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Complete Pet Care Guide for Project Zomboid (Build 42)
This guide details how to care for animals in Project Zomboid (Build 42), including feeding, breeding, building facilities, and tips to increase the sustainability of your base. It covers chickens, cows, sheep, pigs, rabbits, and other animals, as well as useful professions and skills.
1. 🐔 Introduction to Chicken Care and Creating Animal Zones
- ✅ There are two types of chickens: white and brown, as well as turkeys that can be raised together.
- ✅ To raise animals, add a specific zone for them.
- ⚠️ Build fences around the zone to prevent animals from escaping due to thirst or stress.
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1. 🐔 Introduction to Chicken Care and Creating Animal Zones
- ✅ There are two types of chickens: white and brown, as well as turkeys that can be raised together.
- ✅ To raise animals, add a specific zone for them.
- ⚠️ Build fences around the zone to prevent animals from escaping due to thirst or stress.
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2. 💧 Feeding and Hydration: Building and Stocking Troughs
- ✅ Use troughs to provide food and water to the animals.
- ✅ There are three types of troughs: small (carpentry level 1), large (carpentry level 3), and metal (metalworking).
- ✅ Use one trough for water and another for food.
- ✅ Food options: bag of animal feed or grass cut with a scythe.
- ✅ Fill the water trough with a bucket or let the rain do it.
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3. 🏠 Chicken Coops: Breeding and Cleaning for Chicken Health
- ✅ Chicken coops (carpentry level 3) are needed for chickens to hatch their eggs and increase the population.
- ✅ Clean the chicken coop regularly to prevent dirt from reaching 100%, which can cause illness and death of the chickens.
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4. 🧼 Requirements and Actions in the Chicken Coop: Cleaning and Using Feathers
- ✅ To clean the chicken coop, you need water and a mop or sponge.
- ✅ Chickens and turkeys give feathers, used to make pillows and teddy bears.
- ✅ Chickens locked in the chicken coop do not provide feathers.
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5. 🌱 Pasture and Alternative Feeding: Grass and Troughs
- ✅ If there is grass in the zone, the animals graze and do not need to eat from the trough.
- ✅ If resources are lacking, prioritize the water trough.
- ✅ Use a rake to collect manure, which is used to make fertilizer.
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6. 🐣 Reproduction and Generation of Chicks: Males and Females
- ✅ Animals only reproduce if there is a male and female of the same species.
- ✅ A rooster is needed to fertilize the eggs and generate chicks.
- ⚠️ In some versions, female chickens reproduce even without a rooster (possible bug).
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7. 🖐️ Manual Care and XP Gain: Water, Food, and Affection
- ✅ Manually give water to the animals if there is no trough.
- ✅ Petting the animals once a day gives XP points in animal care.
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8. 🐄 Caring for Cows: Milking, Pregnancy, and Bulls
- ✅ Use a bucket to milk pregnant cows.
- ✅ Cows need a bull of the same species to get pregnant.
- ✅ The higher the level of animal care, the more milk you can get.
- ✅ The closer the animal is to giving birth, the more milk it will give.
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9. 🐄 Lassing and Controlling Cows: Safe Movement
- ✅ Use a rope to lasso and control the cows.
- ⚠️ There can only be one bull per zone, as they attack each other.
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10. 🥛 Use of Milk: Making Butter and Benefits
- ✅ Use the milk to make butter in the butter churn (farming build).
- ✅ For every 5 liters of milk, you make one butter.
- ✅ Butter gives -24 hunger and 3200 calories, ideal for fattening up the character.
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11. ☔ Rain Tests and Animal Health: Unnecessary Coverage
- ✅ Animals do not get sick from the rain, so it is not necessary to make a cover for them.
- ✅ Animals hide from the rain, but remain healthy.
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12. 🐑 Caring for Sheep: Feeding and Shearing
- ✅ Sheep need two troughs, one for food and one for water.
- ✅ If the sheep has wool, you can shear it.
- ✅ Use shears (craftable with the forge) or electric shears (found).
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13. 🐷 Caring for Pigs and Rabbits: Breeding and Purpose
- ✅ Pigs and rabbits can be raised together.
- ✅ Pigs are raised for slaughter and provide medium leather.
- ✅ Rabbits are raised for slaughter and provide small leather.
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14. 🐭 Other Animals: Rats, Raccoons, and Wild Animals
- ✅ Rats (mice) and raccoons can be found.
- ✅ Raccoons are like rabbits.
- ⚠️ Raccoons are wild animals and cannot be domesticated, only slaughtered for leather.
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15. 🛠️ Recommended Professions and Skills: Essential Carpentry
- ✅ The farmer profession is not essential for caring for animals.
- ✅ It is recommended to have points in carpentry, as it is necessary to build fences, chicken coops, and troughs.