bc to me it was a golden egg that hatched

NEVERMIND! I've found my chick - somehow it got dropped into the house-inventory (i dunno why, but at least it's there)

[jpkarlsen]

@k0ffinkitten 

Move your Mods folder to the Desktop and delete localthumbcache.package. Then test the game
If it works now check for updates to your Mods and CC. Add it back a little at a time while testing until you have found all that are broken.

[CallMeSuperboy]

This has also happened with me and also the Youtuber James Turner (on his early access livestream-- so definitely no mods or other packs). 

I'm on mac and have no mods, and a lot of packs. My original rooster just completely disappeared one day and never returned. I had to buy a new rooster and so far he's stuck around. 

[coiler119]

Same issue here, and I never use mods or even custom content, so that can't be a factor. I bought some clothes from the creature keeper, and then one of my hens disappeared from everything

[jpkarlsen]

@coiler119 @CallMeSuperboy 

If you neglect a chickens needs for too long they will leave. You get a notification that they feel neglected. After that you have about two sim hours to remedy the situation or they are gone.

[delrouval · Accepted solution]

@jpkarlsenbut how can that happen to a chick that just had hatched without any notification? just - hatch - gone i was so sad bc to me it was a golden egg that hatched

NEVERMIND! I've found my chick - somehow it got dropped into the house-inventory (i dunno why, but at least it's there)

[jpkarlsen]

@delrouval 

That is a separate matter read my answer to the OP about that.

[CallMeSuperboy]

@jpkarlsen 

That’s not the problem, though, my rooster disappeared with NO notification. He was being taken care of as well as the rest of the chickens. There was no notification in the panel at all. 

If he decided to leave, or a fox got him, then the bug is not that a chicken left, but that the notifications aren’t showing up for why they’re leaving. (I know this isn’t a bug thread but it should be.) 

[jpkarlsen]

@CallMeSuperboy 

I have noticed that if it died there are no notification. I just happened to notice the grim reaper by one of my coops when one of my Roosters croaked.

[k0ffinkitten]

omg thank you! that's where my rooster and chick were too! how strange!