Harlequin cow

This article is about the player-owned farm animal. For the animal in the player-owned farm teaser, see harlequin cow (player-owned farm teaser).

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Harlequin cow
Release								3 September 2018 (Update)
Members								Yes
Race								Cow
Quest								No
Location								Manor Farm
Options								Check, Remove, Examine
Examine								The rarest of breeds, now in three delicious flavours.
Advanced data
NPC ID								25743
Links								MRND25743

Harlequin cows are the shiny breed of cows that may be raised on the player-owned farm. It can be obtained by breeding two cows in the breeding pen, or by trading with another player. As an item it will appear as one of the normal cow variants and will only appear as a harlequin cow when added to a pen in growth stages of adolescent and above.

Even though they are called harlequin cows, a bull can also grow up to be of the harlequin breed if they are shiny.

Harlequin cow

Farming level		49
Pen size		Large
Eats		Flowers, fruits, vegetables
Produce		Cowhide (Always) (1,030) Bucket of milk (Always) (299)
Muck		Manure and green manure
Breeding cycle (max cycle)		5 hours (25 hours)
Breeding success chance		70%
Growth time (from stage to stage)
Child		Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A		72 minutes	2.1 hours	2.7 hours
Growth check Farming XP
Child		Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A		625	1,093.7	1,406.2
Cured disease Farming XP
Child		Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A		31.2	54.6	14
Base sell price in beans
Egg	Child	Adolescent	Adult	Elder
N/A	42	213	181	149
Buyer	Milkshake (cow fancier)
Last spawn(wrong?)	March 16 2025 00:00 UTC ago
Next spawn(wrong?)	March 19 2025 00:00 UTC

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 17 May 2021 (Update):
  • Cows, bulls and chinchompas on the Player Owned Farm will no longer appear without colour if textures are disabled.

• patch 4 February 2019 (Update):
  • Shiny animals now count as a wildcard for trait requests when selling to player owned farm NPC buyers, on top of the existing breed wildcard.

• update 3 September 2018 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Both harlequin cows and bulls share the same model, meaning that both the cow and bull will have udders. However in reality only female cows have udders.
• Upon the release of the Archaeology skill, harlequin cows become highly sought after as a necessary item to complete the Gemini Zodiac step in the Infernal Source Contract Claws mystery which must be completed to access the Ancient Summoning aspect of the skill. The street price of a harlequin cow soared to exorbitant prices in the range of several tens of millions of coins during the first few days following the skills release as a direct result of this requirement. Due to player feedback, Jagex later hotfixed this issue by giving players the option to sacrifice one Strawberry cow, one Vanilla cow, and one Chocolate cow together in place of sacrificing a harlequin cow.
• These may be a reference to the Mexican dessert called tres leches (literally “three milks”), or Neapolitan ice cream.