Automation (9 raw chicken nugget items on a crafting table produces a chicken, might lag with a lot of items though due to needing to check each entity)
Tinker's Construct support (it already has a nugget cast)
This would allow you to make molten Chicken pipelines connected to Casting Tables for automated nugget distribution
oh no
you could decrease the maximum bulk crafting count if 64 sounds like a bad idea.