Ostrich Incubator
| Ostrich Incubator | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Professor Snail |
The Ostrich Incubator is the only way to raise ostriches. Marnie's Ranch never sells them, so every ostrich on a farm starts as an Ostrich Egg placed in this machine. It is a reward from Professor Snail for finishing the fossil work at the Island Field Office on Ginger Island. Unlike a normal incubator, it goes inside a Barn, where the hatched birds will live. One ostrich soon leads to a whole flock, because each grown bird lays an egg that can hatch the next.
Recipe
Professor Snail hands over the recipe at the Island Field Office. He asks for two things first: every fossil for his collection, and correct answers to his survey questions. Once all of that is done, he gives the Ostrich Incubator recipe as his reward.
The machine takes Bone Fragments, Hardwood and Cinder Shards. Cinder Shards come from the shard nodes and monsters of the Volcano Dungeon. Hardwood comes from Large Stumps, including the ones that grow back each day in the Secret Woods.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Bone Fragment | 
|
50 |
| Hardwood | 
|
50 |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
20 |
Use
The incubator must stand inside a Barn, since ostriches are barn animals rather than coop birds. Holding an Ostrich Egg and using it on the incubator starts the hatch.
Hatching takes a little over nine days. The Coopmaster profession halves that time. When the wait is over, a baby ostrich appears in the Barn and joins the other animals there.
The first egg comes from Ginger Island. Solving Journal Scrap #10 leads to a buried Ostrich Egg, and the rare chests in the Volcano Dungeon can also hold one. After that, each grown ostrich lays a fresh egg about once a week.
Notes
Ostriches reach adulthood after a week of daily feeding. From then on, the weekly eggs can either hatch more birds or go to market.
An Ostrich Egg is valuable in its own right. A Mayonnaise Machine turns a single egg into ten jars of Mayonnaise, and the jars keep the egg's quality. That makes it the only way to get silver or iridium Mayonnaise. Ten jars are worth far more than the raw egg, so every egg not needed for hatching is best sent through the machine. In recipes, an Ostrich Egg works just like an ordinary chicken egg.
As a gift, the egg is loved by Leo. Alex, Demetrius, Leah, Kent, Jodi, Linus, Marnie, Pierre, Sam and Shane all like it, which makes a spare egg a useful present.
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