Town Ranch

It's good to see that Spero has finally produced and sold it's very first pig!



Ranch Breeding Program
Keep track of the animal population and manage the breeding programs for the town animals.

Animal	Available	In Production	Currently in use
Chickens	8	0	17
Cows	1	5	5
Horses	0	1	2
Pigs	0	3	1
Sheeps	0	3

Feel free to use this thread for posting questions or to keep track of your data!

Yeah, I got me a piggy! I am thinking I should not have sold my corn to the town now, lol. Likely this one won't be living to it's full lifespan, but we'll see how it goes. Oh, and please feel free to really push animal breeding for people having trouble making money. It's been ages since I could buy anything but a chicken.

I agree about pushing more animals, the chickens seem to be made easily but everything else seems to drag. If it doesn't pick up now that we are not upgrading field cultures atm we'll explore raising the wage for breeding.

Alright, it looks like this pig experiment is coming to a close. I've bought out the town stocks of corn and only have 5 left....Maybe I'll keep going without corn, but I don't think the pig gets fatter without it.

There will be a supply of Corn, no need to worry about that

town raised the buying price of corn as well, to help keep supply flowing

that is a lot of corn

Heh, well, there is plopcorn now too and we might have more pig farmers. I'm sure people will be buying it

Pig farming is interesting to explore. THough more for people with more money than me I think. lol

Umm, why are we out of animals again? I thought all the breeding got done.

Each animal has to be bred by the citizens who take the jobs breeding animals. So, if no one takes the jobs breeding animals, no animals are ever made.

Animal	Available	In Production	Currently in use
Chickens	0	6	20
Cows	3	0	9
Horses	0	1	2
Pigs	0	2	2
Sheeps	0	2	2

Set Animal Prices
Here you can set the selling price for the animals. The money will go straig

I've been working on the principle that if you want an animal, you'd better breed it yourself.

I don't, and I buy eggs and milk when I see them (Which is never recently). Animals take too much stamina from me and I can do without, but I guess I'm not a standard villager.

Well I also still need to feed them, and I can't be sure about being in Town every day

Is there any way to speed up the breeding process, or do you just have to keep using entire days worth of stamina so that someone can snatch up the animal you were working to breed just as it becomes available?

Helfdane wrote:Is there any way to speed up the breeding process, or do you just have to keep using entire days worth of stamina so that someone can snatch up the animal you were working to breed just as it becomes available?

Hmm, is no way really. You can keep track of the progress bar and as soon as you create one it can be bought.

I am guessing you are trying to get something other than a chicken.


Based on some discussion, I think we'll try to raise the cow/sheep/pig wages a bit to encourage more production; at least for the short term.


I'm sorry its been a problem, it seems as soon as they are made they get sold.

Aye. I have been wanting a cow for a few days. I got the progress bar to nearly complete, but somebody else topped it off and bought the cow.

I don't understand why breeding would take anywhere near as much stamina as it does. Animals tend to breed naturally. I think the process should automatically progress daily, with spent stamina from the labor hall simply boosting it.

Well, because the game master can't just add animals for free. (Before you put something in the game, you must take something out, in this case stamina) Maybe the word breeding isn't quite right, ... any idea in re-naming the breeding proces is welcome

Caretaking? Raising? Pen/Stocks Management?


If we assume that they're all born the old fashion way, can we assume the towns buy young ones from county farms that must be acquired, raised(Fed, brushed, etc), cleaned, and other bits before sold? Or should I start a suggestion forum discussion for this rather than prowling?