Few other animals have been as big a sensation in this game as the Farmville golden chicken. How do you get one? What do you need to be eligible for one? What is the point of the golden chicken anyway apart from extra kudos?
Buy For Farmville Cash
The golden chicken is available at the market but you need a hefty 25 Farmville cash to buy it. Many players are not willing to spend this amount on the golden chicken (or even convert real money into Farmville cash either) and prefer to get one via other means.
What You Need First
Make sure that you first have a chicken coop. This will cost you 5,000 coins at the market.
Why do you need a chicken coop first? Without one, it is simply not possible to hatch your golden chicken from the eggs that you are soon going to need.
You can still grab the eggs, but without a chicken coop you will later be kicking yourself when you realised that you just missed a "golden" opportunity (no pun intended).
Golden Eggs
You need to get a golden egg before you can hatch a golden chicken in your chicken coop.
The best way to get one is to monitor your news feed and live feed and see when a friend posts a mystery golden egg on their wall. You must be very quick though. Even if just ten minutes passes by, you may no longer be able to claim your golden egg. I have even heard stories of golden eggs being claimed within ten seconds!
Harvest Your Own Mystery Gold Eggs
You can also make your own golden eggs by putting your golden chicken into your chicken coop.
Why Is The Golden Chicken So Sought After?
Although less of a "must have" now compared to earlier, you need to have a neighbour with a golden chicken so that you can get the golden egg in the first place to hatch your own golden chicken.
In the early days, there were few people with golden chickens at all. Now that the population has multiplied many times over, they are much easier to come by. However, most farms still don't have any golden chickens at all which means that they will still be highly sought after for many months to come at least!
When most people have a golden chicken then the logical thing for Zynga to do is to release a new type of chicken. Platinum chicken, anyone?