The Chicken Taming Exploit was something about taming jewels being on a vendor and bouncing back somewhere (vendor?) when you tried to equip them and that temporarily set your taming skill to 0? so you could go tame chickens for huge gains.
I guess your real taming came back at some point and added the new skill points in?
I just read about it here and I forget which post I read it in. Seems it was a patch or a publish someone questioned and someone answered the devs did something to stop the taming chickens exploit.
Oh here I found the thread:
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Re: [UO Herald] New Publish - All Live Servers
Well since its fixed...
I gather someone figured it out by taking a piece of jewelry off of their vendor and placing it directly on their paperdoll. By doing so would make it spring back on your vendor and lower your skill. Lower it enough, you get to the point where you get easy skill gains, log out and back in...skill returns to normal. But you got skills gains based off of your shown skill not real skill.
Tamers goto 120 taming sheep, skillup even if you fail.
Smiths goto 120 making daggers, gain skill even on fails.
Mages goto 120 casting a level 4 spell over and over never expending mana and fizeling the whole time.
This is of coarse lowering your shown skill to well below 0 negative 120.
Getting above skills was the same way but you needed an item to give you negative instead of a positive so -10 to a skill would bump it up +10 same with stats.
I am suprized they didnt fix they way to remove negative stats from faction death yet. Nope, not telling, my lips are sealed."
http://vboards.stratics.com/showthr...light=taming+jewel+vendor+exploit#post1568416
I did wonder why a guy on a hiryu was taming chickens but he was a pk so I figured he was on a lesser using bushido.
He did tell me he got a few days off no big deal when I laughed at him in chat a week or so later.
He was fussing in chat about someone else' pvp skills and I said come on now! you died to a giant serpent and you're awesome you can tame chickens in your sleep.
So not sure if he got a few days off for the taming script or not. Last I saw him the day he was taming he was dead.
I have wondered if GMs were there watching when the giant serpent found its way into the open gate of the bullpen!!