Fresh Poultry

Bird meat from Primitive+

Fresh Poultry is raw bird meat that belongs to the Primitive+ DLC for ARK: Survival Evolved. Survivors can eat it, cook it, feed it to creatures or leave it to rot on purpose. Its in-game text warns: "Don't eat raw! Poultry that can be used for special recipes or normal nourishment." Despite that warning, the ARK Wiki notes that eating it raw does restore food and health.

Where it comes from

Bird corpses yield it when harvested, much as the bodies of most other creatures yield Raw Meat. The wiki counts the Dodo, Terror Bird, Argentavis, Quetzal and Pelagornis among the birds.

Food values for survivors and creatures

• Eating: a survivor regains 20 food and 10 health per piece.
• Feeding: a creature gets 100 food from one piece, against 50 from Raw Meat, and the wiki calls it a good fit for raising baby carnivores. The trade-off is a smaller stack and a faster spoil timer.
• Taming: carnivores accept it like Raw Meat, but with the doubled food value a tame takes twice as long, so the wiki does not recommend it for taming.

Cooking and recipes

Cooked over a fire it becomes Cooked Poultry; in a Campfire this takes 5 seconds. According to the wiki, the cooked version restores more food than the raw piece, keeps longer than both the raw piece and Cooked Meat, and stacks higher than the raw piece, yet gives creatures only 50 food. Our records show Fresh Poultry in 3 recipes: Cooked Poultry, Broth and Fish Bait.

Spoiling, weight and stacks

In a survivor's inventory it turns into Spoiled Meat after 3 minutes, compared with 10 minutes for Raw Meat. Each piece weighs 0.1 and only 5 fit in a stack, for 0.5 per full stack. Within a stack a single piece spoils at a time before the timer starts again, and splitting a stack leaves both halves on the same timer. Players who want a lot of Spoiled Meat can split a stack into single pieces so they all spoil together; given its shorter timer, the wiki considers poultry better than Raw Meat for that job.