Thank you, Mr ConcernedApe (sole creator of Stardew Valley), for thinking of the birds in these crazy times.
Stardew Valley players hear me now, the recent surge of fowl falling foul of a nasty bug around freshly built Meadowland Farms has been fixed at last.
This wonderful news came via a short and sweet bug fix patch released today, with a PlayStation patch with the same fixes coming in the near future.
Fixes include improved Russian and French translations, some crash fixes, and of course a fix for in-game chickens disspearing suddenly when players built Meadowlands farms.