Posted in Livestock, New Features | January 7th, 2010 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: chicken coop, chickens, mystery eggs
Earlier I posted an article about the new chicken feeding feature and how there’s a lack of incentive to do it.
Well there’s another component to this that I wasn’t aware of. If your friends feed your chickens, your eggs will be “especially good” and you can get a coin bonus. My chickens were fed twice and I got 2,000 extra coins. I’m guessing its 1,000 for every feeding.
Still though, I think mystery eggs are a big racket. If you do happen to get your hands on a mystery egg and inside is a nice golden chicken, you don’t get to keep the mystery eggs that that golden chicken produces. So there’s not really much incentive to try and get a golden chicken, or any chicken. Unless your goal is to help your fellow farmers.
Posted in Livestock | December 15th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: turtle
Ok so the lost turtle is probably old news to many people but it’s new to me since I took a 2 month break from the farm.
I just got myself one. We’ll see how much money this little guy is worth. He’s a cute little booger.
Posted in Livestock | December 11th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: baby calf, baby cow
We previously posted about the baby calf and the Bull required to make them. I have a little more info about the baby calfs. They do NOT turn into adult cows. They stay as babies and you collect, I think it was hair or something from them. My pink calf harvests for 80 coins. Not sure if all colored calfs are that much.
Today a baby calf was born on my farm. Check your friend’s feeds to adopt baby calfs!
Posted in Livestock | December 10th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: baby calf, baby cow, bull, cow
Farmville has added a new wandering animal to the mix, the Bull. If you adopt a Bull from a friend and you place it in your Dairy Farm, it will mate with your cows. Then the stork will come along and you’ll have baby calfs which you can place on your feed for your friends to adopt! As far as I know, you don’t get to keep the babies. You have to give them away on your feed for adoption.
This is a lot more complicated than other adoption interactions as it involves three people instead of two. Person A finding a wandering bull, Person B adopts the bull, Person B posts baby calfs to feed, and Person C gets to adopt the baby calf.
Posted in Livestock | December 10th, 2009 by farmersue | 3 Comments »
Tags: baby calf, baby cow, calf, cow, pink cow
So apparently there’s baby animals now. Today I adopted a pink baby calf from Farmer Claire. My guess is that when it’s “ready” it will turn into a normal sized cow. It’s quite cute. More details will be posted as I have them.
Posted in Buildings, Livestock | December 5th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: brown cow, building, Buildings, cattle, cow, cows, dairy farm, pink cow
A new building has been added to the structure set in Farmville. But unlike many of the other buildings, this one is actually useful. The Dairy Farm will save you space and time by combining up to 20 of your cows into one structure and collecting their milk all at once. A Dairy Farm will cost you 10,000 coins or 20 Farmville Cash. You can place up to 20 of your cows inside and milk them all with just one click!
To add your cows to the dairy farm, just click on your cow, select move, and click on the Dairy Farm. You should see the building start to sparkle to confirm your cow has been added. You can also see the contents of the Dairy Farm by clicking on the farm and selecting Look Inside.
Note: If you have cows that are ready for milking when you first buy your Dairy Farm, be sure to milk them before placing them in the Dairy Farm. Otherwise, you will lose out on that milk. I acted too quickly and lost out on some coins. Oh well.
dairy farm
Posted in Livestock, New Features | October 14th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: cursors, tabs
Farmville has been updated with a new interface for animals. When an animal is ready for collecting, they no longer glow pink. Instead a pink tab appears above the animal. When you’ve got your animals crammed together enough to enrage a member of PETA, you start to have trouble selecting your animals. In theory, this change should make it easier to select the animals. However, I think the execution could be a bit better. In some cases, the hot spot or actionable space is not in direct correlation with the tab space. The tabs work well for horses, cows, and baby elephants. But I think it needs improvement for the smaller animals such as ducks, pigs, goats, and bunnies.
Intuitively, you’d expect the central point of the hot spot to be the center of the tab. But the actual center is to the right of the tab. Meaning if you aim your cursor toward the tab and are slightly off to the left of the tab, you’ll actually be selecting the animal to the left, rather than the animal you intended. See visual below explaining the hot spot location.
Because of this offset hot spot, I find the tabs to not really be an improvement over the old interface. We still have problems selecting animals either way.
Posted in Beginners, Livestock | October 12th, 2009 by farmersue | No Comments »
Tags: adopt, adoption, pink cow, pink cows
This question comes in from Lin who’s a brand new farmer. She asks,
Q: i am new to farmville..i adopted 2 pink cows and can’t find them where did they go..help plz
A:
Dearest Lin,
When you click the adopt link, a message will be displayed letting you know whether you’ve actually been the first to adopt the animal first. Be sure to read the message because the successful adoption and the “sorry, someone else has already given the cow/duck/sheep a home” messages look almost identical. Both will show a picture of the smiling animal. If you are successful in adopting the animal, it will appear in your gift box. See screenshot below to see where to find your gift box.
Welcome to Farmville Lin!
Check out the Pink Cow, Mysteries Revealed article for additional details on the pink cow.
Posted in Livestock, New Items | October 10th, 2009 by farmersue | 6 Comments »
Tags: cow, cows, pink cow, pink cows, wandering, wandering livestock
I’ve finally gotten my hands on one of those pretty pink cows everyone’s been going crazy over. Here are the details: Strawberry milk from the pink cow harvests in 1 day for 18 coins.
How do you get a pink cow? A pink cow has to wander onto a friend’s farm and that friend has to post it to their facebook feed. Then check your facebook feed for pink cows and click the adopt link. Using the isolated Farmville feed helps a lot. If a pink cow wanders onto your farm, you cannot keep the cow for yourself. You’ll need to post it to your feed for someone else to adopt.
Posted in Livestock, New Items | October 9th, 2009 by farmersue | 9 Comments »
Tags: pink cow, wandering, wandering livestock
Farmville staff have announced a new pink cow. I will post more details as I have them.
UPDATE!!! - more details on the pink cow in this article: Mysteries of the Pink Cow Revealed
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