It seems base animals are most profitable?

[Inferius]

Goats give milk every 2 days. Cows every day.
Sheep also every 2 days or more. Not sure.
Pigs..Useless whole winter.

Chickens give eggs every day.
Ducks 2 days or random. I haven't got any dinosaurs yet to test.

[DarkStarKnight]

Originally posted by Inferius:

Goats give milk every 2 days. Cows every day.
Sheep also every 2 days or more. Not sure.
Pigs..Useless whole winter.

Chickens give eggs every day.
Ducks 2 days or random. I haven't got any dinosaurs yet to test.

hey're only really profitable if you take perks, the really profitable chicken is the void chicken

[Bad Aim Bodyshot Barry]

(this is with the artisan profession, but you still get the same winner nomatter what professiom you have)

2 mayonase = 532 (this is based on 2 days)

1 duck mayo = 525.

this means that mayonase sells for Slightly more,

CHEESE--

2 normal cheese= 560 (with artisan profession)

1 goat cheese= 525

meaning that the basic animals make more $ overall

[I Kinda Fail]

Yeah. But you also have to check the animals daily. 2 full deluxe barns - 24 cows, 24 goats. The cows have to be milked daily, and you'll get 9600. The goats will be milked every 2 days, for 9000. Personally, I'd take the 600g loss if it means having to do half the work.

Truffle oil sells for 1k-1.5k. Even if your pigs only dig up a truffle every few days, that's still at least 5x the profit of the cow. 200g for cheese vs 1k for truffle oil. If you milk your single cow every day and make cheese, that's 22.4k per year per cow. If you get 1 truffle every 3 days, that's 38k.

It just depends on how much work and money you want to put into it. Pigs cost a lot more, but make a lot more. Goats are less work to milk than cows, but slightly less money.

[Pyromancer]

Originally posted by Inferius:

Pigs..Useless whole winter.

Truffles are more profitable than milk by a mile. I wouldn't even bother with milk or eggs if they weren't needed for cooking. Don't bother with sheep, you need like 6 cloth in the entire game, for bundle and windmill, one rabbit will get you enough

[Tim]

I just like to have one or more of every animal

[titanopteryx]

What's the best coop animal? A witch flew by and gave me a void egg and I've incubated it into a void chicken. And I used a wallpaper to get a dinosaur so every coop animal except a blue chicken is represented in my coop. I also picked the rancher farming perk because I don't want to do wine on this particular playthrough. Well except the one keg from the community center bundle I got for completing the bundle. Just animals, trees, and foraging. Foraging including the wild seeds forged from forage materials. So which animal should I fill my coop with?

[titanopteryx]

Time is why I went with a coop over a barn. A lot less time to click on each animal and pick up all the goods off the ground than milking cows. Just gotta buy feed every so often. Void chickens. Thanks to that witch I can fill the rest of the spaces of my coop with void chickens from incubating that first egg. I still need my rabbit to lose a foot for a bundle though.

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by red255:

the way you use a coop is you ignore it. you get some void chickens, you leave the door open, and otherwise ignore the chickens, once a week you enter the coop and pick up the eggs, make sure the auto feeder is running.

ideally you have enough mayo makers to process all the eggs.

then you sell the mayo.

you don't... do anything else.

So like. 12 void chickens 84 void eggs a week, maybe.

32400 if you turn it into mayo. with artisan. which should require 5 or 10 mayo makers placed where you generally spend your day, like fishing or mining. just fill them up as you fish.

Not the greatest amount of funds, but not unrespectable. dunno half a million a year.

Generally speaking you just want to farm some stuff and make some wine from it.

half a million profit from starfruit wine is just like 200 plants turned into wine.

I know about wine. On my main save I have ancient fruit growing in my greenhouse that I put into kegs in a shed. Recently bought krogus's teleport staff. On this save I'm doing now I started with the forest farm and aside from crops needed for the bundles, I'm going to make my money from trees, foraging including the wild seeds where you grow foragables like crops, and animals. I originally was going to sell the animals after I finished getting bundle items, but then that witch event happened. But I know about wine.

[Teabag]

I have 3 deluxe barns filled with pigs in my save and I remember it being way better than anything else animal-wise. Granted, I have both skills that make it better: iridium quality one and 20% for double harvest one. I made sure to pet each of pigs everyday and that they'd have perfect living conditions all year long (winter included!). I don't know why my screenshot is lost but i remember selling 10k of truffles for 12,5kk. And in my save I am on year 3 or 4... Don't think things get much better than that... Also I was done with pigs at 9:30 AM and had rest of the day to do whatever else I wanted. Also somebody said pigs would dig up a truffle every couple of days - no idea if this was changed but I collected 60-80 truffles DAILY from jus 36 pigs, so yeah :)

[Inferius]

If I get pigs and they will have a place outside to walk - do they need grass to eat?
Or hay is enough? Can I leave barn always open?

[Psylisa]

Originally posted by Inferius:

If I get pigs and they will have a place outside to walk - do they need grass to eat?
Or hay is enough? Can I leave barn always open?

Pigs need grass outside.
Yes, you can leave the barn open. As long as they have a path outside and a path back inside, it's fine. Even when it's rains (they simply won't go outside).
They'll eat hay when there's no grass or it's winter/raining.

I fence them in, solely because I want the truffles in a given area, and not spread out all over my farm.

The most profitable farm (and craziest) I've seen had nothing but pig farms. I think they said they get like 300 truffles/day.

[Inferius]

https://youtu.be/N-TKHZmnYig
actually this guy doesn't put grass on ground. Hay is enough.

Uhhh I am at early winter now..

[Colonel Whiplash]

Pigs are one of the animals that don't NEED grass, but is better off having grass if you use almost all of your farm. The mood buff that it has over the hay is not important if you don't care about it, but I still prefer having grass for them because hay is ridiculously expensive if you don't have space for wild grass. Besides, it's pretty easy to just let the grass out grow the pigs' need in their pen anyways, so unless you don't like the look of the grass or something, there really isn't a reason not to give them grass over hay

[Flash]

This might be a year late, but for anyone still looking for an answer, If you pickup the skills Artisan (Farming Skill), Botanist & Gatherer (Foraging skill), then dont build a coop (except to complete a bundle if need be)... go for the barn. Once your done with bundles, recommend buying pigs as they are the most profitable of all animals regardless of the 28 days lost in winter

At max hearts, considering winter for pigs and 1 milk every 2 days for goats (1 year calculation):

1. 6 Pigs With 60% multiple truffle lay chance and 20% multiple foraging chance (84 days since no winter)
= (967.68 truffles iridium * 1250 truffle price) = $1,209,600
2. 6 Pigs at 84 days (Assuming only 1 truffle per pig per day = 6 per day)
= (504 truffles iridium * 1250 truffle price) = $630,000

3. 6 Cows with Iridium Large milk (112 days)
= 672 * 380 = $255,360
4. 6 Cows with Iridium Cheese (Did not take 7 days gold to cheese aging into consideration)
= 672 * 560 = $376,320

5. 6 Sheep with Iridium Wool (Considering Ranching profession, so every day we get wool)
= 672 * 816 = $548,352
*Not going to consider cloth conversion since it has no iridium quality and hence worse than iridium wool

6. 6 Goat with Iridium Cheese (112/2 = 56 days since 1 goat milk every 2 days)
= 336 cheese per year *1050 Iridium cheese price = $352,800

Conclusion:
Profitability wise -->
Pigs (truffle oil or truffle alone) > Sheep (wool) > Cows > Goats

EVEN if you negate a few days for rain and/or just let them out with only hay feed, pigs trump in every way compared to other animals even at 4 out of 5 hearts. Best if used with skills mentioned above. Remember, I have not even considered aging or cheese making times for others. Even without considering that, pig truffle alone trumps others