Rooster Rivals beginner guide: from chicks to competition

Rooster Rivals connects hatching chicks, feeding and training your flock, breeding for colours and a Champion Bloodline, and competing with your birds.

To recognize and collect chicks ready to leave the incubator:

1. Open the incubator when the hatched-chicks notice tells you to take them out.
2. Look for a chick marked “HATCHED! Waiting in your incubator.”
3. Use TAKE OUT for the selected chick, or ALL OUT to remove the waiting hatched chicks together.

An egg being inside the incubator does not mean it will hatch automatically. The panel explicitly says: “Only eggs you HATCH will hatch. The rest stay in here, unhatched.” This separates eggs still waiting for the hatch action from chicks that have already hatched and need collecting.

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How the flock’s activities fit together

Hatching is the starting point for raising your flock. Once you have chicks, feeding and training are the raising activities that connect them to the game’s broader goal of developing champion roosters. The incubator is therefore one part of that progression: it holds both eggs awaiting hatching and hatched chicks awaiting removal, so checking the displayed state tells you which action is relevant.

Breeding gives your flock another direction beyond raising individual birds. You can breed for colours and work toward a Champion Bloodline. That makes breeding part of developing the flock across generations, while feeding and training concern the birds you are raising. Use the incubator parent and hatch-state guide to read a chick’s displayed parent names; for collection controls, use the hatched-chick guide.

Competition is where you take your birds into ranked Arena battles and tournaments. The Gym Leader is another competition option. These activities give the raising side of the game a purpose: you are developing birds that you can then bring into competitive play. See the battle guide when you want to focus on that part of the game.

Maturing and leveling are related parts of raising

Growth boosts and extra XP help roosters mature and level up more quickly. Keep both ideas in mind when thinking about progress: raising involves a bird’s growth as well as its levels, alongside the feeding and training activities that form the core flock routine.

These boosts support the raising portion of the game. Breeding has its own stated goals—colours and a Champion Bloodline—and competition provides the Arena, tournaments and Gym Leader as places to use your birds.

Your farm supports the flock

Farm expansion runs alongside raising and competition. You can develop the farm with coops, training cages, decor and more land. These are different parts of building out your farm, rather than additional stages inside the incubator process. The farm-building guide is the related reference for that side of progression.

The farm also has nighttime threats, with guard dogs serving as a protection feature at night. That adds farm protection to the things you manage while developing your flock. For more on that feature, see the guard-dog guide.