Dinosaur

Sprite

Dinosaurs are not sold. A dinosaur egg goes into the incubator in a Big or Deluxe Coop. Hatching takes 18,000 minutes (11 days, 6 hours, 40 minutes), or 9,000 minutes with Coopmaster. The hatchling is already grown.

• Big Coop
• Mayonnaise machine

Where the first egg comes from

A dinosaur egg is both an artifact and an animal product. The first one can come from an artifact spot in the mountains or the quarry (0.6%), a fishing treasure chest (0.7% to 0.8% after Fishing level 2 and at least one earlier artifact), a Pepper Rex (10%), a prehistoric floor in the Skull Cavern, the crane game in the movie theater, or a gift from a dog at maximum friendship.

The museum wants one egg. Incubating the first egg is what produces the later eggs to donate. A grown, fed dinosaur lays an egg every 7 days.

Sell prices

An unprocessed egg sells for 350g, then 437g, 525g, and 700g. The Treasure Appraisal Guide, a 1.6 book, changes those unprocessed prices to 1,050g, 1,311g, 1,575g, and 2,100g. Mayonnaise stays 800g either way. Rancher prices that mayonnaise at 960g. Artisan prices it at 1,120g.

Without the book, every egg star is at or below 700g, so mayonnaise at 800g pays more. After the book, a normal egg is 1,050g: that beats mayonnaise at 800g, and loses to Artisan mayonnaise at 1,120g. Silver, gold, and iridium eggs after the book are 1,311g, 1,575g, and 2,100g, all above 1,120g. Dinosaur mayonnaise stays at one price, regardless of the star on the egg. A maximum-heart dinosaur sells for 1,300g.

• Artisan profit