Breeding (Skill)

## Description

The breeding skill is one of the skill in the game that relate to raising livestock and poultry (animals). These animals are the main source to gain animal products (egg, duck egg, duck feather, goose egg, goose feather, peacock feather, milk, ewes' milk, wool, and alpaca hair) that contribute to experience (Exp.) point. Poultry house raise poultry, while barn raise livestock.

## Breeding and Raising Guide

### Requirement

The first thing that needs to be done to start breeding is to built the buildings that correspond to raising livestock and poultry such as, poultry houses, barns, and bait workshop. These buildings can be built by paying Steve at The Carpenter's. After the buildings are finished being built, player can purchase livestock and poultry from Ranch (Cruz's Ranch). Place chickens, ducks, geese, or peacocks at poultry house. While cows, goats, sheep, alpacas, or piggies can be placed at barns. The barns and poultry houses need to be upgraded to hold more animals.
### Feeding

After naming and placing the animals at their respective buildings, player needs to make feeds at bait workshop to fed livestock and poultry so they can grow up and produce animal products. Player can fed the animals by manually placing the feeds into the tank inside the barn and poultry house. Player can also automatically fed the animals without manually placing feeds into the tank using automatic feeder that can be forge at smithy. The automatic feeder needs to be placed inside the barn and poultry house before being used, only one automatic feeder needed per building. Animals can also eat weed, that wildly grow everywhere, near them. Weed can also be planted using forage seed without plowing and placed within access to the animals. Forage seeds can be purchased at the grocery and will mature the next day after planted.

### Fondness

Purchased animals move in at their respective buildings as babies. It will take a few days for baby animals to grow up before animal products can be harvested (collected). They can also be sold for more coins than they were first purchased as they grow up and the fondness increase.

Increasing fondness of the animals will make them in a happier mood that allows them to increase the quality of their production. Clicking on the animals counts as canoodling or showing them affection, which can help increases their fondness. They can also be fed love dough that can be make at bait workshop to increase their fondness, but cannot be fed if they have already ate one and are full. Locking the animals at the barns and poultry houses and forbidding them to go out during the day will make them grumpy and affect the quality of their production. Let the animals out during the day by opening the barns' and poultry houses' animals door and during the night calling them using the bell inside the barns and poultry houses to go back inside. Remember to close the animals door during the night when all the animals are inside the barns and poultry houses, in case they run away. The animals usually go back inside the barns and poultry houses by themselves at 20:00 game time. Tips, player can also built fences and gate around the barns, poultry houses, and animals so the animals door can be opened all the time, the animals can go out by themselves, and player not worrying over lost animals.

### Harvesting

Harvesting (collecting) animal products will be different according to each animal. Animal products such as, eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs laid by chickens, ducks, and geese can be gathered manually by going inside the poultry houses. While, duck feather, goose feather, and peacock feather needed to be shed by ducks, geese, and peacocks can also be gathered manually by going inside the poultry houses. Bucket needed to milk cows and goats for milks, ewes' milks. Cows and goats that can be milked will be a little fuller and will have their udders showing. While sheep and alpacas that have visible hair can be sheared/trimmed using scissors to collect wool and alpaca hair. Milking and shearing can only be done during the day and outside the barn. Because bucket and scissors considered as tools, it can be also upgraded at smithy. Collecting animal products can also be done quickly and automatically using auto collector forged at smithy. The auto collector needs to be placed inside the barn and poultry house before being used, only one auto collector needed per building. Even after using auto collector, sometime player still needed to collect animal products manually because the limited capacity of auto collector.

### Breeding

Currently, the new player using the new version of the game can only raising livestock and poultry because egg hatching hut is **not in the game anymore**. For the player that have used the old version of the game and have the poultry house that have been upgraded until level 3 in the old version, will still have egg hatching hut inside the poultry house and still can be used. In this case, player that used to experience the old version of the game can still breed poultry such as, chickens, ducks, and geese that laid eggs. These eggs can be hatch by player using egg hatching hut inside the poultry house that came with it, one at a time. The egg will hatch usually after 5 days game time. Before hatching the egg, make sure to leave one vacancy in the poultry house to place the baby animals that will hatch inside.