Breedable Animals

Does anyone still remember Sion Chickens? Ever since I dropped that crazy, costly and immensely lag-creating "hobby" I totally lost interest and touch with that community and any other breeding animal or vegetable in SecondLife.

Sion Chickens were all the rage for a while in SecondLife. Someone had actually figured out how to sell eggs (Sion Eggs), which when they were lain on the ground after a few hours would hatch into the cutest small yellow - male or female -chickens in different colors. These small chickens would after a while grow into ugly adults. If you had a rooster and a bunch of hens together the hens would start laying eggs, which in turn would hatch into male or female chickens and grow up and would in turn mate, lay eggs of new colors depending on which colors their parents had, hatch, grow up, breed... etc. etc. ad infinitum.

All the while they had to eat, the food was the real racket, the food could only be bought from Sion Corps. One plate of food was inexpensive, but you had to feed them all the time and relatively soon  you had many chickens that needed food. Because who wanted chickens dying all over their backyard in SecondLife, screaming pitifully to you that they were hungry?

I got my first four Sion Eggs as a rezday present from a then friend and business partner of Ars´s named Butch H****n - today he is by me mostly referred to as "that a**hole" if I ever think or speak of him - however I will not go into that ugliness today.

When the four eggs had hatched I promptly named them Uno, Dos, Tres and Cuatro. Uno was the only rooster, the other three were hens. These four were the start to my completely failed egg production industry, "McMillan Eggs - Simply the best".

Ars helped me out by building a basic chicken coup for me where I could keep my hatched chicken. The man was actually amazing through the following months, he just suggested we restart the sim more often than we had in the past. In the end I think we were up to five or six times a day and we still had our only tenant complaining about the lag created by my 25 adult poultry.

At first you could take the eggs you didn't want to hatch into Inventory, then Sion Corps "updated" so you couldn't do that without buying "proteggtors" from them.

I left the racket when not even the "proteggtor" would help because they "updated to make it more lifelike" and any eggs not hatched within three or four weeks would rot and go poof. That was when the racket finally dawned on me, I am only sorry to say it took a couple of months. I slaughtered my poultry, sent the remaining food to one of Sion Corps representatives with a few choice words and closed down the business.

Life was blissful after that. Ars was happy and the lag was minimal again. The amazing thing is Ars never once complained to me and I don´t think to anyone else either. He was loving and patient through it all, not until I shut down did he tell me that he had not been "particularilly happy about those damned chickens".

The pictures show the remnants of my venture, I keep them as a reminder of my foolishness and to stay away from breedable animals. Everything else from that era in my second life has been completely deleted from my Inventory.

The Sion Chickens were the first breedables to the best of my knowledge, then came the Sion Corn (which you could use to feed the chickens with but had to buy water etc. from the Sion Corps to grow), then the bunnies, the horses and the kittens and whatever...