In The Ranchers world you can breed:
💡 All the animals can be raised outdoors or indoors inside Barns and Coops.
Each animal has a particular food requirement and consumes a certain kind of food.
💡You can see what food an animal eats on its Information Pop-up:
Animals in a Barn or Coop will feed and drink from the troughs that contain their preferred food and drink.
Animals can graze on the wild grass (if it eats hay) or use the player’s troughs when it is outside a Barn or a Coop.
The farm animals will get sick if they do not eat and drink enough for some days.
There are 3 nutrition status in The Ranchers regarding farm animals:
The farm animal’s nutrition status changes based on whether it has met its daily food/drink goals.
The animal’s nutrition status has a big impact on how many resources it provides to the player (milk, egg..).
An animal that is happy in The Ranchers world is one that:
Farm animals can became sick for various reasons.
💡When your animal is sick a special sick icon is shown in the information Pop-up:
The main factors that can make your animals sick are:
If the farm animal didn't reach its daily food objective for a certain number of days, then it will became sick.
The animal's starving resistance will vary from one animal to another.
In The Ranchers, you can raise animals without necessarily associating them to a Barn or a Coop.
If an animal does spend the whole day and night outside during the ❄️Winter it may get sick of the cold weather.
Your animals can became sick if kept inside the Barn or the Coop during the hot ☀️Summer nights or the cold ❄️Winter nights if there is no cooling/heating solution inside your Barn or Coop.
A sick farm animal will not eat, breed or produce any resource (such as milk, eggs…) for the player.
If the player does not heal the animal, it will lose a third (30%) of its original/maximum health every day it is ill and eventually perish.
During the Alpha and Beta development stage of The Ranchers, animal can be healed with Sea Weed that can be purchased from Nina's Ranch. This will change in future updates.
The animal will regain 30% of its original health every day until it is fully healthy. It will also resume its normal activities (eating, breeding, producing resources…).