Farmville Dairy Farms Explained

Dairy farms are a somewhat recent addition to the game which add some excitement, fun and complexity to managing the cows on your farm. You can store up to twenty cows inside the dairy farm, which will make harvesting your cows much faster and easier. Instead of needing to click on 20 individual cows to harvest milk from them, you only need to click once each day on the dairy farm. It can make the whole process of owning and managing cows in Farmville much more enjoyable.

Dairy farms also have some very important additional benefits. Owning a dairy farm increases your chances to gain extra fertilizer when you fertilize the crops of your friends. Remember that you benefit as well when you fertilize the crops of your friends and you gain both coins and XP.

You can also take advantage of some special strategies and cheats with dairy farms in Farmville. An important thing to know is that the completion status of the enitre dairy farm follows the completion status of the first cow you put inside. So by using a simple trick you can maximize your return through switching cows in and out of the dairy farm. It’s a little confusing at first, but here is how it works. The first thing to do is to have a full dairy farm with 20 cows in it and several additional cows wandering on your fields. The more extra cows you have, the more times you’ll be able to repeat the trick. Once you have everything set up, wait one full day for all of the cows to get to 100% complete. The next step is to harvest your dairy farm. Then, empty the dairy farm completely. Next, put one of the additional cows you had on your fields into the dairy farm. Because these cows are also at 100% completion, your dairy farm will suddenly jump back to 100% complete. Now for the sneaky part: put 19 of your harvested cows back into the dairy farm and then harvest the whole dairy farm again. It will treat all 20 cows inside as being complete. Now just repeat the process as many times as you can, depending on how many additional cows you had on your field. It involves a lot of clicking, but the amount of coins you can make in a day using this technique is exceptional.

Now, a little bit about calves in FarmVille. These are a recent addition to the game, introduced in December, 2009. In addition to being ridiculously cute, calves are extremely profitable animals to keep on your farm. There are currently four different kinds of calves: regular, pink, brown and alien (green). When a player puts a bull inside his or her dairy farm, there’s a fifty percent chance that it will mate with one of the cows inside and produce a calf. Your friends can adopt the calves produced in your farm and each calf may only be adopted by one friend. Although calves cannot be placed inside the dairy farm, they are very profitable animals, and are harvested once each day for 80 coins each.

One more thing about dairy farms in Farmville: you can have up to five of them on your farm at once, each holding 20 cows for a total of up to one hundred cows in your dairy farms. That’s a lot of cows, but it allows you to build up a very impressive dairy farming operation in the game.