I always do the fence area...then put some glass panes on the fence, then on top of that, basically just make a roof. Then, so that the little shits don't escape when I'm going in to either make more or kill them off if I get too many, I have two gates. I hate chasing after the little fuckers if they escape, and really hate having to go find more if they do >.<

Oh god, I hate it when one escapes and you spend the next half hour pushing it back in, only to have move sneak out when you try to put one back in.


THE HORROR!

As long as you have wheat, it's not as bad. Oh wait...pigs needs carrots now...cows and sheep, wheat and seeds for chickens. But anyways, as long as you have that, it's not as bad...but if you don't then yeah, it's annoying as hell trying to push them back in there hah

I haven't even played the new update that requires carrots. D:

It took me forever to figure out why the pigs weren't following me...had to look it up, and you can only find them in damn villages. Good thing is, you can plant them once you do find them and you'll never run out.

I kept chickens in a cylinder made out of glass with water on the bottom. So chickens just flop around swimming and eggs fall down and float off to a collection point.
It keeps the chickens from glitching from their pen and from dying from suffocation (since glass is translucent).

That sounds like animal cruelty if it weren't Minecraft.

I know lol, there had to be like 100 chickens in there. Just the fucking sound of all that, it will drive you mad. I had to break down 1 farm and move it away from my house where I couldn't hear it.

Oh god. I learned that lesson the hard way when I would build our farms beside our towns. The horrid concoction of cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep.....oh god never again.... D: