Rock Dove Egg

Rock Dove Egg
Vital statistics
Size	1 x 1
Stack	Max:3 (Eggs)
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	None
Object(s) Required	Rock Dove, Bird Nest
Produced By	Dovecote
Specific Type of	Egg
Required By	(1) Rock Dove Squab, (Egg (13): Batter, Boiled Egg, Egg & Bacon, Fried Egg, Omelette, Poached Wolverine, Purple Pigment, Soot Egg, Unbaked Egg Cake, Unbaked Fishpie, Unbaked Magpie (Pie), Unbaked Meatpie, Unbaked Wellplaiced Pie)
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An egg laid by a Rock Dove. Required by several cooking recipes, can be eaten fried or boiled.

How to Acquire

Rock Dove eggs are laid by doves in a Dovecote. It takes roughly 24 hours for a dove to lay an egg. There needs to be at least one empty space below the hen, otherwise the egg won't appear.

All eggs laid within a Dovecote are counted as fertile. Fertile eggs need to be brooded by a dove in order to hatch. To be brooded, the egg needs to be in a space anywhere below the dove. A fertilized egg can be moved, but if it's been without a brooding dove for too long, the hatching process will stop. This will "kill" the egg, effectively turning it into unfertilized.

Fertilized eggs show a timer counting up to 100%, this indicates when a Rock Dove Squab is going to hatch. It takes about a day (real time) for a squab to hatch from an egg.

Quality

New eggs that are laid will have a quality of the quality of the dove, ±5. (Incomplete. Quality of food and water also seem to matter.)

Notes

• The fertilized rock dove egg counter has the same behavior as the fertilized chicken egg counter. The counter initially don't shows on really fresh eggs. (counter display probably kicks in at [C >= 0.5%])

Trivia

Because removing a fertilized egg doesn't immediately stop its hatching timer, squabs sometimes hatch inside a cauldron while boiling eggs.