Farmville Helpers: New Livestock Pen Guide, September 15, 2011!

The Livestock Pen is now available to breed more animals in FarmVille! Harvesting the animals inside the Livestock Pen counts towards Animal Mastery! And guess what? More animals in your Livestock Pen means more chances of finding new Animal Mystery Babies! Build your Livestock Pen and start growing these cute little animals today!

The Livestock Pen is the fifth of seven total new breeding buildings to be released.

Farmers with an Animal Trough will receive a message to replace it with a new Livestock Pen, Zoo, Pet Run or Wildlife Habitat. But do not fear, the Livestock Pen, the Zoo, the Pet Run, Wildlife Habitat, and other forthcoming breeding pens will offer you even more opportunities to claim Animals!

Breeding your Livestock Pen Animals:

You can breed a wide variety of Livestock Pen animals, such as goats, sheep, pigs, boars, alpacas, llamas, ewes, javelinas, potbellies, and longhorns.

Note: The Livestock Pen won’t store any sheep or pigs that you created by breeding with the Sheep Pen or Pigpen.

You don’t need pairs of animals to find a Mystery Baby; you just need one of any particular Animal in your Livestock Pen to have a chance of finding its Mystery Baby upon harvesting the Livestock Pen!

Placing the Livestock Pen:

You will need the following Building Materials to complete your Livestock Pen:

10x Water Pump
10x Wire
10x Steel Beam

There are four ways of obtaining Building Materials:

Free Gifts Tab – Send a Free Gift to friends to help them with their building
Click on green button “Ask for Part” – Send requests for parts to any friend once every four hours
Click on the green button “Complete Now” – Use Farm Cash to complete Building immediately
Click on the green button “Buy” – Use Farm Cash to obtain that specific part

This is what your Livestock Pen will look like once it’s completed:

Upon completing your Livestock Pen, you will receive one free Red Goat:

You can store up to 20 animals in each Livestock Pen that you own. Like Orchards, you can have more than one Livestock Pen on your farm and can choose which Livestock Pen you would like to use to store a specific Livestock Pen animal.

Clicking on the Livestock Pen gives you the option to:

Look inside
Apply Instant Grow
Move
Sell

You can view all your current animals inside your Livestock Pen, including Animal Mastery status and quantity, when selecting the “Look Inside” option. You can also use Animal Instant Grow which will be applied to all animals inside the Livestock Pen:

Animals that are qualified for the Livestock Pen but are not placed inside the Livestock Pen (whether you own these animals or not) appear translucent:

Some animals are only available from the Market, while others are available from your friends. (Some animals will not be available at this time, but stay tuned as they may make a comeback in the future!) When looking Inside the Livestock Pen, the Mystery Babies that are available from Friends will have a small sunshine indicator when rolling your cursor over the animal. So keep an eye on your Newsfeed for Animals Mystery Babies from your friends!

The Mystery Babies that you can claim from your friends can include:

Mystery Babies: Mystery Babies (or “common” Mystery Babies) are orange cribs and include previous Coin animals, Lonely Animals, and Quest rewards.
Rare Mystery Babies: The Rare Mystery Babies are purple cribs and include previous Limited Edition items (but only ones worth less than 15 Farm Cash) and Common Mystery Game items.

Note: The information above applies only to Mystery Babies you claim from your friends! Any Mystery Baby that you find in your own Livestock Pen will grow up to be just like one of the animals that was in your Livestock Pen at the time of harvest! (To qualify to create a Mystery Baby, an animal must be in the Livestock Pen from before 10% harvest progress until the Livestock Pen is harvested.)

Harvesting your animals inside the Livestock Pen:

You will see a pink arrow above the Livestock Pen once it’s ready for harvest and an orange illumination around when hovering over:

When you harvest your Livestock Pen for coins and Animal Mastery, you have a chance to find a Mystery Baby! The more animals inside your Livestock Pen, the better your chances of finding a Mystery Baby upon harvest. When you find a Mystery Baby, you’ll have the option to share an extra one with your friends!

Keep a lookout in your Newsfeed for Mystery Babies that you can claim from your friends!
You don’t need pairs of animals to find a Mystery Baby from your own Livestock Pen; you just need one of any particular animals in your Livestock Pen to have a chance of finding its Mystery Baby upon harvesting the Livestock Pen!

When you don’t find a Mystery Baby upon harvest, you will find coins and Animal Feed, which you can share with your friends!

Mystery Baby Animals:

Mystery Babies grow up into rare or common animals; the color of the baby crib will tell you which is which: purple baby cribs are rare, and orange baby cribs are common.

When you find a Mystery Baby after harvest, you will be able to place the little baby on your farm. There will be a green illumination hovering over open areas on your farm:

After placing your new little baby on the farm, you will have five options:

Complete Now – Use Farm Cash to complete animal immediately
Feed Baby (requires Animal Feed)
Ask For Feed – Post your request to the Newsfeed where your friends can click the post and help send you Animal Feed
Move
Sell

When selecting “Ask For Feed”, you can ask your Friends to send Animal Feed. You will need 10 or 30 Animal Feeds to complete your baby, depending on whether the baby is common or rare:

You will be notified once your baby has grown up into an adult. Any Mystery Baby that you find in your own Livestock Pen will grow up to be just like one of the animals that was in your Livestock Pen at the time of harvest!

Don’t forget: To qualify to create a Mystery Baby, an animal must be in the Livestock Pen from before 10% harvest progress until the Livestock Pen is harvested.