The Eggening

Announcement #74 by circlejourney • 1 April 2026

The Eggening

egg emoji When you visit your coop this morning, you notice that something's different. It is unusually...quiet. Not a single cluck or pecking noise. When you finally poke your head inside to check on your chickens, you're startled to notice...all your chickens have all turned into eggs! egg emoji

egg emoji But it's not just your chickens: every chicken on the site has turned into an egg. Eggs in every colour and pattern! The chickens in Clucky Clicker are eggs! The random chicken in Chickrew is an egg! Even mum is an egg!? egg emoji

egg emoji Slowly, you lift your head to the navigation bar and realise that the website is no longer called ChickenPet. No, it has seemingly changed into EggPet overnight. egg emoji

egg emoji Peering at the calendar, you then notice it is the 1st of April in UCT. It seems like on this day, perched perfectly between the mods' birthdays, Transgender Day of Visibility, and Easter Sunday...the Eggening has occurred. egg emoji

egg emoji This will simplify Easter preparations, you suppose. (That is, if you celebrate Easter.) egg emoji

20 comments

bee
2 months ago Reply

Entire site is borbs, best April Fools!

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Today was genuinely the first day after my account activation that I got to play ChickenPet... very glad to see I'm not misremembering every chicken being bloated! surprise emoji The change really works nicely with some chickens. The chicks are very cute.

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nuttfloof
2 months ago Reply

I forgot that April's fools existed so I got really concerned for a sec HAHA

I love this though!! egg egg emoji

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matcha
2 months ago Reply

Eggpet lol I love it

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mantrap
2 months ago Reply

They look so silly :0 !! I wish some of my chickens looked like this all the time egg emojiegg emoji

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Nina
2 months ago Reply

I want them to stay like this!! cry emojiRed heart tada emojiThe transgender flag, with blue, pink, and white stripes

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Mortician
2 months ago Reply

egg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiEGGegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emoji

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BlipiTheDog
2 months ago Reply

Big egg egg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emoji

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Mothylaced
2 months ago Reply

PLEASE let us be able to toggle this on somehow after April Fools .....

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Lilukalani
2 months ago Reply

I need this to be a modulator or splicer or something because omg they look HILARIOUS smile emoji egg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emoji

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Bugznbees
2 months ago Reply

egg emoji! emojiaa emoji what an egg-celent surprise to wake up to!

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venula
2 months ago Reply

E g g

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Aurkan
2 months ago Reply

egg emojiegg emoji I discovered the eggening by hatching one of my puffball mushroom chickens and stared at the screen for a few seconds like "This looks different.. what did I just do? ... It works really well for this breed of chicken, though..." and THEN noticed the hatchdate lol smile emojiegg emojiegg emoji
(chickenpet is a day ahead for me and I keep forgetting april fools day exists so that added to the surprise, this is brilliant)

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cicada
2 months ago Reply

egg emoji! emoji? emoji

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egg emojiegg emojiegg emoji

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corvidRouxster
2 months ago Reply

egg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emoji Went to check and only saw.......... egg... splendid (/silly)

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Pielolz
2 months ago Reply

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Daisy
2 months ago Reply

egg emoji This is so amazing and cute!! XD

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Doodle_Creator
2 months ago Reply

this is horrible they all look so stupid (/silly /vpos ) egg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojiegg emojitada emojitada emojitada emoji

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Lina
2 months ago Reply

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