So... ducks aren't profitable?

[aY227]

^^
Looks like it wasn't best decision to sell top hearts chickens :(

[Gold Dragon]

My Typical Farm Animals:
Coop: 4 Chickens (1 White, 1 Brown, 1 Black (void chicken) and 1 Blue (After Shane's 8 heart event). I found a Rabbit's foot already, so I won't be getting Rabbits in this playthru. May need Ducks, tho.

For the Barn: 2 Cows, (1 Brown, the other White), 2 Goats, 1 sheep, 1 pig. I typically sell one Cow's Milk, and turn the other into cheese. Same with the Goats.

[Hiroko]

Originally posted by aY227:

So feathers can beat mayo quality, interesting.
Basically closer to Artisan you are - better to invest in ducks.

e: now do dinosaurs and void chickens ;p
e2: even if it will be same or almost same ducks wins because of less time consumption.

Dino eggs, while a bigger number, are rare. They average 47.36% less per day.
Dino mayo is between 51.88% less and 70.69% less than chickens per day.
Dino incubator spam roughly 12.5% more than chickens

Void eggs are 31.57% less valuable than chicken eggs
Void mayo is 275 / 330(rancher) / 385(artisan) ............ (slightly better as rancher, barely worse otherwise)
Void incubator spam is exactly the same as regular chickens.

Golden Chicken Eggs are 426.31% more than chickens
Golden Chicken mayo (3x gold mayo) is 200% more but you should only process up to iron quality eggs with Artisan or up to gold quality without.
Golden chicken incubator spam is exactly the same

Ostrich egg is 8.2% more than chicken
Ostrich mayo (10x mayo, keeps quality) is 94.87% more
Ostrich incubator spam is 1233.33% more than chickens

I didn't want another giant wall, so assume those are using maxes. I'm not doing the other animals. xD

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Hiroko:

Total (Mayo+Feather): 270.83/...387.5 or 382/.../539 (Rancher) or 419.5/.../576.5 s.

Hmm.. not sure how you got those numbers.

iridium duck feather is 500g (artisan) 600g(rancher), And I am not convinced it reliably drop every 3 days but let say so..

Feather 500/3 = 166.67 (artisan), 600/3 = 200g (rancher) per day

Duck Mayo is 525g (artisan), 450g (rancher)

Mayp 525/2 = 262.5 (artisan), 225 (rancher) per day

hence Duck artisan 262.5 + 166.67 = 429.2g per day

Duck Rancher 200+225 =425g per day

Chicken artisan Legg Mayo is 399g/day (Rancher 342g/day)



So Artisan duck is only slightly better and only if it reliably drop irridium feather every 3 days which I dare to virtually gurantee it will not (either the quality or timer will not match), it will probably stay better for rancher in most cases, but the difference seems be not very convincing either way.

[red255]

neither chickens nor ducks are worth the labor for the money, but I'll let you find out for yourself joja supporter.

[aY227]

Originally posted by red255:

neither chickens nor ducks are worth the labor for the money, but I'll let you find out for yourself joja supporter.

IIRC from animals pigs were best for profit.
But here it's mostly coop stuff

[Queen Droxxanna]

in my last farm I raised and sold Ostrich's, they are very valuable, once you get eggs incubate them, let them mature and sell for over 20,000 each. If you have 3 grown birds you will have eggs going faster then you can hatch them.

[Volfogg]

By the time I can afford all animals, most of my funds come from the greenhouse. Animals are then there for aesthetics, gifting produce, bundles and filling collection. I usually keep a bit of everything, but it carries risk of cluttering inventory severely with quality eggs, wool, milk and what-not. If I went for max profit, I guess pigs for botanist+truffle or artisan+truffle oil is one way to do it? Or regular chicken -> large egg -> gold quality mayo.