The event is not available for New Harvest (online) players.
The first thing you need to remember is that this event is primarily not for you. It is for Big Farm to generate income. Ads, subscriptions and packages. The supply chain is slow, ties up your fields, lowers your animal production which encourages you to "gold off" or buy feed packages. The market is a key element in upgrading, so not every contract will have baskets because they want you watching ads and tempted to buy a faster truck subscription. The most prolific spenders have lots of chickens, no/few pigs and are dairy heavy (for their co-ops). It is no surprise that chickens (which are almost as Easter as bunnies) were excluded.
Why is it hard? Because if it was easy you wouldn't spend money.
Why do they not tell us the end day? Because the spenders won't use gold to finish eggs quickly if they know they can finish it naturally.
Now that the rant is out of the way...
Grow daisies in your fields
Mill into Easter Feed
Feed it to your pigs (and cows) to get ribbons.
Put ribbons and eggs into your bunny factory (an upgradeable decoration) to get Easter Eggs
Complete task in the blue book - collecting/producing Easter Eggs
Collect baskets from some market contracts
Upgrade the bunny factory.
Runs till April 23rd at 9am EDT or 13:00 UTC
You want to finish the 1550 egg task by the evening of April 14th to be pacing to finish. The good news is that you can run 850 eggs per day and still sleep 8 hours at night, so from level 9 to 10 can be finished in 6 days if needed.
There are more egg collection tasks, and the key reward is cash. The equivalent value of an egg starts at $350 to sell and keeps going up. (4th task is almost 700 per egg) Keep it running.
1000 Easter Eggs can be used to buy a present under the shopping cart tab, similar to Christmas.
As of Wed evening, the factory can only produce 42 Easter Eggs per hour and will be the hold up. With 2 (special) pigs, you only need 40 bags of feed per hour which can be done on 2-4 fields.
The factory increases the number of eggs you can make with each upgrade, but the time remains the same per egg. (5 for level 1 in 7 mins, 10 for level 2 in 14 mins, 20 for level 2 in 28 mins.)
The decoration is not as good as an upgradable theme deco, but falls in line with the other seasonal deco (nurseries). Think of it as a 107 happiness 6x6 decoration.
The best stables (level doesn't matter) - given in ribbons per 10 feed - are:
Free range and tropical pig - 14
Free range, tropical and candy cow - 11.6
Regular pig - 11.5
Regular cow - 9.7
Like any update, this one was filled with errors. All have been fixed.
If you work on the assumption that the blue book wants 3 pigs and 4 cows on your farm, and every task is out of reach to encourage spending... 3 pigs and 4 cows will not be enough to get your factory to level 10.
The factory is locked to 42 eggs per hour, so the real question will be if there are enough hours in the day to complete the tasks.
Thank you to László and Kate for thier graphical skills.
Happy Farming.
A day and a half to a 2 days should be plenty 😉 3 days should help you get some of the extra rewards after its upgraded ;) exp cash instant feeds etc ;)