Backported Chickens
A simple but effective resource pack which backports the new warm and cold chicken variants to previous versions of the game! Each pig variant now spawns in their respective biome, including support for outdated biome IDs in older versions.
Requires Optifine or both EMF + ETF installed to work.
Download Links
Optifine: https://optifine.net/home
Entity Model Features: https://modrinth.com/mod/entity-model-features
Entity Texture Features https://modrinth.com/mod/entitytexturefeatures
Also check out:
Backported Piggies https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/backported-piggies
Backported Cows https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/backported-cows
This project on CurseForge https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/backported-chickens
All assets within this resource pack are owned by Mojang and do not belong to me
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .zip (resource pack)
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.8.9, 1.9, 1.9.2
- How to install: Download the .zip resource pack — do not unzip it. → Put it in .minecraft/resourcepacks. → Enable it in Options → Resource Packs.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java resource packs walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as Backported Chickens.zip
- Download size: 9 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.