Grow a Garden event
Grow a Garden: Chicken Zombie — What It Included
The Chicken Zombie event brought a one-week content update to Grow a Garden, built around a zombified farmer riding a feathered mount. It ran for about a week in May 2025 and has long since wrapped, but the pet, seeds, and gear it introduced are worth a look back for anyone piecing together the game’s update history.
Grow a Garden has since grown into one of Roblox’s largest titles, with tens of billions of lifetime visits and well over 11 million favorites. The game still draws over 40,000 concurrent players as of this writing, and continues to roll out limited-time content in the same vein as Chicken Zombie.
Grow a Garden
🐔🧟CHICKEN ZOMBIE🧟🐔
A feathered friend
May 17, 10:00 AM – May 24, 6:00 AM ET
Once a humble farmer, now a zombified troublemaker with a feathered ride. This chaotic duo is ready to tear through gardens! Explore and unlock a new Chicken Zombie pet, seeds, gear, features, and so much more in this new Grow A Garden update! 🐔🌪️🌱
— the developer's event listing
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What was in it
The event’s theme cast an ordinary farmer as a zombified troublemaker riding a chicken, and the update built a small set of new content around that idea:
- A Chicken Zombie pet, unlockable through the event
- New seeds added alongside the pet
- New gear tied to the theme
- A handful of smaller features rounding out the update
It was a lighter content drop rather than a full new-map release — the focus was squarely on the pet and the items built around it.
When it ran
Chicken Zombie ran from May 17 to May 24, 2025, opening at 10:00 AM ET and closing at 6:00 AM ET — the exact window is on the card above. That one-week span was typical for this kind of themed update in Grow a Garden, long enough for most players to unlock the pet without it overstaying its welcome.
How it fit the game’s rhythm
Grow a Garden has kept up a steady cadence of updates since Chicken Zombie closed. Smaller recurring sessions like Watering Wednesday show up roughly weekly, while bigger week-long pushes — Campfire Part 4 and the Summer event currently running are recent examples — arrive on top of that regular rhythm. Chicken Zombie sat closer to the smaller end of that scale: a themed pet drop rather than a sprawling seasonal event, but part of the same pattern of frequent, bite-sized content the game has stuck with since.
FAQ
What was the Chicken Zombie event in Grow a Garden?
It was a limited-time content update themed around a zombified farmer and his chicken mount, adding a new Chicken Zombie pet along with matching seeds and gear.
What did the Chicken Zombie event include?
The Chicken Zombie pet itself, plus new seeds and gear introduced alongside it, and a few smaller features tied to the theme.
When did the Chicken Zombie event end?
It ended May 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM ET, after running for about a week from its May 17 start.
Is the Chicken Zombie event still available in Grow a Garden?
No, it’s no longer active. It closed out in May 2025 and hasn’t returned since, though Grow a Garden continues to run similar limited-time updates.