Can animals go in the appropriate building if it's on my other farm?
Yes!
Adding animals on the farm to Item Storage:
If it's only 1 animal, you can put the animal into your Item storage by clicking on the animal and using the animals menu. Click on Add to Storage to add it to your Item Storage.
If you are storing more than one animal it's much quicker to use the free Add to Item Storage tool in your toolbox to add it to your Item Storage.
To use it open your toolbox...
Click on the Add to Item Storage tool then click on each animal that you want to send to your Item Storage.
When you are done using the tool click on the green man in your game bar to stop using the tool.
(The Use button will let you place the animal on your farm, one at a time.)
How to empty an animal building:
If you want to move an animal building from one farm to another farm, you must empty the animal building of animals before you can store the animal shed to move it to another farm.
If you want to change a regular shed for a super shed, you must empty the animal building of animals before you can store the regular animal shed and then place a super version.
- Go to the farm the animal building is on, show Animal Buildings in your preferences so that you can see it.
- Click on the animal building to show the building menu. Scroll down and click on Show Animals.
- Click on the Store button on every animal in the building to send them all to your Item Storage.
- Then click on the red X to close the animal building.
- Click on the building and then click on Add to Storage to store it.
- Go to the farm where you want to put the animal building, make sure there is enough clear space to place it on the farm.
- Open your Item Storage, look in the Facilities section or use the search box to search for it. Then you will be able to click on Use to move your animal building from Item Storage to your farm.
Send animals straight from your Item Storage to the animal shed on your farm.
There needs to be enough room in your animal building to be able to add animals.
Open your Item Storage, use the A-Z filter top right to show only Animals, or use the search box top right to search for them. When you find the animal, click on the blue Move button.
The amount of animals that can fit into your animal building will be moved to it, if there are any left those remain in your item storage.
Send animals straight from your Gift Box to the animal shed on your farm.
The must be room in your animal building to add animals to it.
Open your Gift Manager, accept or exchange and accept gifts for animals.
Then in the My Gifts section, look for the animal gifts you accepted and click on Store
The amount of animals that can fit in your animal shed will be moved to it.
OR if you have more than one type of working animal in your gift box and you have room in all the animal buildings on your farm you can store them all at once.
Top right of the gift box you will see "Store Ingredients" just to the right of that is a small drop down arrow.
Click on the drop down arrow, scroll down and click on Store Animals
To Store the animals click on the blue Store Animals button and the amount of animals that will fit into the animal buildings will be sent to those buildings. If there are any left in your Gift Box you can repeat that by going to another of your farms where there is room for them in other animal buildings.
How many animals do I have in my animal sheds?
There are several ways to see how many animals are in a building, depending on what you want to see and where you are looking:
If you are on the farm where your animal building is, you could show the animal buildings in your preferences, click on the animal building, then click on
Show Animals Inside.
The animal shed will open and show you how many of each animal you have in it.
When you are not on the farm where the animal building is, or you may want to check a few different ones and they may be on different farms, you could use your Facility Manager instead and try one of the following:
Open your Toolbox and click on the Facility Manager to open it.
There are several ways to search within the Facility Manager for animal buildings:
You could click on the search icon, then in the search box, type in the name of the animal shed and it will show you anything matching what you typed in, in this case "Dairy shed"
Instead of using the search box, you could click on the Funnel filter and change what the Facility Manager shows you:
Changing the options to these would show you All Animals Buildings on All farms.
Note the Location is set to All Farms and the check marks have been removed for Regular Facilities and Service Facilities.
If you make any changes to your Facility Manager remember to click the green check mark to save the change.
When you are done searching remember to change the settings again back to what you want as you may want include your regular and service facilities again, then click the green check mark to save the change.
Changing the options to these would show you All Animals Buildings that you have but ONLY on the Farm you are currently on.
Note the Location is set to Current Farm and the check marks have been removed for Regular Facilities and Service Facilities.
If you make any changes to your Facility Manager remember to click the green check mark to save the change.
When you are done searching remember to change the settings again back to what you want as you may want include your regular and service facilities again as well as all them on ALL farms. Then click the green check mark to save the change.
When you see the animal building in the Facility Manager, the information in each box tells you which farm the animal shed is on, how many of each animal that you have in it and if it's ready to harvest yet or a a time is showing when it will be ready to harvest:
The Dairy shed on the left is on Farm 3 (F3), has 300 cows and goats in it and will be ready to harvest in 2 hours. The Dairy shed on the right is on Farm 5 (F5), has 300 cows and goats in it and is Ready to Harvest.
To Harvest the animals click on Harvest Animals
You can also Harvest Animals from the building on the farm, but that can be much slower when you have more animal buildings on more farms.
To Harvest an Animal Building, click on the Animal Building, then scroll down and click on Harvest xxx (fowls, sheep and llamas, white rabbits, cows and goats, horses, collect manure)
To locate which farms have animal sheds on and which do not, you could use the Farm Stats tool in your Toolbox.
There are farm and farm size requirements to be able to use the tool fully.
It can also help you locate where other facilities are located as well as using it for what farm work you have on farms.
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