How to Breed Rare Calves in Farmville

The processes of breeding calves has gone through many changes since the time that Farmville first released the dairy barn for cows.  However, now that other breeding crazes such as sheep breeding have been introduced, the chances are very low that Farmville will make additional change to dairies and how to breed calves.  So here are some of the best methods you can use to breed rare calves. 
Calf Breeding Basics:

1. You can only get one calf a day.  However, if you are able to get a bull for your English Farm, you can get two calves in a day.
2. You can only have 5 coin bought dairies on each of your farms. 
3. There are 10 calf links on each calf post from a dairy.
4. If you happen to get an English calf, you can put it in your nursery barn and grow it up which will give you five English calves to share with your friends.

How to Breed a Specific Rare Calf:

1. If you just got a new type of cow that you would like to breed, the best way to do this is to have more than one of this type of cow.  The reason you want more of that type of cow, is because Farmville often favors the type of cow that that has the greatest number in your dairy. 
2. The second thing you need to do is to use a dairy that has only at a capacity of 20 cows.  The reason for this is because your chances of getting a calf are based on a ratio of numbers of cows to cow capacity.  So, if you have 4 cows in a 40 cow capacity dairy, you will have less chances of getting a calf than if you have 4 cows in a 20 cow capacity dairy. 
3. The next thing you need to do is to place a lot of cows on your farm so they can be used as seeders.  Since calf breeding using seeders can never be 100%, you should assure that you are using seeder cows that are also rare types of cows.  These should be cow types that you would not mind getting the calf from in the event that the type of cow you are trying to breed is not selected.
4. Once you have your empty 20 capacity dairy, at least two of the rare type of cow, and a lot of ready seeder cows on your farm, then you are ready to begin.  Using the hand moving tool, grab one of the rare types of cows and place it in your empty dairy.  Harvest.  If you do not get a calf, grab your second rare cow and place it in your dairy.  Place each of your target rare cows in the dairy and harvest before you start using the other seeder cows.
5. If you did not get a calf with this first attempt, go ahead and grab a seeder cow and place it in the dairy with your 2-3+ rare calves and then harvest.  If you still do not get a calf, this time you will have to look inside the dairy and remove the seeder cow.  Keep using the seeders until you get a calf.  Hopefully FV will follow its most prevalent rule in cow selection and that is to select the cows that have the greatest number in your dairy and not the seeder.

Hands Off Approach to Breeding Rare Calves:
If the previous approach sounds like a lot of work, you are right.  It is not something that you will want to do every day. The first approach is nice to do when a new type of cow comes out that you want to breed right away.

1. So in order to have a hands off approach to breeding rare calves, you need only to fill a dairy with as many rare calves as possible. Remember the capacity ration when doing this.  So if you have 15 rare cows, you should place them in a 20 cow capacity dairy.  This will give you better chances of getting a calf. 
2. Once you get more rare calves you should expand your dairy and try to fill it to the next level.  The reason for expanding is that you have better chances of getting a calf every day if you have a full 40 capacity dairy than if you had a full 20 capacity dairy.
3. When you have your dairy full of rare cows, then wait for it to be ready and harvest.  Be sure that this is the first dairy with a bull in it that you harvest for the day since that is the most likely dairy that will produce a calf. 
4. If you do not get a calf on the first try, you can use your cow seeders to try again.  The good thing is that with fuller dairies, it is unlikely that you will have to try more than two or three times before getting a calf.  Furthermore, since your dairy only has rare cows in it, you are sure to get a rare calf.

So, if you follow these two methods you are sure to get at least one rare calf in a day and maybe more since you have the opportunity to get 4 rare calves every day.  You have two chances of breeding in your dairies on both your home and English farms.  Plus you have two chances of growing up a calf in your nursery and then sharing the calves with your friends.  So have fun with it.  Since you can only get one calf in a day from dairies, you will definitely be happy to get the calf you are trying for.

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