Ostrich

Ostrich

Type	Animal
Building	Barn
Produce	Ostrich Egg

The Ostrich is a rare barn animal tied to Ginger Island. Every ostrich hatches from an Ostrich Egg in an Ostrich Incubator. A grown ostrich lays one huge egg a week, which it leaves on the Barn floor like a Coop bird. That single egg turns into ten jars of Mayonnaise, and the jars keep the egg's own quality. The ostrich is the only route to silver and iridium Mayonnaise. It also fits in the basic Barn, so it can join the farm long before pigs or sheep.

Care

An ostrich shares the Barn and its routine with cows and goats. It eats one portion of grass or Hay each day. On sunny days it walks out through the open door to graze, and fresh grass gives it the best mood. In rain and through Winter it stays inside and eats from the trough. A Heater in the Barn helps its mood on Winter evenings. Closing the door only after the whole herd is home keeps it from a grumpy morning or a wild animal attack.

Petting the ostrich every day raises its friendship towards five hearts and lifts its mood. Good friendship and mood raise the chance of better-quality eggs. The Auto-Grabber collects Ostrich Eggs from the Barn floor along with the milk and wool.

New ostriches come from the Ostrich Incubator, while pregnancy is left to the other barn animals.

Produce

A mature, fed ostrich lays an Ostrich Egg every seven days. The egg is a valuable sale on its own, but processing pays far more.

Putting an Ostrich Egg into a Mayonnaise Machine makes ten jars of Mayonnaise in a few hours. At normal quality, those ten jars are worth about three times the raw egg. The Mayonnaise matches the egg's quality. A gold or iridium egg therefore turns into a whole stack of top-quality jars. The Artisan profession raises the value of every jar again.

Ostrich Eggs also work like ordinary eggs in all cooking recipes. They count for Gus' Famous Omelet on the Special Orders board. Leo loves an Ostrich Egg as a gift. Alex, Demetrius, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Linus, Marnie, Pierre, Sam and Shane like one. Sebastian hates it.

Buying

The first Ostrich Egg comes from Ginger Island. Solving Journal Scrap #10 gives one as a guaranteed reward. Rare chests in the Volcano Dungeon sometimes hold one as well.

Hatching it needs an Ostrich Incubator placed inside a Barn. Professor Snail gives the recipe after the fossil collection and surveys at the Island Field Office are complete. The Coopmaster profession halves the incubation time.

A fully befriended ostrich sells for a very large sum, one of the highest of any farm animal.

Notes

An ostrich lays far less often than a chicken but makes up for it in volume. One egg a week gives ten jars of Mayonnaise, more than a chicken's week of eggs produces.

An ostrich fed a Golden Animal Cracker lays double from then on, which means twenty jars of Mayonnaise a week.

All Animals

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Building	Price	Produce
Chicken		Coop	800g	Egg; Brown Egg; Large Egg; Large Brown Egg
Cow		Barn	1500g	Milk; Large Milk
Dinosaur		Big Coop	-	Dinosaur Egg
Duck		Big Coop	1200g	Duck Egg; Duck Feather
Dusty	-	-	-	-
Goat		Big Barn	4000g	Goat Milk; Large Goat Milk
Golden Chicken		Big Coop	-	Golden Egg
Ostrich		Barn	-	Ostrich Egg
Pig		Deluxe Barn	16000g	Truffle
Rabbit		Deluxe Coop	8000g	Rabbit's Foot; Wool
Sheep		Deluxe Barn	8000g	Wool
Void Chicken		Big Coop	-	Void Egg