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[Vox]

I've recently begun building a chicken bomb trap at the entrance to my fort.
3 cages, about 100 chickens in each cage lined up in a 1x1 hallway.
Gobbys walk in, trap is sprung, chickens everywhere.
Hoping to take out at least one this way, would be quite funny.

Do you have any funny stories relating to animal bombs?

[Mister Always]

Chickens won't attack gobbos, unless you've modded them to be [PET_TRAINABLE] and trained them all into war chickens. Even war chickens won't do a lot of good against goblins, because chickens are super small and goblins wear lots of clothes.

Now, once cassowaries are in, that'll be different...

[Mitchewawa]

Perhaps one of the goblins will trip over a chicken into another goblins axe?

[Mister Always]

The combat system isn't quite that advanced yet.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Think of it this way, all those crossbowgoblins won't have any bolts left.

[Remalle]

Rename the chickens as cuccoos, and make it so there's one hanging around outside that the goblins can chase onto a pressure plate, releasing the cages.

[Trodglen]

If you assigned a chained chicken to a one tile burrow or pen, and placed a pressure plate opposite the incoming wave of attackers, I think you could effectively rig a Legend of Zelda-esque chicken swarm.

[Muttonhawk]

maybe if cockfighting is implemented, you could eventually train chickens to be unstoppable killing machines through cruel sparring!

[FearfulJesuit]

Wait, if they won't attack because they weren't trained, how'd that one guy get his swarm of rabbits to attack that Bronze Colossus?

[Grumbledwarfskin]

Untrained animals will sometimes attack invaders, and overcrowded animals will attack anything. It's guaranteed that the chickens will attack at least one goblin in their desire to pluck each others' eyes out due to the massive overcrowding of three hundred chickens released in a space smaller than 300 tiles.

Go for it!

[Aspgren]

I strongly support this!

My only relevant experience is "the cat pit" which was built long before grazers came. So did cats attack eachother? No. No they did not.

 It was hilarious regardless to throw a goblin prisoner into the pit. A dozen cats attacked him all at once and destroyed him! slowly and painfully!

[Vox]

Perhaps one of the goblins will trip over a chicken into another goblins axe?

Think of it this way, all those crossbowgoblins won't have any bolts left.

Untrained animals will sometimes attack invaders, and overcrowded animals will attack anything. It's guaranteed that the chickens will attack at least one goblin in their desire to pluck each others' eyes out due to the massive overcrowding of three hundred chickens released in a space smaller than 300 tiles.

Go for it!

All of this.
Is all the reason I need.

[proxn_punkd]

Rename the chickens as cuccoos, and make it so there's one hanging around outside that the goblins can chase onto a pressure plate, releasing the cages.

If you're going to do this, give them PRONE_TO_RAGE

The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!
The cucco hen has become enraged!

[Sting_Auer]

Cassowary.

[dr_random]

I support your effort, I am currently breeding turkey en masse for a similar effect. I made very good experience with a bird of prey I came into possession once. Can't remember how. Did I buy it? I penned it in the entrance hall and when the trolls walked through my crappy trap setup it attacked him ferousciously.
A 'hundreds of chicken' carnage just has to do hilariously.
I also considered egging intruders. Maybe done by a dwarf, specifically designed to tantrum all the time. Would that be possible?