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Comment by orsmshaman

OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon - Feralas
OOX-22/TN Distress Beacon - Tanaris
OOX-22/HL Distress Beacon - Hinterlands

You get the beacons off random mobs in the area, and then go find the mechanical chicken its attached to. You then have to lead the chicken to the coast so it can return home. After that you go to Booty Bay and talk to Oglethorpe Obnoticus to complete the quest. (the internet could have good guides on these quests) When you've completed all three quests, Oglethorpe gives you the mechanical chicken as a reward.

As mentioned before the chicken is BOE, so can be sold in the AH. He's kind of an unusual pet though, and lots of people ask about him.

Comment by alhorengate

I myself wish I had sold him...he is a tiny little pet and I didn't even think he was active until I was on the beach and could finally see him (his coloration and size camouflage him into the background)...if he could fight like that mechanical greench he would be so much more worth all the headaches of those three escort quests....

Sell him on the AH for the 9G!

Comment by Grans

Links for the all three required quests:

Hinterlands
Tanaris
Feralas

Comment by mommyclz

What I love best about this pet is how it coordinates with my mechanostrider! Gnomes and chickens, ahh, life is good.

Comment by wubbie

They have added new sounds to the mechanical chicken, when you click it, wich i have not heard before, new in patch 2.3?

Comment by Xynthos

correction its BWU

Comment by Neopolis

Not BoP, so give one to your banker alt for extra stylishness.

Comment by btmosier

Sold mine for 50g Argent Dawn server =D

Comment by Zekton

I wish the size had been the same as the mechanical chickens in the 3 quests :/

Comment by Ghanji

Sold this in the Booty Bay Auction house for 250g less than 8 hours ago! /cheer

Comment by deusultimus

Anyone know if theres any possible way to see which one of these you've completed? I'm pretty sure i've done at least 1 or 2 but its been so long ago i just don't know. The pet is going to 500g on the AH, i'd rather just get it myself.

Comment by Cyrios

I paged a Gm for this today. because i had the same problem as Deusultimus. The Game master said which i had done and which i still needed.

Comment by iceeagle

I had completed the quest long ago and probably sold the chicken. After 3.0 I contacted a GM and he confirmed that I did the quest and send me the Mechanical Chicken in mail.

Comment by KittyKat77

Today in Trade someone was asking for an engineer to make one of these.

I whispered and said it's not a crafted item, and he insisted he was a 450 eng and ought to know what engineers can make. I happen to agree, he SHOULD know, but somehow didn't.

I tried to whisper that the chicken is a quest reward.

"This player is ignoring you." Oh well, no good deed goes unpunished!

Comment by whazup

This sells for about 1000g on my server ^^

Comment by blacktauren

Ticket was made 19:30 and 20 minutes later i got the answere that would save me alot of trouble!

: Hello Blacktauren, my name is Game Master Czejsenn. Sorry to interrupt your play, do you have a moment to discuss your ticket regarding the Mechanical Chicken quests?
: yes indeed :)
: Hello there, You should concentrate your efforts in chicked hunting in the Hinterlands Blacktauren.
: ah. awesome. i thought that was the one i missed. just been there
: that is the only one i need?
: The other places would be a waste of time.
: Good luck with your hunt! Is there anything else I can help you with today?
: :) thanks alot. made my life alot easier!
: that was all
: happy new year
: Thank-you. Farewell then Blacktauren. May your adventures be glorious and your name become legend!

Comment by Acetylcholine

For those on the US servers, the Blues at the Customer Service forums will tell you which Beacon you still need to find. Look for threads such as this one.

On another note, I just AHed and sold mine for 850g. :D

Comment by Awden

Just so that people know on EU servers, I followed Acetylcholine's link to the US forums and then set up a similar post on the EU forums.

The response was not to give you which quests you still needed, but to confirm that you can ask an In-Game GM for the information. They can only tell you which of the three you have completed.

This also confirms that blacktauren's help from a GM wasn't a fluke! :)

Here is the post.

Here's the Blizz reply....

Hi there Awden,

I see no reason why we cannot give this information to you. For assistance with your query please submit a ticket to us in-game, and a member of the Game Master team should be able to look this up for you and give you an answer.

Issuntril
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Game Master / / Customer Service Forum Representative - EN

"I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order."

Comment by Zalina

For those of you who are thinking: "Well crap! I can't remember what quests I did. Hell its been so long and its going to suck if i have to farm for hours on end to find out if i did it or not!"

Alas, just make a death knight and go do the quests or take one of your alts! its boe so you dont have to worry about not being able to transfer it. Death knight would be the easiest way to go if you dont have any other high level alts.

Comment by khreative

You can ask a GM if you have completed the quests. After I gave the GM the exact quest names, he told me I had indeed not completed any of them. I did over 20 full ZF clears, after no luck I moved on to Hinterlands. Got that one in about 3 clears of Jintha'alor and then spent 5 hours farming gnolls in Feralas with no drop.

Eventually I decided to stop and just go turn in the one I did complete at Booty Bay. Npc promptly gave me my mech chicken.... so it turns out I did do all but one. So I guess moral of the story, you can ask a GM, but they might not tell the truth ^_^

So I suppose if you aren't sure which you have completed, and just aren't getting a drop move to another zone or turn in whatever one(s) you already have. Just to be sure.

Comment by FlavioGomes

You asked the GM where were the last quest you needed?
They arent supposed to give you game hints <_< (I heard)

yay Off-topic

Comment by Xenial2themax

For anyone out there on alleria, the buyout price has stabilized at 2000g, with a 1000g bid. I have sold two mech chickens like this.

Comment by Takk

Anyone know if it's a repeatable farm?
I'd like to get one to use for the achievement progress but would like to get another to sell on the AH ..

Comment by stillnotking

Since the vanity pet achievements came out, these things sell for 1500g+ at the auction house. Which isn't unreasonable, considering you have to have a level 45+ character and farm three distress beacons in order to get one (the escort quests themselves are pretty easy).

Here's how to complete the chicken escort quests without dying and/or failing. I have done these on three characters now, which is why I said they are easy, but the first few times I did one it was a pain. First thing you need to know is that the chicken moves FAST, only slightly slower than player run speed, and if he gets far enough in front of you, he will despawn and you will fail. Second thing is that the chicken usually does NOT turn around to help you if you get attacked, unlike typical escort NPCs. The net effect of these issues is that you must always let the chicken aggro the enemies first, whether they are wandering monsters or spawned ambushers, otherwise it will run off into the sunset and leave you to deal with the mobs. Since the chicken is kinda wimpy, ideally you should pull aggro off it right away (though it can tank one mob for a while if you need to drink or bandage). Once you see it emote something like "initializing attack plan beta", start killing. AOEs are very helpful but not needed if you switch targets on the 3+ mob ambush spawns. The hardest part of all these quests is the final gnoll ambush in Feralas, which happens on the road down to the docks. One of the mobs is a shaman and must be killed IMMEDIATELY, before he starts healing the others. Make sure you are at close to full health/mana before the ambush occurs, otherwise it can be quite difficult. Stunning abilities are very helpful here.

As far as farming the beacons, in my experience the drop rate is completely random. Sometimes it comes from your first few kills in a zone, sometimes you can finish every single quest and still not get it. My recommendation is to make sure you plan on questing in these zones as you level up -- many players skip the Hinterlands, especially on the Horde side, because it's hard to get to and a long way from any cities (not to mention that the quest hub is in the far southeast corner of the zone, at the bottom of a cliff -- bleh). But the Hinterlands is worth doing just to finish this quest. 1500 gold at level 45-50ish is nothing to sneeze at. Save it for your epic flyer!

Comment by glurpie

The *easiest* way to escort the chicken for all of the quests is to run slightly ahead of the chicken (i'd say about 20-30yds), and picking up any mob that you think is close enough for the chicken (level 42) to aggro. You don't even have to dismount--just run left and right ahead of the chicken and the mobs will eventually go away since the chicken runs so fast. This way, the chicken doesn't stop to fight the mobs (it didn't get initial aggro), and as long as you don't get dazed, you won't either.

Comment by marisam

i bought it for 300 gold

Comment by Gmac030

These go for 3.5k on my server atm (crushridge) in the AH. Terrible if you want to buy one, fantastic if you want to sell one. I dont know how long this price will stick tho =(

Comment by Kaninzor

Did this quest on my pally in lvl 50, took the chicken, "learned it" and didnt think more of that. Some time after that when i was 80 i was looking by the action house to check out the pets and that was when i saw that #%¤"ing chicken again! D: Around 4000g bid 5000g buyout. Think i actually cried there... Dont know if the guy got the chicken sold but its not the funniest thing to see.
But at other hand, its kinda cool to have a pet like that ;) so im not complaining, but i think ive chosen the 5k instead...

Comment by gotsocks1018

I assume blizz hopes that the price goes down, as you can simply make a DK get it to the prerequisite 58 to join the rest of the world, get the beacons, get the chicken and sell it, then delete your DK and make another. A few hours total of doing all the DK starter quests and getting the beacons for what is being reported here as upwards of 2k g+

Comment by flinkder

It seems that blizzard is trying to down its price cose 2 days before wowhead's buyout price was 500g and now is 5s.

Comment by Kratfrotz

So I recently noticed that Mechanical Chicken wasn't in my collection.
I wrote a ticket to a GM asking which quests I completed. He confirmed that I did all beacon quests as well as "An OOX of Your Own" long time ago.
Then I told him that the chicken was missing. He said that I probably sold or destroyed it and he only advised me to either buy one or get one on another character.
So I wrote another ticket, hoping for a better solution - this time suggesting from the start that it must be some kind of bug. This time a different GM told me right away that he'll reimburse me the chicken. So next thing I did was pick up the chicken from the mailbox :)

Comment by Kratfrotz

Comment by Sounder

I just completed the third OOX escort quest and Oglethorpe didn't offer me "An OOX of your own" to get this pet. I opened a ticket and a GM confirmed that I'd done all three escorts. He then found that it was a "known issue", identified recently, that players completing the three escorts aren't being offered the final quest. A fix is expected Soon.

Comment by Yutrippin

So I had fully completed one of the quests (the one in Feralas). I had started the one in Tanaris but failed. Now, I try to go back to re-do it, but I don't see it anywhere (even when turning on the low quest tracking). Is it a one-time chance thing? Or...am I just missing something?

edit: Put in a ticket about it. GM informed me that: 1) I had, in fact, completed the Feralas quest; 2) There was no reason why the Tanaris quest didn't turn up, that maybe someone had just completed it or was currently on it; and 3) That I had not yet completed the one in Hinterlands.

I went back and sure enough, I was able to find the one in Tanaris using my low quest tracker.

Farmed for over an hour all over Hinterlands and still no drop of the beacon. Perhaps I will be going back sometime soon to try again, it just annoyed me to no end.

Comment by Tyon

I just sold this pet for 2100g.
/cheer

//Tryon of Hellscream (EU)

Comment by dannyboy1100

sold one for 1250g once so Im gonna farm them on DKs and sell them

Comment by Edymnion

The Tanaris chicken does actually get up and leave it's original location, and does not respawn unless destroyed or the quest is finished. Seeing as how the Tanaris chicken is the longest of the three escorts, you can be waiting quite a while if someone activated it just before you got there.

Comment by sexysweetfairy

Wow so on my search for the hinterlands Beacon one of the Mangly Silvermanes dropped Fiery War Axe (world drop) and my beacon :O! I was in sooo much shock lol

Comment by Cynik

Does the chicken come in the mail? My girlfriend says she did the quest but never got the chicken. Maybe she destroyed it or something. She opened a ticket to 2 GMs and they said they can't give quest hints when she asked which quests she had done.

Comment by Noromis

A robot chicken...

Comment by Wildhorn

If you consider the droprate of each beacon to be 1%, it gives a 1/1000000 (yes a million) to get this pet. Make it one of the rarest drop to get.

Comment by neef

With the newly added ability to query the server about completed quests, I'm curious.

I remember doing these quests a long time ago (about March 2005). But I can not remember on which toons and whether or not I completed them.

Anyone know of an Addon or a Command I can input that will let me know if I've completed them?

Comment by Beatriz

My main had this already, so when my next alt who I wasn't too serious about managed to acquire all the beacons without really trying, I thought I'd try to sell it . . . be prepared to get jumped by people in Trade Chat who want to tell people "Don't buy that, it's a quest reward, and 500g is a rip off." The auction house, especially the neutral one, is probably the most hassle free way to unload this pet. I find pets go for considerably more on the Neutral Auction House than in my faction only one, possibly because people all too readily assume that the pet they see on there is from an Alliance Friendly Vendor and don't bother researching where it really comes from before they buy.

That said, considering you are selling off a character's chance to have the pet, plus the time running back and forth from all three zones to Booty Bay, plus how annoying escort quests are in general (MOVE FASTER, CHICKEN!), I'd say I put at least 500g of work into that stupid chicken, and that's assuming you got lucky and the things just dropped as opposed to actually putting in farm time.

Comment by Gaarrrry

My friend, his Shaman's name is Serie with an accent over the first e, just should one for 1449g on Uldaman US server.

Sell.

Them.

Comment by Beatriz

Caused my own moral dilemma when I attempted to get this pet. My main had bought one off the auction house ages ago for about 200g when they first introduced the pet as a learned skill rather than something that took up bag space feature. When I realized the joy of unlimited pet space, I went and bought every reasonably priced pet on the auction house . . . I just do things like that.

Anyway, so my mage had it from an auction house purchase. Later my pally alt farmed one out and I sold it for about 500g on the auction house.

I had it in my head that I had already completed the Feralas escort quest on my mage, simply because I spent so much time there goofing off while working on my Loremaster achievement, so when I picked up the Hinterlands Beacon I assumed I needed to farm in Tanaris to get one more chicken for some easy gold. I was killing Tanaris pirates and wastewanders for Gadgetzan rep anyway, so I waited expectantly for my beacon to drop. And waited. And waited. After a few days, I thought, what could it hurt? I put in a ticket asking if I had already completed the Tanaris quest.

I was offline when the GM responded, so I didn't get to discuss it with the GM, but the response was that I had completed the Tanaris quest but not the Feralas one. "I cannot give you the pet on this character, but I noticed you completed it on your other character. . ."

Long story short, he sent me the mechanical chicken on my paladin. After some hesitation, I decided sending it back would be more trouble than it was worth, but I couldn't bring myself to sell it as intended, so I learned it on my paladin. Maybe I should've deleted it . . . oh well.

Comment by Chungking

Sells for 1500-2500g on my server

Comment by Titansteelsword

You can't truly calculate the real drop rate of the beacons because once you drop it the first time and either; a. have it in your inventory or; b. have completed the quest... the beacon will not drop again for you for the remainder of the time you spend in that particular zone.

Not sure why that quote got marked down, so I will quote it again in case it gets purged. Please don't mark down information that is correct. If you do not know, please do not vote.

OOX-09/HL (HL = HinterLands)
OOX-17/TN (TN = TaNaris)
OOX-22/FE (FE = FEralas)

Check it out, they are unique (links provided for easy mouse-over access). Therefore you CAN NOT have more than one in your inventory (and they are BoP so you cannot put them in the guild bank) so if you have one, you can not get another one.

They do drop fairly often if you have not completed the quest (or toss them out), so if you have trouble finding one, double check that you didn't stash it in the bank while you were leveling in the 40s, or that you didn't finish it and forget (there are addons to check what quests you have and have not done yet, Everyquest for example)

Edit: speeling

Comment by valfader

The best thing about this item is that you can send it to your main.

My main was currently doing the Insane in the Membrane-chain, and was hostile with Booty Bay, so I couldn't turn it in at the time.
So in order to get my final pet for Lil' Game Hunter I had to do it on an alt and send it to my main.

Comment by sanchos

Just found this on the AH on Uldum for 7G! Of course I could have resold it but like all avid pet collectors it's going in my collection!

Comment by Tyyppi

You can check which OOX-quests you have done with a macro, so you don't have to bother GM's

First type this in-game:

/run f,z=CreateFrame('frame'),{='The Hinterlands',='Tanaris',='Feralas'};f:RegisterEvent('QUEST_QUERY_COMPLETE')

Then, type this

/run local s,t;f:SetScript('OnEvent',function() t=GetQuestsCompleted();for c,v in pairs(z) do if t then s='' else s=' not' end print('You have'..s,'found OOX in',v) end end);QueryQuestsCompleted()

No need to actually type them, you can use Control+C to copy and Control+V to paste in-game. This should tell you in your chat window which quests you're missing and which you've completed

Credit to Vóódóómán:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816891571&postId=138154482458&sid=1#2

edit: corrected the macro like odbastard suggested below

Comment by Cadenbrie

I was just thinking, will this guy still be around in Cata?

I'm just missing the one in Feralas and God knows if it'll ever drop for me before Cata.

I hope so, I want a Robot Chicken. <_<

Comment by odbastard

As mentioned before, in the second command it should be "SetScript" instead of "Setscript". I couldn't get this to work until I capitalized the second S. For convenience's sake, the correct commands:

First:
/run f,z=CreateFrame('frame'),{='The Hinterlands',='Tanaris',='Feralas'};f:RegisterEvent('QUEST_QUERY_COMPLETE')

Second:
/run local s,t;f:SetScript('OnEvent',function() t=GetQuestsCompleted();for c,v in pairs(z) do if t then s='' else s=' not' end print('You have'..s,'found OOX in',v) end end);QueryQuestsCompleted()

Comment by odbastard

In case you couldn't get this to work, like me, submitting a post to Wowhead changes the command. Simply capitalize the second "s" in "Setscript" and it will work.

/run local s,t;f:SetScript('OnEvent',function() t=GetQuestsCompleted();for c,v in pairs(z) do if t then s='' else s=' not' end print('You have'..s,'found OOX in',v) end end);QueryQuestsCompleted()

Comment by TNDRNSS

I don't know if it's kosher to post this, but you can still make a bit of gold off of this little guy. I just sold it for 2375g on Ysondre, having just started playing a couple of month ago this makes me happy :)

Comment by Aveliia

People are trying to sell them on my server for 1800-3000g. I know i did the quests i just need to go see if i can talk to the person who gives the chicken. Is there a way to tell if i have done all 3 of the quests? im guessing no, ill have to ride around if i didnt do them all.

Comment by monkeynut

The post four above tells you how to check if you have done the quests.

Comment by Chooserbeggar

It CAN drop, it CANNOT be looted. It does show in the loot box, it just cannot be looted being unique. I had 3 drop during my questing in the zone, but was only able to loot the first one, so the drop rate is fairly accurate, as far as registering. Don't believe me? Go try it. There was a reason the post was marked down.

Comment by Myshella

I can confirm that you can still get the OOX beacon from Tanaris and Feralas and complete the quests. I've been killing in Hinterlands for about 3 hours now and no beacon has dropped. I'll update if I get lucky. :)

Comment by Myshella

Well folks, It's official. You can STILL get the mechanical chicken post-cata patch.
I had the Beacon drop for me in Tanaris/Feralas and Hinterlands. Hinterlands took about 3 hours though until I went to the Jade Oozes and got it the first kill.
I just flew to Booty Bay and turned them in for my very own Mechanical Chicken. :)

Comment by Cyndy

You are doing something terribly wrong. You do NOT need the quest item to drop, you can just go directly to the location of the robot and start the quest.

Comment by Moonflower

Whew, thank goodness. I did get my last beacon (Feralas) and finished the quest pre-4.0.3, but unfortunately my BB rep was at hated and I couldn't turn it in. When I logged in after the patch, my quest was gone and I freaked out a little, but I guess it's just due to a quest reset or something.

Comment by doughy

Is there confirmation that it is still in Cata? I mean I have been after the Tanaris beacon for a long time. I know i did both Feralas and Hinterlands. The Tanaris one dropped today. I finish it. Turn it in and no chicken of my own. Really pissed me off. Maybe all the quests are reset since the new content and loremaster was changed.

Well i still have to do Dire Maul for Classic Dungeonmaster, if Feralas beacon drops, ill update and assume they have all been reset.

Comment by mortichi

Apparently this quest can be RE-completed, should you have done it prior to the shattering, as i finally finished this quest a while ago for my chicken,resisting temptation to sell it, but while questing in feralas post shattering, i found yet another distress beacon and was able to pick up said quest o-o i will edit if i find that after doing the other 2, i can still acquire said chicken again or not.

Comment by bigblackbiz

I've done this half a dozen times now. Sells for about 1000g, give or take 500. They'll be even rarer now since leveling is so fast, there's really no need to quest in all three of these zones as you level. You have to make a special effort to fly around and get it, and it can take hours of grinding if you're unlucky.

Tenaris seems to be the worst. Running through ZF usually does the trick ... usually. Hinterlands it drops pretty easy from a lot of different mobs, I did owlbeasts and that worked out. In Feralas it drops like crazy from the Yeti (111% drop rate on wowhead, not sure how that is possible?)

If you keep it, it is a super cool pet. The squeaky chicken squaks are awesome. Good luck!

Comment by Kaiwano

If you did the quests for this precata, only the feralas one will have reset.

This is a chance for every pre 2.4 character to obtain a chicken without bying it for loads of money at the AH.

(I'm sure it wasn't only me who destroyed alot of vanity pets way back when they took up inventory space)

Comment by tygt

I was just cruising around in Vash'jir with my Mechanical Chicken out, and I realized that it occasionally shows an exhaust trail - looks like a jet trail - when catching up to me. Can't say I've ever seen that before.

Comment by MonmonmoOfExodar

Hmm, reference to the parody show 'Robot Chicken'?

Comment by Styckeey

Has anyone gotten this out of the Satchel that you get for completing a dungeon as healer or tank, end-game?

Comment by sTyLnK

I had to redo the Feralas beacon, finished it and handed in the quest at Booty Bay. I did not get the follow up quest 'An OOX of Your Own' which gives you the chicken pet. I put in a ticket and the GM told me that it's bugged and the quest should have shown up. So they mailed me my mechanical chicken.

But this was a little strange. They then said for me to learn the pet because they didn't want to get fired for me putting it on the AH. Of course that part was a joke, but he said I still had to learn it. If not he would take it away. So I learned it. Asked if it was possible to get the beacons again and get the chicken and he said no.

So take it for what it's worth. It is now a one time quest. At least that's what I was told.

Comment by deepwinter7

From Diamora on the US forums comes this handy set of code to check which OOX one is missing:

/run f,z=CreateFrame('frame'),{='The Hinterlands',='Tanaris',='Feralas'};f:RegisterEvent('QUEST_QUERY_COMPLETE')

/run local s,t;f:SetScript('OnEvent',function() t=GetQuestsCompleted();for c,v in pairs(z) do if t then s='' else s=' not' end print('You have'..s,'found OOX in',v) end end);QueryQuestsCompleted()
Be sure to enter both lines. A dialogue will appear in your chatbox stating which zone(s) you still need to find distress beacons.

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1083318508#4

Comment by Buckmoney

I WANNA HUG IT O_O

Comment by MervesStore

It's funny that a quest reward can be worth so much. This EASILY sells for 5K on my server. I posted one for 5,500 and it sold in 13 minutes. These are fast fast fast sellers. So if you complete the quest and don't want to learn the pet then you can most definitely make a pretty penny on it.

Comment by Poldaran

Reading comments on here, I thought to myself, "Surely this must be mistaken. Surely there's no way you can sell these things for so much.". However, as I'm in the process of leveling a new character on a server that I have no high levels on, I also figured that it couldn't hurt to quest in the areas that drop the beacons and see what happens.

Feralas and Tanaris both dropped their beacons for me during regular questing. Hinterlands, I had to farm a bit, perhaps an hour or so grinding turtles. But since I'm also a skinner, I made a tidy profit on that while farming.

I listed my chicken for 4500g. I didn't expect it to sell at nearly that price(perhaps 2000g, but 4500g? not a chance!), but I figured it was worth a shot. When I woke up and checked my auctions, the AH listed it as having just sold.

I'm starting to think maybe I lowballed myself there.

Comment by shroxari

I've seen this sucker go for as much as 12k in the Auction House...he's still sitting in my rogue's bag as I debate whether I should keep him or sell him.

Comment by tobindax

The scripts circulating in wowhead right now are currently bugged. The Feralas portion is reported uncompleted when it's not.

Comment by sandyra

Want a chicken for vanity or big profits? You need to start by grabbing each of these:

OOX-09/HL Distress Beacon from The Hinterlands (Personal stats: Killed some stalkers, some trolls, some owlbeasts (about 20 all told)... Then killed my first ooze at Skulk Rock, and it dropped)
OOX-17/TN Distress Beacon from Tanaris (Personal stats: Went into Zul'Farrak like all other posters recommend, killed some twenty or thirty trolls and scarabs, and it dropped from one of the troll corpses)
OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon from Feralas (Personal stats: As recommended by many other posters, Feral Scar Yetis - dropped on my first kill)

Only available if you have not already completed the quest.
Yes these still drop in Mists of Pandaria.
Yes it can drop off ANY mob in the respective zone, however OOX-22/FE Distress Beacon has the highest drop rate from Feral Scar Yeti IF you haven't already done the quest.
It WILL eventually drop - some days RNG is your best friend, other days you want to repeatedly punch a kitten (or other obscenely fluffy creature) just to illustrate how cruel the universe can be.
The command to check if you have completed ANY of the distress beacon quests is here (special thanks to MrsSushi for locating the updated version of this as of 5.0.3):

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h" ,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

You will see lines of dialogue that look like this:
Tanaris
#1 Complete
#2 Complete
Hinterlands
#1 Complete
#2 Complete
Feralas
#1 Incomplete
#2 Incomplete
After completing all three escorts, you can then acquire the quest An OOX of Your Own and get your Mechanical Chicken.

Happy hunting!

Comment by badweather

wrong item

Comment by Znuff

Make DK, finish starting quests in ~1 hour, go do the beacons in all 3 places, go back to booty bay, mail chicken on another char, delete DK, rinse and repeat!

Comment by mcookrowe

I hate to sound like a nooberton but is this repeatable? I want to sell mine in the AH but am afraid i wont be able to get another for my collection.

Comment by asherkobin

Can someone explain what cool things this pet does? So far I've read that it has some unique sound and that it can "interact" with other mechanical pets. What does that mean?

There are other mechanical chickens -- Robo-Chick -- in game as NPCs that you can kill in Azshara. Do these behave like the pet?

Comment by Guy19

To get this small (BoU) mech chicken, you need to get three rare drops in different areas, then do the correspending quests, then travel again to Booty Bay. Finally you get an Oox of your own, which can be sold to other players. Only 1 can be obtained per toon. Taking all this into account, you should be able to get more than wowhead and even players suggest.

Comment by Feanyx

Some things to know for you pet lover's out there. If you are like me and you didn't do these quests when you were lower level there are some things to pay attention to since nobody has apparently done their homework. After a week and a half of research and working the quest lines i finally figured it out so i hope this post save you some time.

These items still drop for lower level characters from what i have seen, but for two of these if you are level 85 you can just pick up the quests directly from the mechanical chicken.

00X-17/TN - can be found in Tanaris in the mountains about 61, 63 for the cords put your low level quest tracker on and you will find him.

00X-22/FE - is in the cave with the Yeti so you have to run inside and about mid way through the cave it opens up and he is laying on the ground once again make sure you turn your low level qeust tracker on.

00X-09/HL - is still on the hill in hinterlands but this piece of the quest actually has to be farmed for the beacon i killed oozes and a bunch of other mobs for several days and with no luck, i finally went to Jintha'alor and killed the trolls up there for about 15 min and the beacon dropped for the quest line cords are 61, 73.

All quests must be completed and turned into booty bay in order for you to get your pet. Happy collecting everyone.

Comment by xvalusx

This pet will not fly around with you when mounted, unlike Feline Familiar. Which is weird since the mechanical chicken activates it's rocket boosters and flies to Booty Bay after the each escort quest is complete.

Comment by sonicgasp

Confirmed that all three beacons required for this quest reward still drop as of 5.0.4.

Comment by Vlad

If you got lost and not sure what you did, or have to do, use this macro to figure out where you currently stand:
/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

Comment by RiftWalker

http://stormspire.net/consortium-quality-guides/2868-guide-mechanical-chicken-farming-16-000g-2-hours-work.html

Thats everything you need to know :D

Comment by eahlmh

As of Today March 4, 2013, the pet says it is no longer tradeable. I completed all the quests with someone who did not have it completed, they could not get another chicken. ( I have one already). Anyone else notice this?

I still see them in the AH, can you trade them if they are unlearned only? Gonna go do this quest chain with other toons to see if they don't get a second one also. will report back.

Comment by lilich

not tradeable anymore!

Comment by lunamoonraker

Just completed the final quest and received the 'Mechanical Chicken' I was able to mail to to another toon on my account. I was also able to trade it with the same toon and also to a character on another account (not linked) So it is tradeable.

Once learnt, the pet is not cageable however.

The Quick Facts above mention it is Account-wide however it does not mention this in the Tooltip.

Comment by Hamnier

Older post but felt the need to comment. CHECK YOUR ALTS! After farming for a few hours on my main, a warrior, I decided that a mage, with a bunch of instant cast spells, would be better for farming so many low lvl mobs. So I switched toons and low and behold the mage had all 3 of the beacons found already and never escorted. I mainly attribute this to the fact that i was trying to gather these quest prior to all toons having all pets. So, run the macro

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z)for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h" ,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

on all toons and make sure one isnt ahead of the other.

Comment by corners

This is a very valuable pet on the auction house.It can be a real pain in the butt sometimes getting any one beacon because of it being a zone drop.

Worth it in the end, and you get a ton of experience from turning the quests in.

Comment by CWR03

A warning, if you farm this to sell on the AH, DO NOT LEARN IT. It cannot be caged and traded or sold.

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