Egg Progress

[GodOffal 0]

Hi everyone.  A few days ago i told everyone i would let them know how my chicken eggs were doing.  If they would hatch or not.  Ive had them in my inventory for several days now and were getting close. here is where were at now...

[Saddist 82]

if you have a fenced deed put one egg per tile with a seed.

at our village they mostly decay but from time to time one will hatch.

[GodOffal 0]

first one hatched, no chicken

now 3 are at 99.60, 2 are at 90.83 and the last one is at 76.20

[GodOffal 0]

5 more eggs hatched, no chickens still, one more to go at 80 dmg

also i now have 5 new eggs

[Protunia 735]

what if horses and other animals had a fail rate like this

[syncaidius 159]

what if horses and other animals had a fail rate like this

People would keep a hundred horses each to compensate.  

[GodOffal 0]

what if horses and other animals had a fail rate like this

People would keep a hundred horses each to compensate.  

indeed they would

[wolfersmcwolf 39]

what if horses and other animals had a fail rate like this

People would keep a hundred horses each to compensate.  

indeed they would

*looks around freedom* you mean they dont do that now

[GodOffal 0]

Ive not seen any farms with 100, see a few with 30-40 ish but not close to 100

[Dannyiron 6]

I've seen huuuge horse farmes before, 150+

[whykillme 1,621]

30 is already to much for just one kind of animal.. lol

[wolfersmcwolf 39]

I have seen farms of 300+ horses, diseased and dieing, Corpses everywere from the horse decay. You guys kill most of those horses, and youll get more Aggro animals, START KILLING! ill give 10c to the first person to kill and bury 7000 horses theres like 10k i think youd be doing a good deed for prem freedom and deeds everywere, KILL THE NOOBS WITH LOW FS... uhh i mean. Save the bears

[GodOffal 0]

i see this is going completely off topic, anyhow egg #7 hatched, no chicken

[Kanton 0]

So all 7 have hatched..not one chickadee?

Well, that sucks...nothing like 100% fail rates in a game.

Kanton.

[Schiann 994]

My kids and I have gone through hundreds of eggs at this point (stopped counting months ago, when we hit 400) and in the last year, we've had 2 hatch.

[Maximilus 0]

My kids and I have gone through hundreds of eggs at this point (stopped counting months ago, when we hit 400) and in the last year, we've had 2 hatch.

[GodOffal 0]

I got a chicken here still laying eggs. ill keep the count going and see what it take, well so long as one hatches in this chickens lifespan.

[Ols 305]

Saw one chick hatch from a miracle egg that someone brought over from GV once. It starved before maturity.

[snakegal 177]

i just had a chicken hatch on wild...

[GodOffal 0]

15 more eggs hatched, still no chicken, but i did find another chicken in the wild so now i have 2 laying them.  I dont know if one will ever hatch here at this point lol, but ill keep trying

[Evilvision 301]

I havent had one hatch since JKH.

[Elwood2 352]

I havent had one hatch since JKH.

Item dito.

[Tamorlane 381]

I have hatched more than 20+ eggs on Freedom, but stopped bothering since the effort was not commensurate with the results.

What I did to get eggs to hatch:

I had a 4x8 pen with crops in it, not grass.  One rooster and maybe 3 chickens (moved excess chickens to another field as they matured sine the number of eggs got ridiculous).  Every time the hens laid I would pick up all the eggs, since it seems that the eggs can not be in a pile (with other eggs or anything really).  Place one egg per tile by itself.  If a hen laid on a tile that had an egg, removed the excess eggs and redistributed to other tiles.  Leave seeds wherever there are not eggs.  Wait, with low expectations.

Assumptions (not facts):

I am convinced you need a rooster near the eggs at some point. While the "RL" parallel would make this seem obvious, it may be a stretch for Wurm.

Eggs will hatch if piled up, but never result in a chick.  I have only ever had chicks when the egg was on a tile by itself.

Granted I did not construct sufficient controls to result in any indisputable data, but it was enough for me.  Of course, it is also possible that I am completely insane.

[Elwood2 352]

i think its the later tamorlane

[GodOffal 0]

5 more eggs, still no results, ill try your method tam and see if i can get somethin to happen