Hey all, I don't know if this will work for everyone, but I may have stumbled onto a workaround! Let me detail my steps so everyone can make use of it.
1. You are going to need testing cheats on. To enable TestingCheats, open the console with Left CTRL+Shift+C (press/hold with one fluid motion in that order) or by pressing all four shoulder buttons on console. Once the white box appears, type testingcheats on.
Okay, this is EXACTLY WHAT I DID. Three golden eggs disappeared from my hutch, so I "cheated" and got three golden eggs from the shift menu when you click on the chicken hutch. Let me detail that.
2. WITH TESTING CHEATS ON, SHIFT CLICK on the chicken hutch. You will see a radial menu with a variety of options. Click on hatchable eggs and choose the one that you want. If you want to skip a lot of these steps, click chicken egg ready to hatch! Otherwise, click another option. RECLAIM YOUR GOLDEN AND OBSIDIAN LOST EGGS! LOL!
This will cause the egg to be able to be collected from the hutch immediately. I immediately had my sim collect them.
Here's where it gets fun.
I then placed the eggs in the coop. I always have a fenced in enclosure around my chickens. I put them in LOCKDOWN. NO ONE ALLOWED IN while the eggs were incubating. You can do this by clicking on the gate and locking the gates to EVERYONE.
During incubation, I would go into build mode, move my chickens OUTSIDE the fence, feed and play with them, and then put them back in build mode. I did have to let a Sim in to cater to my cow, but they were under CLOSE SUPERVISION and never came near the hutch. Then, I immediately locked it up tight again.
Now, the eggs, despite being IMMEDIATELY collected and placed, did spoil, BUT THEY STILL HATCHED. At different points they would not show the hatch counter either. BUT THEY HATCHED ALL THE SAME.
You can clean your chicken coop in the radial menu on the SHIFT CLICK on the coop, so it doesn't get dirty.
Using all these tips, I hope this helps!
SimQARobo
