# Birds and eggs - basement
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [November 15, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960 "2019-11-15T06:54:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@FunkleBlaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunkleBlaze)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960/1 "2019-11-15T06:54:11Z")
1. How long it take to lay eggs for bird? I have 4 birds in basement and only turkey laid eggs for now.
2. If I keep them in basement, then it influence on speed of giving products (in this case - eggs)?
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### Author:  [@Victor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Victor)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960/2 "2019-11-15T09:33:30Z")
From my observations (on experimental build downloaded in May 2019):
1. Birds can lay eggs each 3-5 days. And it is important for character to leave birds location and then return (e.g. go upstairs/downstairs, or walk ~10 overmap tiles away) - eggs and bird litter will appear on return.
Also, chicken lay eggs all 4 seasons, but wild birds like pheasants lay eggs only in spring (or in spring and summer), but not in winter.
2. I think basement or field or farm is irrelevant - birds will produce eggs and bird litter anyway, in the same quantities in any location (but I didn’t perform real experiments on this though)
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### Author:  [@FunkleBlaze](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunkleBlaze)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960/3 "2019-11-15T10:59:02Z")
I saw that birds produced litter (once even in quantity of 10, most of rotten), but only once saw eggs from them.
Edit: Yeah, my oldest bird is pheasant.
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960/4 "2019-11-15T14:30:36Z")
Ah ten overlap tiles. This explains why my bathroom duck won’t lay any eggs. I’ve been hanging out too close.
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### Author:  [@featherball](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/featherball)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960/5 "2019-11-15T22:43:43Z")
> [@Victor](#):
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> And it is important for character to leave birds location and then return (e.g. go upstairs/downstairs, or walk ~10 overmap tiles away) - eggs and bird litter will appear on return.
Is this a very recent change? I used to do pretty much nothing but craft/work on a vehicle/read/sleep in the same ~2 overmap tiles with the chicken coop being in sight about 18 hours each day and they laid eggs just fine. I did gather eggs in the morning usually, though (which means I went inside to sleep).
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### Author:  [@Ragno](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ragno)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/birds-and-eggs-basement/21960/6 "2019-11-15T22:44:18Z")
> [@Trigon](#):
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> This explains why my bathroom duck won’t lay any eggs
maybe it thinks he is a rubber duck…
In case someone doesnt know or have forgotten, the same applies to farming (the thing about being out of the reality bubble)