Which Animal Buildings do my Animals go in to be Harvested?
Working Animals that produce products need to be in the appropriate animal shed so that they can be Harvested.
You can have a few more animals out on farms if your shed is full,
but please remember that working animals not in their buildings can make a farm very slow or impossible to load!! This can cause you or a worker you hire, problems with being able to loading that farm!
Before working for or visiting others it can help if you
remove the checkmark for Show Animals when not at Home, in your preferences,
BUT this will not help you as the farm owner on your own farm, as only you can take care of your animals and you will need be able to see all of them to be able to move, store, sell or delete them.
There are several types of Animal Buildings. Some animal buildings are ONLY decorative!
Make sure that when you buy any animals or animal buildings that you are buying the correct ones!
You can have one of the following animal buildings per farm. The animal shed can be
either the regular version costing coins, that can hold 300 of each of the animals that can be stored in it
OR you can have the Super version of the animal shed costing Farm Cash, that can hold 600 of each of the animals that can be stored in it.
Not every animal building has a super version.
- 1 Chicken Coop OR 1 Super Chicken Coop.
AND
- 1 Wool Shed OR 1 Super Wool Shed.
AND
- 1 Dairy Shed OR 1 Super Dairy Shed.
AND
- 1 Pigsty.
AND
- 1 Rabbit hutch OR 1 Super Rabbit Hutch.
AND
- 1 Stables - You can use ONE of the Stables OR the Super Stables. All of them cost Farm Cash to buy.
The Stables costing 25 FC or 28 FC have always cost Farm Cash. The only difference between those two Stables is the look of them. Many years ago the Stables were only decorations before they were converted to be able to harvest horse hair. The Super Stables can hold more horses.
You do not have to put animal buildings on every farm, if you do not need that many animal products. You can always add them later on if your need for more of the products grows.
Not every animal has a Farm Cash version that produces more products than an animal costing coins to buy or gifted working animal.
Putting a duplicated animal shed on the same farm just acts as decoration.You will be able to see the same animals in both sheds as it mimics what the other one has so that it doesn't matter which one you look in to see if the shed is full. However, when you harvest the animals you only get products from the amount of animals in one of them. For example if you had 300 hens and two chicken coops on the same farm, even though it will look like you have 300 hens in both chicken coops, you only get 300 eggs not 600 when you harvest.
You can place more than one of the exact same type if you wish perhaps for design purposes, but you will only get one lot of products when you harvest one of them. Both of them will then show harvested.
When you place an Animal shed, it is not ready to harvest yet!
Make sure that you have placed the appropriate animals in it, before you try to harvest it.
Once you have placed it, you need to wait out the time showing on that animal building.
In the example below, it's a dairy shed (coins) and as long as you have animals in the shed you will be able to harvest it in about 8 hours time.
The Premium Cow Hay information in the picture is explained later in this chapter and is related to the facilities that can also help to increase the products you get from your animal sheds.
Each different type of animal shed (dairy shed, chicken coop, wool shed, stables, rabbit hutch, pigsty) has it's own individual harvest time.
To Harvest an Animal Building:
You can mouseover the animal building on your farm to get the harvest time information.
When it says Ready to Harvest Animals, you can click on the Building to see the menu then click on Harvest xxx to harvest it.
OR If you are using the Facility Manager, you can look for those Animal Buildings and when they show Ready to Harvest you can click on Harvest Animals to harvest that animal building.
If you own the Animal Harvester tools you can click on the Harvest All blue button at the top of the Facility Manager to harvest multiple animal buildings on many different farms with one click!
When changing a regular animal shed for a Super shed:- You will need to store ALL of the animals in the regular shed in your Item Storage before you can store the regular shed.
- Then you can place the super shed and add animals to it.
- Again you will need to wait some time before you can harvest it.
Chicken Coop OR Super Chicken Coop
- Eggs are from Hens , Leghorn Hens and the Goose.
Hens and the Goose can not be bought in the store, your Neighbours and Buddies can send you them using the Gift Manager.
Leghorn Hens produce more hens eggs than the gifted Hen and can be bought from the Animals section of the store.
NOTE: Yellow chickens bought from the store do not produce eggs!
- Feathers are harvested from Turkeys.
Turkeys can not be bought in the store, your Neighbours and Buddies can send you them using the Gift Manager.
No other Turkeys produce Turkey feathers.
- Feathers are also harvested from the Peacock and Ostrich.
Peacocks and Ostriches can be bought from the Animals section of the store.
There are No other Peacocks.
No other Ostriches produce feathers.
The Chicken Coop can be harvested every 20 hours. (1x Farm Town day)
1 x Leghorn Hen in a Chicken Coop gives you 30 eggs.
The Super Chicken Coop can be harvested every 12 hours.
1 x Leghorn Hen in a Super Chicken Coop gives you 60 eggs.
Double capacity, more benefit to Leghorn Hens and can be harvested more often.
Wool Shed OR Super Wool Shed
- The Llama and Heavywool Llama produce llama wool.
- The Sheep and Heavywool Sheep produce sheep's wool.
Those 4 animals can be purchased from the Animal Section of the Store.
NO other Sheep, Lambs or Llamas produce wool.
The Wool shed can be harvested every 40 hours. (2x Farm Town days)
1 x Heavywool Llama in a Wool Shed gives you 30 llama wool.
1 x Longwool Sheep in a Wool Shed gives you 30 sheep wool.
The Super Wool shed can be harvested every 20 hours. (1x Farm Town day)
1 x Heavywool Llama in a Super Wool Shed gives you 60 llama wool.
1 x Longwool Sheep in a Wool Shed gives you 60 sheep wool.
Double capacity, more benefit to Heavywool Llamas and Longwool Sheep and can be harvested more often.
Dairy Shed OR Super Dairy Shed
- Cows and Holstein Cows produce Cow milk.
Cows can not be bought in the store, your Neighbours and Buddies can send you them using the Gift Manager.
Holstein Cows can be bought in the Animal section of the Store.
No other Cows produce cow milk.
- Goats produce Goat milk.
Goats can not be bought in the store, your Neighbours and Buddies can send you them using the Gift Manager.
No other Goats produce Goat Milk.
The Dairy Shed can be harvested every 8 hours.
1 x Holstein Cow in a Regular Shed gives 30 cow milk.
The Super Dairy Shed can be harvested every 8 hours.
1 x Holstein Cow in a Super Shed gives 60 cow milk.
Double capacity, more benefit to Holstein Cows.
Pigsty. There is no Super Pigsty.
- Pigs produce Manure to fertilize your farms.
Pigs can not be bought in the store, your Neighbours and Buddies can send you them using the Gift Manager.
No other pigs in the store produce Manure.
- You will ALSO need to own a Manure Spreader before you can harvest the pigs!
Depending on which Manure Spreaders you own, you can gain extra products when harvesting your crops, harvesting or chopping trees, flowers.
Manure collected from Pigs when the Pigsty is harvested is stored with the Manure Spreader.
The Pigsty can be harvested every 12 hours.
To see how much Manure you have, open your toolbox and mouseover your Manure Spreader and read the information in the tooltip that shows.
Manure can not be sold.
50 Manure will fertilize one farm for 72 hours (3 days). You can not fertilize a farm again until that time has passed.
Rabbit Hutch OR Super Rabbit Hutch
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- ONLY the White Rabbit produces rabbit fleece!
The White Rabbit can be bought from the Animals section of the Store.
The Bunny in the Animal Store, any other rabbits or bunnies, do NOT produce rabbit fleece.
The Rabbit Hutch can be harvested every 40 hours. (2x Farm Town days)
The Super Rabbit Hutch can be harvested every 20 hours. (1x Farm Town day)
Double capacity and can be harvested more often.
Horse stables
Stables costing 25 Farm Cash OR Stables costing 28 Farm Cash OR the Super Stables that cost 50 Farm Cash
- Horse Hairs can ONLY be harvested from the Horse and Clydesdale.
Neither horse can be bought from the Animals section of the store, your Neighbours and Buddies can send you them using the Gift Manager.
You can have both horses in the same Stable.
300 horses and 300 Clydesdales in one regular size Stable produce 600 Horsehair when harvested once every 2 days.
No other Horses produce Horse Hair.
The 25 FC Stables and 28 FC Stables can be harvested every 40 hours. (2x Farm Town days)
300 horses and 300 Clydesdales in one regular size Stable produce 600 Horsehair when harvested once every 40 hours (2 Farm Town days)
The 50 FC Super Stables has Double capacity and can be harvested every 8 hours.
600 horses and 600 Clydesdales in a Super Stable produce 1200 Horsehair when harvested every 8 hours!