Today was a BIG day for new features. Since they are several I will post them in several postings.

1.  CHICKEN COOP

The threads on forums and blogs on what the next useful special storing building "with a purpose" should be, were long… very long. So I think everyone was very curious to what the next thing would be. And hey… it's here! It's the Chicken Coop! (a certain percentage of users will now jump in the air).

An "EGG" notification is shown currently on the left of the game with a pretty large egg on there. That is a nice banner for the building #35: the Chicken Coop which occupies 3x2 spaces and resells for 290 coins.

You can buy it both from the marketplace or get it as a gift and you can only get one of it.

When you started the game this day it will jump immediately to the market to give you the offer to buy the chicken coop. It costs a mere 5000 and let's you harvest the chicken within a day.

However… the chicken coop is also giftable! So you can also receive a chicken coop as a gift! (and save yourself the 5000 coins)

After you build it you will notice 2 things:

the first thing is that the Chicken Coop is only available once. After that it is locked. Meaning: you can only buy one. If you receive it as a gift and you have one already you get a chicken instead. It takes one day to produce eggs and … you have the chance to produce some mystery eggs!

2. Chickens are now only giftable and pigs no longer are

And now the other news: in the past you could buy chickens from the MarketPlace but as of today (I think to increase social interaction). Chickens are only available as a gift. So I guess we will see lots of users begging for Chickens.

The pig however now is no longer available as a Gift but only available from the marketplace. So they switched places. The Pig costs 1000 Coins and you get 10 XP when placing it. It has a resell value of 50 coins and the same 30 coins that you can earn from it when you collect the truffles from it.

3. Mysterious Eggs

The second thing around the coops is the mysterious message about some Premium White Mystery Eggs. "you might find some special eggs in there too…" . Well now… that is cool. it is … a Premium White Mystery Egg (see below). Right after that we get another instructions: "Get more Mystery Eggs by adding more chickens to your coop! Different color chickens give you better eggs!" … Different Color Chickens?

When you Click it, it will appear on your neigbor's walls.

And I think that leads  to… A LOT of Premium White Mystery Eggs filling our walls:

So we have 2 tasks: 1. Add more chicken to our Coop and preferably different colored chickens. 2. Follow the walls and click "Hatch an Egg" to get a new set of objects.

4. Inside The mystery Eggs:

So.. what is inside the mystery eggs? It seems a lot of different stuff. This is what is in my gift box right now:

	A brown chicken which produces uncommon Brown Mystery Eggs which probably produce more interesting things, it will produce premium white mystery eggs. You can sell it for 20 coins… or put it on your land or in the Chicken Coop! It is rotatable, pettable and you let it stay or walk on it own.
	A white Chicken, A pretty regular white chicken … but… it will produce premium white mystery eggs. It sells for 20 coins if you don't want it after all.
	A decoration Flamingo, it sells for 50 coins and was already available and is the one which was already available for 9 Farm Cash (it was actually the first thing I ever bought for Farm Cash)
	A garden gnome (which sells for 75 coins), which was already regularly available for 13 Farm Cash, so that is still nice
	A Chicken Coop (!) but note that you can only get one, so if you already had one you get the message that you get a chicken instead:

More Links:

- official announcement: http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=260792 on the forums by lexilicious
- farmvillemania on the new chicken coop: http://www.farmvillemania.de/2009/11/13/ein-neuer-huhnerstall-uberraschungseier-inklusive/
- lightchan on the chicken coop: http://www.lightchan.com/2009/11/13/farmville-chicken-coop/
- farmvillefreak on the new chicken coop: http://farmvillefreak.com/?p=1096

The official announcement:

Chicken Coops are now available in FarmVille! This Building That Matters is a little different than the Dairy Farm, so keep reading to find out more information!

• Chicken Coops can be purchased for 5000 Coins from the Marketplace. Chicken Coops are also a Giftable Item, so make sure to ask your friends to send you one if you don't wish to purchase it.

• Chicken Coops can be used once every 24 hours and will yield the sum of all of the Chickens stored within. (For example: if 10 Chickens are placed in the Chicken Coops, and are harvestable for 6 coins apiece, you will receive 60 coins.)

• Once your Chicken Coop reaches 100%, it is ready for Harvest. When Harvesting your Chicken Coop, you have a chance to receive a "Mystery Egg".

• Mystery Eggs can be White, Brown, Black or Golden. If you receive a Mystery Egg, you will see a pop-up that allows you to post a feed to your wall. This pop-up will also tell you what type of egg you received.

• Once you post the feed to your wall, up to 5 of your friends can click on the feed. These friends will receive various items, including different colored chickens!

• Please note that you can only have one Chicken Coop on your farm! If a player receives multiple Chicken coops, the additional Chicken Coops will become Chickens that can be used on your Farm.

• To place a chicken in the Chicken Coop, click on a chicken, and select the "Move" option. You will then be able to hover the chicken over your Chicken Coop and release it. When the chicken is hovered over the Chicken Coop, the Chicken Coop will light up with a yellow outline.

• To remove a chicken from your Chicken Coop, click on your Dairy Farm, and select "Remove Chicken"