Golden Egg
| Golden Egg | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Animal Product |
| Animal | Golden Chicken; Marnie's Ranch; Qi's Walnut Room; The Witch; Fishing Treasure Chest (0.12%) |
| Sell Price | 500g |
| Energy | 25 |
| Health | 11 |
The Golden Egg is the most valuable egg a chicken can lay, and one of the last rewards the valley hands out. It only enters the game after the farm reaches full Perfection. Golden Chickens lay one every day, and each sells for ten times a regular Egg. In a Mayonnaise Machine, a single Golden Egg becomes three jars of gold-quality Mayonnaise at once. The first egg is expensive or very lucky to find, but after that a golden flock can grow from its own eggs.
The in-game description reads: A very rare and special egg with a solid gold shell.
Production
A grown Golden Chicken lays one Golden Egg each morning, as long as it ate the day before. The egg's star quality follows the usual Coop rules, rising with friendship and a good mood. Daily petting, a full feeding bench and grazing on sunny days keep both scores high.
Getting that first egg is the hard part. Perfection must be complete before any Golden Egg can appear, and the Perfection Tracker in Qi's Walnut Room shows the progress. After that, Marnie's Ranch sells a Golden Egg for a very large sum of gold. Qi's Walnut Room offers one for Qi Gems instead. A rare night event can also bring one for free: a golden witch flies over a Coop and leaves an egg inside. A fishing Treasure Chest holds one on very rare occasions.
The egg then goes into the Incubator of a Big Coop or Deluxe Coop. It hatches into a Golden Chicken after about six days. Coopmaster farmers see the chick in three. Every egg the new bird lays can hatch another, so a single purchase can fill a whole Coop in time.
Prices
One normal Golden Egg sells for as much as ten plain eggs. At iridium quality, its price doubles.
The Mayonnaise Machine turns one Golden Egg into three gold-star jars. The machine ignores the egg's own stars, so every Golden Egg gives the same three jars. For normal, silver and gold eggs, those three jars bring in more than the egg itself. An iridium Golden Egg is the exception: it sells for more raw unless the Artisan profession is taken. With Artisan, the three jars gain two fifths in value and beat the raw egg at every quality. The Rancher profession instead raises the raw egg's price by a fifth.
Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.
| Quality | Price | Rancher (+20%) |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 500g | 600g |
 Silver
|
625g | 750g |
 Gold
|
750g | 900g |
 Iridium
|
1,000g | 1,200g |
Uses
In cooking, a Golden Egg can stand in for a chicken or Duck Egg. Every egg recipe accepts it, from a Fried Egg to Crab Cakes. Turning a Golden Egg into a plain dish wastes most of its value, though, so a regular egg is the better choice for the kitchen.
Golden Eggs also count toward "Gus' Famous Omelet" when Gus posts that order on the Special Orders board.
Gifts
Despite the gold shell, villagers treat the Golden Egg like any chicken egg. Ten villagers are pleased by it: Alex, Demetrius, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Linus, Marnie, Pierre, Sam and Shane. It meets dislike from Abigail, Haley, Jas, Pam, Vincent, the Dwarf and the Wizard. Sebastian hates it.
Notes
A Golden Chicken takes the same space and the same single portion of food as an ordinary hen. Swapping ordinary hens for golden ones therefore multiplies egg income without any extra upkeep.
A Golden Animal Cracker fed to a Golden Chicken doubles its eggs for the rest of its life.
All Animal Products
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Animal | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Products Profitability | - | - | - |
| Dinosaur Egg | 
|
Dinosaur; Artifact Spot in The Mountains / Quarry (0.6%); Fishing Treasure Chests (0.7-0.8%); Pepper Rex drop (10%); Prehistoric Floors in the Skull Cavern; Crane Game in Movie Theater | 350g |
| Duck Egg | 
|
Ducks | 95g |
| Duck Feather | 
|
Duck; Cat | 250g |
| Egg | 
|
Chicken | 50g |
| Goat Milk | 
|
Goat | 225g |
| Golden Egg | 
|
Golden Chicken; Marnie's Ranch; Qi's Walnut Room; The Witch; Fishing Treasure Chest (0.12%) | 500g |
| Large Egg | 
|
Chicken | 95g |
| Large Goat Milk | 
|
Goat | 345g |
| Large Milk | 
|
Cow | 190g |
| Milk | 
|
Cow | 125g |
| Ostrich Egg | 
|
Ostrich | 600g |
| Rabbit's Foot | 
|
Rabbit; Traveling Cart; Serpent drop (0.8%); Cat | 565g |
| Roe | 
|
Fish Pond; Fishing Treasure Chests | - |
| Slime | 
|
Slimes; Krobus; Slime Ball; Traveling Cart; Fish Pond | - |
| Slime Ball | 
|
Slime Hutch | - |
| Void Egg | 
|
Void Chicken; Witch; Krobus; Void Salmon Fish Ponds | 65g |
| Wool | 
|
Rabbit; Sheep | 340g |