How to Get the Commando Rooster
What this page helps you decide: which egg to hatch for the Commando Rooster, and how many hatches to budget before it shows up
The Commando Rooster is a Epic chicken, tier 4 of 10 on the rarity ladder that appears in the drop data. 2 eggs can hatch it, and the best published rate is 12% from the Thunder Egg — about 8 hatches before you should expect to see one. Below: every route in with the expected hatches worked out, where it sits among the 16 outcomes of that egg, how it compares with the other Epic chickens, and what we found when we checked the published percentages.
Which route is actually faster
The Thunder Egg drops it at 12%; the Ordnance Egg at 7%. In expected hatches that is roughly 2 times more work on the slower route. Both eggs come from chickens you can keep on the plot, so the higher rate is simply the one to farm.
Where it sits inside the Thunder Egg
The Thunder Egg can hatch 16 different chickens. The Commando Rooster is the 2nd most likely of them, with 14 outcomes sitting below it on the table. At that position it turns up often enough that a dedicated farm is usually wasted effort — it arrives while you are chasing the rarer drops in the same egg.
Against the other Epic chickens
There are 29 Epic chickens in the current drop data. Ranked by best available rate, 4 of them are easier to obtain than the Commando Rooster and 24 are harder. Rarity labels are not difficulty labels: two chickens carrying the same tag can sit an order of magnitude apart in expected hatches.
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 Thunder 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
- Keep a Sergeant Hen on your plot — it lays the Thunder Egg, which is the source you can actually control.
- Hatch it repeatedly and budget around 8 hatches at the published 12%.
- Skip the Ordnance Egg route unless the faster egg is out of reach — it costs roughly 14 hatches instead.
- Treat it as a by-product: farm the Thunder Egg for its rarer outcomes and this one will arrive on the way.
Data Tables
| Egg | Published rate | Expected hatches | How you get that egg | Source table sums to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunder Egg | 12% | 8 | Laid by the Sergeant Hen | 100% |
| Ordnance Egg | 7% | 14 | Laid by the Commando Rooster | 100% |
FAQ
How do you get the Commando Rooster in Grow a Chicken Fighter?
Hatch the Thunder Egg. It drops the Commando Rooster at 12%, which works out to roughly 8 hatches before you should expect one.
What rarity is the Commando Rooster?
Epic, which is tier 4 of the 10 rarity steps that appear in the drop data.
Is the Commando Rooster worth farming for?
Not on its own. It is the 2nd most likely outcome of the Thunder Egg, so it arrives while you farm that egg for something rarer.
Is the Ordnance Egg worth using for it?
Only when the Thunder Egg is out of reach. The rate there is 7% against 12%, which is about 14 hatches instead of 8.
Does the Commando Rooster lay anything?
Yes — the Ordnance Egg at 70%. Keeping one on the plot is how you produce that egg.
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.