Breeding animals | Buildings Banished Guide

Animals grant you access to valuable food. You can breed them on pastures - in Banished you can take care of three types of animals:

• Cattle - lets you produce beef and leather necessary to make coats;
• Sheep give you some delicious muffin and wool that you need to make coats;
• Chickens are a source of chicken and eggs.

A pasture after a plague is not a pleasant view.

The number of animals on a pasture is determined by its size:

- one cow needs 20 units of area;

- one sheep needs 16 units of area;

- one chicken needs only 6 units of area.

Assuming that maximum size of a pasture is 20x20 (400 units of area), on a single pasture you can have at once:

- 20 cows;

- 25 sheep;

- 66 chickens.

Remember that you can have only one type of animals on a single pasture. You can start breeding animals after you buy a trading post - there, with help of merchants, you can buy selected amounts of animals:

Various diseases pose a threat to your animals. In case of a plague, you should move all the animals to another pasture and isolate them until the end of it.

Because you must have a trading post, pastures are recommended for towns that are already developed, after some time they will become a stable source of food, leather and wool.