When asked the lore-accurate cause of this problem, he blamed: “a strange rash”.
A couple of days ago it became clear that chickens were vanishing from some players coops.
“Lore: There is a wild coyote on the farm day 1 rn,“explained Barone.

This would surely horrify our ownbattery chicken farmerAlice B (RPS in peace).
Thankfully, that bug has sincebeen fixed, while the too-many-hats-on-animals issue is still being worked on.
“We will address the problem as soon as possible,” he said.
“Players now close their eyes when they go to bed,” reads one note fromupdate 1.4.
“Trees no longer grow on top of placed furniture items,” says another inupdate 1.5.4.
Meanwhile, the developer is still working on the follow-up life sim,Haunted Chocolatier.
Although splitting time between both that and Stardew updates isunsurprisingly difficult.