Chicken



There are a couple of ways to get a chicken in the game.

Ancona Chicken
The Ancona Chicken can be purchased from Magus Tirth at the Mirage Raceway in the Shimmering Flats for.

Prairie Chicken for Alliance
This sounds like a hoax, but does actually work. (My chicken has been happily shuffling behind me for weeks.) Every chicken you see in the game has a small chance of offering you a quest when you /chicken in front of it. Some rumors suggest that each time you /chicken in front of a chicken, it (internally) increases your reputation with the chicken briefly, and when it gets high enough, you can get the quest. Whether this is true, or if it is just random chance, if you cluck at a chicken enough, it will change from neutral (yellow) to friendly (green). When it does, talk to it to get the quest. Note that the exclamation mark does not show up above the chicken. Also, once the chicken has been clucked at enough, anyone nearby that chicken can get the quest for the brief time that the chicken is friendly (I know this because a friend of mine was clucking at the chicken, yet I noticed that I also got the "Prairie Chicken looks up at you quizzically. Maybe you should inspect it?" message and was able to talk to the chicken and accept the quest.)

For your own sanity, it is strongly suggested you write a macro that does /chicken over and over to activate this quest.

The quest requires you to get Special Chicken Feed, which you can by from Farmer Saldean in Westfall. Once you do, you can /cheer at any chicken (there are some near the farmer) and give the chicken the feed. The chicken will then lay a Chicken Egg, which you can take to summon a chicken at will.

Prairie Chicken for Horde
The quest previously mentioned only works for Alliance; however, comments on Thottbot suggest that Alliance is only needed to interact with the chicken, but anyone can pick up the egg once it has been summoned. (This would suggest, however, that there might be a similar setup for some Horde critter?)