Experimental Automatic Chicken Breeding System
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This is a brief overview of the automatic chicken breeding chamber I have created in one of my survival games, utilizing the new hopper and comparator blocks from the recent snapshots. It will continuously create an unlimited number of chickens without the need for player intervention (unless the system becomes overloaded, which can happen if you don't kill off any chickens).
I should note that it is quite easy to create a somewhat less efficient breeding chamber that doesn't use the minecart. Just replace one of the hoppers inside the breeding chamber with the dispenser and leave one block empty in front of it, then place the other hoppers so that they feed into the dispenser. Eggs laid in the empty block in front of the dispenser or on top of the dispenser will not be collected and fed back into the system (though you could put a hopper underneath the empty block and feed those eggs into a chest you can empty manually).
The autofire dispenser I use was taken from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlRjwo7-GE