I'm not sure if I'm just having the worst luck imaginable, if something changed about how basket traps work, or if there is some weird mod issue, but I have spent several in game days and half a stack worth of flax trying to catch a mating pair of chickens, yet they have eluded me every single time. Not even one chicken. I don't have many mods and the only one that changes anything about animals was Butchering, but I removed that when I realized it didn't work with the latest update. This world is only a IRL week old, has only existed in v1.22.2 (stable), and the Butchering mod was removed before the creation of this world.
Any ideas?
