Growing crops in Farmville is the activity that typically receives the most attention. It can earn you the most coins and experience, and if you’re on top of harvesting, will advance you faster in the game. However, other activities such as adding livestock to your farm and harvesting them for coins, can also be beneficial to your advancement and enjoyment in Farmville.
While it may not make you as much profit in the game, there are advantages to raising animals. Besides being cute and decorative, they do not “go bad” as crops will do if you don’t harvest them at the right time. This can be helpful if you’re not able to visit your farm regularly, or will be away from a computer on vacation.
In addition, animals can often be received as gifts, which means you can add them to your farm and collect coins after harvesting them, without having to invest in buying the livestock with your hard-earned funds.
Getting smaller animals can be a space saver too. Animals such as rabbits and ducks don’t take up that much room, and can earn you easy coinage. You can also invest in a chicken coop or dairy farm to house multiple chickens and cows, up to 20, which can be harvested all at the same time, saving you time and space.
There are currently close to 50 animals available on Farmville. Some of them can be purchased at market, such as chickens, pigs and sheep. Limited animals also show up in market; however, you’ll need to buy them before time expires and they can be quite expensive. Most other animals are only available through gifting from friends.
Another way to add animals to your farm is to “adopt” one. This can be accomplished by checking the profile pages of your Facebook friends. If a lost animal is found on their farm, they can put it up for adoption on their Facebook newsfeed. You’ll need to be quick and on the ball to capitalize on these opportunities. The first person who clicks on the adoption link will receive the animal, and no one else can get it after that.
According to the many profit charts and discussions on farm animals in Farmville, generally the best animals to maintain on your farm are goats, horses, ducks and rabbits, but that also depends on how often you can visit your farm to harvest those animals.
For the work you spend on your animals, Farmville will also reward you with ribbons, such as the Zoologist ribbons for harvesting your animals; the Animal Shelter ribbons for adopting lost animals; and the Noah’s Ark ribbons for having different kinds of animals. Ribbons will earn you coins as well.
Finally, it is possible to pet your animals, but the only result is hearing them make sounds. There is no financial benefit to petting your livestock, but it can be a fun activity, especially if you have children!
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When you accept an animal for adoption it places it in your gift box. While it is still in your gift box other people can accept it too. The moment someone ‘places’ the animal on their farm no-one else can get it too. Therefore when you get a lost animal on your farm post it with a message ‘Please leave this animal in your gift box for 24 hours’ then all your neighbours can have the animal. It works, my lost animals get adopted many times over!
how do you store a sheep once you buy one , i bought a sheep and don’t know what to do with him such as what to do with him, do i need a place to store him?