How to Get the 404 Chick
What this page helps you decide: which egg to hatch for the 404 Chick, and how many hatches to budget before it shows up
The 404 Chick is a Secret chicken, tier 10 of 10 on the rarity ladder that appears in the drop data. 2 eggs can hatch it, and the best published rate is 8% from the Blazing Egg — about 13 hatches before you should expect to see one. Below: every route in with the expected hatches worked out, where it sits among the 20 outcomes of that egg, how it compares with the other Secret chickens, and what we found when we checked the published percentages.
Which route is actually faster
The Blazing Egg drops it at 8%; the Cursed Egg at under 1%. In expected hatches that is roughly 15 times more work on the slower route. Supply is the catch. The Blazing Egg cannot be farmed on demand, so the better rate only helps once you are already holding one. If you are working with eggs you can produce yourself, the Cursed Egg is the route that actually applies, and you should budget the 200 hatches that implies rather than the headline number.
Where it sits inside the Blazing Egg
The Blazing Egg can hatch 20 different chickens. The 404 Chick is the 4th most likely of them, with 16 outcomes sitting below it on the table. At that position it is one of the outcomes you are genuinely farming for, not something that shows up on the way to something else. Plan the session around it rather than expecting it as a side effect.
Against the other Secret chickens
There are 2 Secret chickens in the current drop data. Ranked by best available rate, 1 of them is easier to obtain than the 404 Chick and 0 are harder. It is the hardest one at this tier, which is worth knowing before committing a session to it.
What the published table does not say
These rates come from a single community index rather than the game files, so we checked the arithmetic before using them. 9 of the 17 egg tables do not add up to 100 percent — across the set they run from 91 to 102 percent. The Blazing Egg table does add up, which is a small point in its favour. Rounded rates are good enough for deciding which egg to farm. They are not good enough for predicting any single hatch, and anywhere a rate is written as "under 1%" the true value could be several times smaller than the estimate above.
Step-by-Step
- Get hold of a Blazing Egg; it is not laid by any chicken you can keep, so this step is the real bottleneck.
- Hatch it repeatedly and budget around 13 hatches at the published 8%.
- Skip the Cursed Egg route unless the faster egg is out of reach — it costs roughly 200 hatches instead.
- Treat it as the target of the session; at 4th of 20 it will not appear as a side effect.
Data Tables
| Egg | Published rate | Expected hatches | How you get that egg | Source table sums to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blazing Egg | 8% | 13 | Only obtainable from the Hot Event or by redeeming Grow a Chicken Figh | 100% |
| Cursed Egg | under 1% | 200 | Laid by the NPC Chick | 100% |
FAQ
How do you get the 404 Chick in Grow a Chicken Fighter?
Hatch the Blazing Egg. It drops the 404 Chick at 8%, which works out to roughly 13 hatches before you should expect one.
What rarity is the 404 Chick?
Secret, which is tier 10 of the 10 rarity steps that appear in the drop data.
Is the 404 Chick worth farming for?
Only if you want this specific chicken. At 4th of 20 outcomes it will not turn up as a by-product of farming that egg for something else.
Is the Cursed Egg worth using for it?
Only when the Blazing Egg is out of reach. The rate there is under 1% against 8%, which is about 200 hatches instead of 13.
Sources
- Community Grow a Chicken Fighter Eggs Index (community drop table) — Single community source for every drop rate on this page. Captured 2026-08-27. We recomputed each table: 9 of 17 do not sum to 100%, so the rates are treated as rounded throughout.