When a chicken is standing above a half slab and you put lava on the slab, the chicken would actually stay alive for a couple of seconds until it finaly gets killed.
But still they won't
[media]drop cooked chickens, just only raw chickens
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-74990, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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