So i was playing around with setting up a NG+ save file on xbox 360 and needed to get me 6 gold eggs. Found some interesting things that i thought i would share for the benefit of newer runners. Also to see if anyone had anything to add. So here are some things i believe to be of use:

1. There are around 6 or 7 chickens in the farm area. If you stand just in front of the "well" and face the area, there are 2 near the cannine on your left and 4 or 5 on your right. All chickens seem to be capable of laying, but it appears that more often than not, the 2 will lay eggs and then 2 of the bigger group will also lay. Hence most of the time you will only get four eggs dropping per visit.

2. Moving too fast, shooting etc disturbs the chickens and seems to delay their laying time. It seems that if you stand near the well from the moment you re-enter from the village, there is a strong chance of getting 3 to 4 quick lays. Hence the quickest method for farming seems to be come in, wait for 3 or 4 eggs, then exit and re-enter.

3. The timers per chicken seem to mostly be quite short. Quite often an egg will be laid before i stand still and fairly regularly 2 or 3 will be done with a few seconds of waiting. So mostly it seems best not to wait very long once the 3rd egg is laid. Maybe 30 seconds max.

So all in all i think keeping all this in mind, farming for gold eggs for a speedrun inventory could be done within an hour or two easy enough. That is unless you want like 50 gold eggs.

:D Mud

I personally did #2 before we learned how to hack our steam inventory. Waiting for eggs to appear was way too boring.

Hehe yeah thanks AAD. Already got 6 from farming in the end and one from the snake at the start of the castle. Figured i would eventually go with 5 like your inventory in your most recent youtube runs, but for beginning im gonna carry a few more and keep a save before 5-4 to eventually change.