To increase your profit/space ratio use the two dairy method:
You needs:
2 Dairies
20 Milk Cows
x Seed Cows

1) Place the milk cows in dairy1 and the seed cows in no dairy leaving dairy2 empty.
2) Wait one day dairy1 should be ready and so should your seed cows.
3) Harvest dairy1.
4) Add a seed cow to dairy2 making it ready.
5) Move all but one milk cow to dairy2 from dairy1.
6) Remove the seed cow from dairy2.
7) Move the last milk cow to dairy2 from dairy1. Harvest dairy2.
9) Continue this proceeds till you are out of seed cows.

Here is the premise in order to do this with one dairy at some point in time you need to have one empty dairy (30 small squares) 20 milk cows(20*4=80 small squares) and x seed cows (x*4= 4x small squares) all placed on the farm at one time. Therefore the working space required for this method is 30+80+4x=110+4x. By adding a second dairy and holding the milk cows in it when they aren’t in the dairy they will be milked in we can cut down the second part of the above space calculation from 80(the space the milking cows occupy when removed from the dairy) to 30 (the space of the second dairy we will use for holding them). Thus the space requirement is dropped to 30+30+4x=60+4x.

1 dairy space required = 110+4x small squares
2 dairy space required = 60+4x small squares
profit per day = (x+1)*val

val is the single harvest value of your milk cows so using 20 pink or green cows as milk cows gives a single harvest value of 20*18=360 so val=360.

1 dairy profit per small square per day = ((x+1)*val)/(110+4x)
2 dairy profit per small square per day = ((x+1)*val)/(60+4x)

so for profit/space efficiency
using 20 pink or green cows as milk cows you only need
4 seed cows to beat olive trees using the 1 dairy method you need 8.
7 seed cows beats swans using the 1 dairy method you need 12.
14 seed cows beats acai using the 1 dairy method you need 25.

At this point though I hadn’t actually played the game, but I didn’t really think it could be all that complicated. I figured I should give it a shot though, just so that I could say I knew what I was talking about. And I was in for a rather big surprise. In no time, I was out of money and had no crops to plant. I have to admit, there way more to this game than I had anticipated.

I eventually managed to dig myself out of my original hole and out of the red, but I still wasn’t making all that much progress. I started to think that maybe I needed to see what these guides were all about. I wasn’t really expecting much, but since I hadn’t done so well on my own either, I figured it was worth a shot.
Do You Really Need a Guide For FarmVille?
So I picked up a guide called FarmVille secrets, and was pleasantly surprised by the tips I found in it. You wouldn’t think there were so many ways you could screw up a virtual farm, but believe me, you can. I was still stumbling along at level 6 when I got the guide after 2 weeks of playing regularly. Now I’m the proud owner of a plantation and a level 26 Sultan of Soil. And I still look back at my guide from time to time. If you’re having trouble getting into the swing of things in FarmVille, this guide is not a bad investment.

How to Get the Most Ribbons in FarmVille

Know What You Need

You won’t be able to focus your energies on earning ribbons unless you know what you need to get them. You can find this information easily enough by clicking on the ribbon icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen. This will bring up a list of all of the possible ribbons and show you how you’re progressing in each category.

Pick One

You do have limited resources, particularly when you’re just starting out in FarmVille. Because of this, it’s a good idea to focus on one type of ribbon at a time. Of course, it’s likely that whatever you do to earn those ribbons will help you to earn some other ones as well, but you can focus on those when you get to them.

Which to Pick

Before you decide which set of ribbons to go after first, you should take a few moments to learn what each ribbon category is about. This way, you’ll be able to get a good sense of which ribbons to go for first. For example, the Tree Hugger ribbons require that you harvest fruit from a particular number of unique trees, meaning that to get these, you’ll have to have a variety of different types of trees on your farm.

The Knock on Wood ribbons can be earned by simply harvesting any type of tree a certain number of times. This means that if you focus on earning the Tree Hugger ribbons, you’ll automatically be making progress towards the Knock on Wood ribbons as well. The converse is not necessarily true because you could get the Knock on Wood ribbon for harvesting from only one kind of tree.

Get Some Neighbors

Neighbors help you get ribbons both directly and indirectly. There are ribbons for just having a certain number of neighbors, how many times you help your neighbors out, and how many different types of gifts you receive. All of these categories are easier to progress in the more neighbors you have, so don’t hesitate to hit up your friends and earn some ribbons that way too.

How to Get the Most Ribbons in FarmVille

Expand Slowly

You want to get the most out of your land when you’re working in FarmVille. This means that you’ll want to clear a substantial amount of land so that you can plant as many crops as possible. You do have to be careful about how much land you clear at once though. It costs 15 coins to clear one plot of land, so if you clear too many at once, you won’t have any coins left to buy the seeds you want to plant.

Getting Started in FarmVille

It’s best to slowly expand your plowed plots of land so that you’re always able to take full advantage of their planting potential. After each harvest, it’s a good idea to replant on all of your current plots first. Once you’ve done this it will be much easier to figure out how much more land you can afford to clear this time around. Following this pattern will quickly allow you to expand your farm while ensuring that you always have enough money to plant on all of your cleared plots.

Plan Your Harvests

Another aspect of FarmVille that it can be tough to get the hang of at first is timing your harvests right. Each crop you plant in the game will take a particular amount of time to mature. Once a crop is mature, you can harvest it. But don’t wait too long. If you don’t get back in time, your crops will wither and you’ll just have to plow the land again and start over. It’s important to plan your plantings so that you’ll be able to get back to check on your farm before this happens.

One of the great things about FarmVille is that you can take it as seriously as you want to take it. If you only want to log in once a week, that’s fine. Just make sure you plant crops that will last that long. Once you start playing though, it’s not likely you’ll be able to stay away for very long.

Getting Started in FarmVille

How to Make the Most Money in FarmVille

These costs are easily managed of course because you’re harvesting and selling your crops for more than it cost to plant them. There are a lot of other items you can buy in the FarmVille market to decorate and build up your farm, and you won’t be able to get these without some significant sums of cash. Buying these items will also get you some much needed experience points to help you advance to the next level, so you’ll have to find a way to make sure you have enough money for all the discretionary items you want to buy.

Earnings Per Hour in FarmVille

Because you’ll be needing your coins for so much in FarmVille, you need to maximize the earning potential of your farm. The best way to do this is to figure out which crops pay out the most coins per hour. For example, strawberries sell for 35 coins per plot of land harvested and they take 4 hours to grow. Pumpkins, on the other hand, take 8 hours to grow and sell for 68 coins per plot of land harvested.

That means, for the same acreage planted, you’ll earn 8.75 coins per hour by planting strawberries, while the pumpkins will only get you 8.5 coins per hour. This may seem like a small difference, but these small amounts can add up fast. Of course, you won’t be getting your money’s worth unless you can harvest the crops as soon as they’re ready and immediately replant on that land.

A Quick Turnaround in FarmVille

If you’re not going to be able to get back to your farm for 8 hours, you’re much better off planting the pumpkins. The longer you leave a crop after it’s done maturing, the less you’ll be getting per hour once you harvest it. You can only make money fast on crops that mature quickly if you’re going to be able to harvest and replant as soon as they’re ready for sale. Make sure you take these details into consideration when you’re selecting your seeds at the Market, and you’ll be seeing your bank account swelling in no time.

How to Make the Most Money in FarmVille

Finding and adding neighbors is one of the fastest ways to level up in Farmville. You need 50 friends to obtain the Local Celebrity blue ribbon which gives you 10,000 coin and 100xp. However, having plenty of Farmville neighbors has many other advantages as well. The more neighbors you have the more gifts you can receive, the more you will benefit by getting a bonus when they receive awards, and the more opportunities you will have to help your neighbors toward the Good Samartian ribbons. Plus, having friends in the game is just fun!

Unfortunately, adding people you don’t know in Facebook also exposes your personal information, your profile, and your status updates. It wouldn’t be very difficult for someone to pretend to play the game, get added as your friend, and steal all of your personal information and invade your privacy.

You should strongly consider following my 10 easy steps for protecting your Facebook profile before you add a single person you don’t know:

1. From your Facebook main page, click on the “Account” button in the upper right-hand side of the page and select “Edit Friends” in the dropdown box.
2. Select the “+Create” link on the bottom left-hand side of the page below Lists. If you don’t see the “+Create” link, click on the “All Connections” link on the upper left-hand side and you will see a link for “Create New List” in the upper-middle area. You should see a new window. Title your new list, “Farmville friends”, “Farmville neighbors” or whatever you want to call it. Select “Create List”.
3. After you have created your new list, click on the “Account” button again in the upper right-hand side of the page and select the dropdown for “Privacy Settings”.
4. Now you should see the Privacy Settings page. Select “Profile Information”.
5. Select the dropdown box for each option and select “Custom”.
6. Once you have selected “Custom” you should see a new window. At the bottom it should read, “Hide this from”. In the box in this window type the name of the list you created in Step 3 and select the list.
7. Repeat this process for every option on the page EXCEPT “Posts by Me” or your Farmville neighbors will not be able to see your updates when you share your awards, ribbons, lost animals, etc.
8. Once you have customized every option on the Profile Information page, click “Back to Privacy” on the upper left-hand side to return to the Privacy Settings page.
9. Now select the link for “Contact Information” and repeat steps 6-8 for every option on the Contact Information page.

Congratulations, you are finished! Very Important: Whenever you add a new friend for Farmville before you confirm them, select the “Add To List…” dropdown and select the name of your list (chosen in Step 3). You must put them on this list for this to work!

If you want to test and make sure it works, click on the “Preview My Profile…” link on the upper right-hand side of the Privacy Settings>Profile Information or Contact Information pages.

First off, lets start with some basic information:

But first first, some basic information to help you understand this basic information:

xx% represent any percentage value, ranging from 0-100, of any single cow.

yy% represents any percentage value, ranging from 0-100, of any DF.

DF stands for dairy farm… but I’m sure you could have figured that out.

Simple enough, so here’s how it works.

An empty DF counts the FIRST cow placed inside as its yy%. So place your highest xx% cow in first.

xx% cow into an empty DF, yy% becomes equal to xx%

xx% cow into yy% DF, DF stays at yy%

Any cow removed from yy% DF, cow resets to 0%. DF stays at yy%

Also note that an empty DF denotes a farm that has NO COWS (0/20), not a farm that is at 0%. This is very important.

Now, on to how we can use this information.

Re-harvesting cows: Harvesting a cow that is out in the open, and then placing it into a 100% DF and harvesting the farm. The cow you just placed in the farm will be harvested again, along with any others in the farm. Thus, re-harvested. Best used for pink, brown, and now, green cows.

This process can be repeated many many many…many times (as many times as you have 100% cows).

For best results, leave several regular cows out in the open so they can mature to 100%, along with any other cows that you plan to re-harvest. These regular cows will be used to reset your DF to 100%, so DONT harvest them! Simply place one of these matured cows into an empty DF, followed by 19 other, preferably 0% cows, and collect. You can then remove all 20 cows from that DF, and place another matured cow inside. Rinse and repeat as desired… Or until your finger falls off.

Yes, this process is a bit slow and click-heavy, but it will pay off. Even the rather expensive green cows (which I strongly suggest your run out and buy 19 of) will quickly pay for themselves with proper dedication to this technique. If you happen to have a whole farm worth of pink or even brown cows, well then, hay, you have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

But wait, there’s more! Aside from the prospect of nearly endless supplies of coins, re-harvested cows also count towards your zoologist ribbon. Every time you collect from a dairy farm, you get 20 harvests towards the ribbon, which adds up quick.

OKAY. hopefully this will help some of you get the most out of these dairy farms, and farm to the fullest. But as long winded as it was, I’m sure there are some details I left out, so I’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Happy farming!

Farmville Mystery Eggs Guide

The mystery eggs, calves, and lost animals found on your farm, as well as eggs found in your neighbors’ coops, are only for your neighbors, not for you. If you want to hatch an egg or adopt an animal, go to Facebook Home page, find your neighbors’ FarmVille posts and click the included links or icons. You will get a response (either positive or too late).

Each item posted to the FB wall can be claimed by up to 5 neighbors. The prizes from the egg on the same post differ. Ask your neighbors to acknowledge what they got. Some became lazy and don’t bother to thank even though they took the prize.

Starting with February 9 the Mystery Eggs loot changed as follows:

Premium White Mystery Egg

• Chicken
• Brown Chicken
• Common collection item
• 1/5 Fuel Refill

Uncommon Brown Mystery Egg

• Brown Chicken
• Black Chicken
• 20 XP
• 1 Fuel Refill

Rare Black Mystery Egg

• Black Chicken
• Golden Chicken
• Uncommon collection item
• 10 Fuel Refills

Treasured Golden Mystery Egg

• Golden Chicken
• Black Cottage
• Gold Gnome
• Grain Silo
• Pink Cottage
• Rare collection item
• 20 Fuel Refills

White chickens => white or brown chickens
Brown chickens => brown or black chickens
etc. etc. etc….

Gold chickens give also other things than gold chickens. But chickens come from eggs. Also in FV!

You can also get a black cottage and a grain silo, yes the different color chickens need to be in the coop, and unfortunatley all i ever get is another chicken.

I don’t know anymore, please tell me so I can add to the list, thank you

Farmville Collectables List Guide and How to get them?

Some of you will never get some specific collection items. For example, I have never get any Cowbell or Twine, but lots of Centipedes, although I have 80 cows in 4 Dairy Farms, and about 40 Sheep  Perhaps Zynga wants us to share collections before getting them.

If this were the case then it would make more sense if they would let us actually share the ones we collect and have in abundance….that way we can get them out of our gift boxes too and make room! lol I’ve got a bunch of green feathers and hen feathers that I cannot “use” and have to leave in my gift box (or sell/delete) because I already have the maximum of 10 in my collectibles…..and cannot trade those in until I can actually obtain the 1 missing collectible in that set….which seems to be almost impossible at least for the last couple days.

Gardening Tools

* Gloves are a Common that is found via Gifting
* Trowel is a Common that is found via Plowing
* Cultivator is a Common that is found via Fertilizing
* Twine is a Uncommon that is found via Harvesting Sheep
* Pruning Saw is a Uncommon that is found via Harvesting Trees
* Shears is a Rare that is found via Fertilizing

Country Kitsch

* Needlepoint is a Common that is found via Gifting
* Spigot is a Common that is found via Plowing
* Pocket-watch is a Common that is found via Plowing
* Salt Shaker is a Uncommon that is found via Plowing
* Thimble is a Uncommon that is found via Plowing
* Cow Bell is a Rare that is found via Harvesting Cows

Bugs

* Ladybug is a Common that is found via Fertilizing
* Dragonfly is a Common that is found via Gifting
* Caterpillar is a Common that is found via Harvesting Trees
* Stickbug is a Uncommon that is found via Harvesting Trees
* Beetle is a Uncommon that is found via Fertilizing
* Centipede is a Rare that is found via Plowing

Feathers

* Green Plume is a Common that is found via Gifting
* Hen Feather is a Common that is found via Harvesting Chickens
* Dapple Plume is a Common that is found via Harvesting Ducks
* Red Feather is a Uncommon that is found via Fertilizing
* Banded Quill is a Uncommon that is found via Harvesting Turkeys and Geese
* Blue Feather is a Rare that is via Harvesting Trees

Emperor: the current giftable.
Painted: Fertilizing neighbors
Blue: harvesting trees
Swallowtail: Fertilizing neighbors
Zebra: harvesting trees
Copper: harvesting trees

All collectibles can be gotten by fast clicking from the feed. Sometimes from eggs. Swallowtail and Zebra are uncommon, copper is rare, all those when found are found as a stash, and can be shared.

Watch Out Guide for the Massive Free Farmville Item Fake Groups!

The point of this Guide is to help members of Farmville from being abused by this massive net of fake groups that offer major things for free, just for joining and inviting your friends for them, to help you all to not be scammed or used in any way.

Anyway, most of the groups out there, almost 95% of them are fakes, especially when the only option you can do is invite friends and not comment in any way on the site.

Yes it is hard to work out the fakes from the real ones, but usually the real ones will have a discussion where they will explain in detail how to get the item, not this bull that says

1. Become a member
2. Invite All your Friends
3. Once 33% of your friuends join you will rcieve the item
or
they may say for the final section any of the following.

1. if you do not invite friends you will not get ……
2. over half of your friends must join.
3. Please wait up to 1 day for …. to be applied
4. Please wait up to 72 hours for …..
etc

usually all of the groups that do that are fakes. I truely real group that can do what it says, will not be losing anything from having a certain amount of 1 persons friends joining. They would be happy for you just to invite anyone to get the word around and ofcourse if it did work, you would natually invite all your friends to tell them.

So that’s about it. Oh there are 2 more ways to locate the scam groups.
1st: If it is a group that has approxiamtely 4 comments saying things like “WOW, I cannot believe this works, thanks heaps”, “This works, 100% Will you marry me” etc, usually up to 4 wow statements saying that it works from fake friends names they create. The way tro know this site is look above those commonets to where you should see something like:

10,108 Comments.

Click that and just read the top 2, they will all say, I haven’t got it, where do i find it, this doesn’t work etc.

The 2nd fake group I was going to mention, is where no matter where you go to click on the website it only takes you to 1 single option, forced invite friends section. even the instructions where ity will say after inviting all your friends, click the below link, well even if you invite all your friends, you click that link and wow, your back at the invite screen, click on comments and invite screen etc.

I have also noticed some that are geting paid to make these groups by advertisers that have created bots for farmville. These things usually costs around $6.00 – $8.99, these groups will advertise this item, where you purchase a program that makes clicking on farmville easier, also going to all your friends, harvesting etc.

The creators of these bots, pay the creators of these groups 0.50 cents to $1.00 per single sale they get, now if you think of how many members the groups has, usually over 50,000, if just 50 of those people buy that item, that group scammer just made himself approx $50.00.

Alot of people haven’t noticed much of these links getting added to all these fake groups, but many have them and they are increasing, I know as some groups I joined just to report them for being fakes, didn’t have the purchasing links and now they do, so think about all of the above before thinking you can get so much farmville items for free.

PS: Sorry about this being so long, I just thought I would mention all of this to help innocent people, not get scammed. Thanks and to everyone, please take care when playing on facebook, there re many people here just aching to take you for a ride, not that facebook is a bad place, just that it is made up of human beings, and some just love to do these things for enjoyment, as they are sadistic horrible people, or just have nothing better to do. I just keep to my main games and my personal friends and have gotten over the free fake groups and am happy to wait for it when Zygna finally makes it available or get it the true way, I suggest you all to do the same.

PSS: I thought I would mention how come there are players out there that do have mutliple amounts of chicken coops and why we cannot get any. Basically all the people that have got over 2 chicken coops were able to take advantage of a simple error in the gaming programming. These are called Glitches, it is simply an abuse of a minor problem where people have found ways or by using a set proceedure, they are able to duplicate an item as many times as they wish. Although these glitches are out there in basically every game, people are using it to thier advantage, which is basically an abuse of the system. I do not believe that once Zygna has finished with all the game fixes that all these players will be allowed to keep these multiple items, and may quite possibly end up banned for it, although my thoughts on this is not 100% correct, but I am using common sense that Zygna is not going to allow heaps of players to continue abusing Farmville to be able to get themselves ahead of the rest of the true gamers that do things honostly, by means that are not really legal, and I feel that Zygna wants to ensure every single player has the right to have the same chances as every other player and not to allow those who can abuse the system to get away with it. But we will see what will happen to those who have got these 6 chicken coops or other items once Zygna has got around to dealing with this issue. So I advise everyone to not get involved with these groups and to just stick to regular true gaming. I hope you head my warnings and be careful out there, but please do not let it stop you from enjoying yourself, just keep your eye’s wide open. Take Care and Thanks for Your Time.