Keep a CS2 pet chicken fed and photographed

After the shell breaks you name the chick, put food in the bowl, and shoot pictures. This page is the care routine. Hatch clocks live on the egg page so the two answers do not blur.

Care details and evidence

Food

The wiki, SkinsMonkey, and SkinLords say Chicken Feed comes from the weekly care package and replaces both reward selections when claimed. One bag is described as lasting about three weeks. That duration is a community reading, and Valve’s patch text does not confirm the number, so I leave it labeled that way. If the bowl stays empty, the pet leaves. A warning around nine days shows up in the same guide.

Leave, retirement, or “died”

The wiki quotes game text about retirement: the bird has accepted a position elsewhere, and the offer includes meals. SkinLords says the pet dies and Hatchbook keeps a commemorative photo. SkinsMonkey talks about retirement after 140 days. I use “leaves” as the neutral verb and keep the other two wordings next to their sources. I will not pick a single euphemism and delete the rest.

Names

You can type up to 20 characters. The action sits under the pet as Rename. Guides say you get one rename per growth stage: once while it is a chick, again when it becomes a pullet. I have no separate Valve sentence for the character cap, so that cap stays a guide figure.

Photobooth and Hatchbook

Hatchbook is the album that arrives with the egg. Pages are described for chick, pullet, and hen, and you can copy a picture. Photobooth poses the bird with your agent and gloves. SkinsMonkey’s photo article counts 11 poses, 11 backgrounds, 10 hats, 9 effects, and 8 filters. Gloves in that booth are tied to the 2 Oct notes in the same cluster of articles. Some poses stay locked until pullet or hen. SkinLords mentions more than 150 animations, which I do not merge into the pose count.

Guides also say you cannot buy a second bird or hand one to a friend. One pet on the account is the limit they print.