Easy Way to Build a Cage in Stardew Valley!

Like breeders in general, breeders in Stardew Valley raising various types of animals to produce eggs and other animals so that many breeders need cages to accommodate them.

This building is used to raise livestock such as chickens, ducks, rabbits, dinosaurs or other livestock for resale in Stardew Valley.

These farm animals need to be given a place. Therefore, the cage is also a very important place in this game.

If your livestock increases, the cage you build must be larger. You can sell all your livestock to build a larger cage.

So, for those of you who have lots of livestock in Stardew Valley, but don't understand how to build a cage here, in this article we will discuss it so you can build it.

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How to Build a Cage in Stardew Valley

As previously mentioned, a cage is a farm building for caring for or raising livestock such as chickens, ducks, rabbits, dinosaurs or other livestock in Stardew Valley.

To have a cage you need to buy or upgrade it from the Carpenter's Shop in North Pelican City.

You need to buy materials such as wood, stone and other materials which can be purchased at Robin's Carpenter Shop located in Pelican City.

Robin's Carpenter Shop is open every day except Tuesday from 09.00 am to 17.00 pm.

You only need 4,000 Gold capital to buy 300 Wood and 100 Stone materials to build a regular type cage.

After purchasing all the materials, you need to determine the area of land where the cage will be built to be cleaned first before the materials arrive at the land location.

For a small cage, you can only accommodate 4 chickens. However, you can still build it more widely if you get income from selling livestock.

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Cage Construction Details

Actually, Stardew Valley itself has 3 different types of cages, but you can't buy these three types directly but you need to upgrade them from the start.

So, below are the materials, costs and estimated construction time.

Regular Cage

• Development Details: Build from scratch.
• Material: 300 Wood & 100 Stone.
• Cost: 4,000 Gold.
• Estimated Construction Time: 3 days.

Big Cage

• Development Details: Upgrade from Regular Enclosure.
• Material: 400 Wood and 150 Stone.
• Cost: 10,000 Gold.
• Estimated Construction Time: 2 days.

Deluxe Enclosure

• Development Details: Upgrade from Big Enclosure.
• Material: 500 Wood & 200 Stone
• Cost: 20,000 Gold
• Estimated Construction Time: 2 days

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Cage Capacity and Special Features

Each type of cage must have its capacity, facilities and features. Below you can find out in more detail.

Regular Cage

• Size: 6×3
• Animal Capacity: 4
• Regular Cage Special Features: Hay Hopper & Feeding Bench

Big Cage

• Size: 6×3
• Animal Capacity: 8
• Big Cage Special Features: Hay Hopper, Feeding Bench and Incubator

Deluxe Type Enclosure

• Size: 6×3
• Animal Capacity: 12
• Special Features of Deluxe Type Cages: Hay Hopper, Feeding Bench, Incubator and Autofeed System

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How to Use a Cage

If your regular coop has been built, you can use it to store or raise 4 chickens.

You can buy the Chicken from Marnie's Ranch where it is sold for 800 Gold.

Of course, these chickens need a place to look after them, at this point you can use your cage to look after all your chickens.

But you can also use straw to care for it. You can get this hay outside the cage, at Marnie's Ranch or building a Silo to harvest Straw.

Every morning, the chicken will lay brown and white eggs, so you can sell those eggs for 50 Gold.

It is very important to raise chickens because you can earn double the money which can be used to build a bigger coop.

If you have a Mayonnaise machine, you can produce eggs into mayonnaise and you can sell them for 190 Gold.

However, if you cook the eggs into food, you will likely get less money than selling mayonnaise, which is only 125 Gold per omelet.

Actually, this cage is not only used for raising chickens. However, you can use it to raise other animals.

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Raised Farm Animals

As mentioned, initially you can only raise 4 chickens in the Regular cage type.

However, you can still upgrade the cage to the Deluxe type if you have 12 livestock.

The following is a list of livestock that you can keep in this cage. Guess what kind of animal, huh?

Chicken

If your chickens have been breeding for 3 nights, maybe you will get lots of eggs.

If you want to buy another chicken, you need capital of 800 Gold or put the chicken egg in the incubator for 9000 minutes or around 6-7 days.

Duck

If the adult ducks will lay eggs in 5 days, they will also breed eggs which can be sold for 250 Gold.

However, if you want to buy a new Duck, you need to have capital of 1,200 Gold and buy it at Marnie's Ranch.

Void Chicken

Void Chickens will breed faster and you can put their eggs in the Incubator.

Or you can also buy this Void Chicken from Krobus for 5,000 Gold or get it from Shane as a gift to you.

Golden Chicken

This chicken is also similar to other chickens, they can be cooked in an incubator and you can get the eggs for 500 Gold or you can also buy Golden Eggs for just 10,000 Gold.

Dinosaur

If you have adult dinosaurs, they will lay eggs once a week or it will take around 18,000 minutes to lay eggs.

You can also get dinosaur eggs by finding treasure chests, finding artifacts and winning games.

Rabbit

Rabbits can also grow every 6 nights and they will produce wool every 4 days.

You can also still buy the Rabbit for 8,000 Gold which you can keep later.

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So, that's information about how to build a cage in Stardew Valley. So, what animal do you want to raise in the Stardew Valley cage?

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