Farming Simulator 22: Animals - how to buy? FS 22 guide, tips
This page of the Farming Simulator 22 guide describes how to buy, transport and sell animals.
Last update: 24 November 2021
This page describes the process of purchasing, transporting and unloding the animals in Farming Simulator 22. You will learn how to purchase animals from the Animal Dealer, unload them at your pasture or farm house and how to sell animals.
- Animal Transporting Trailer
- Animal Shop
- Unloading the animals
- Trading directly from the farm house
- Management
Animal Transporting Trailer
There are two ways to buy and sell animals: by buying a trailer for transporting animals (it's a big investment in the base game, as aside for horses, the only trailer available to transport cattle, sheep and pigs is the Wilson Trailer Silverstar for the price of 80 000 Euro).
It requires a truck tractor or a trolley attachable to the tractor to serve as an "adapter" of sorts. Purchasing the trailer could be very profitable, but only if you intend to breed animals to later sell them.
Drive to the animal trading point, which is marked on the map with a blue cow head, with your trailer prepared. Park on the paw marker and open the trading menu. Here you can buy and sell animals.
The trailer should come in handy for one more purpose - organising animals if you own more than one farm house / pasture. You'll be able to move animals between your facilities, to free up space or to organise them better.
Animal Shop
In the shop you can buy sheep, pigs, horses and cows. Their species and appearance doesn't matter, but their age, and hence the price, does. Young animals won't cost you much, but they can't breed until reaching a specific age. They also produce significantly less goods (milk / wool) until they grow up. Younger specimens require much less resources though. If you're not in a hurry to produce goods, you can just feed them and wait for them to grow up, without needing to look up on them too often.
The oldest specimens are the most expensive. They're already fattened and can be sold for meat. Sometimes it's worth to wait though: old specimens could be incredibly productive when producing goods, they could also require less food as they no longer grow. Their breeding time remains the same.
Unloading the animals
After purchasing the animals, set up the trailer by the pasture / barn where you want to hold them and unload them by parking on the paw marker. Remember, it's the trailer that must be on the marker, not the tractor.
If you don't intend to trade animals often, you can just rent the trailer from the store from time to time instead of buying it outright.
The trailer could also come in handy for moving animals between your facilities, if you have more than one. It's important because you always need space for new litters - if newly born animals don't have space to spawn in the building, they won't spawn at all, and the animals will enter the next breeding period.
Trading directly from the farm house
The second option of purchasing animals - and the only option to buy hens - is buying/selling directly from the pasture/facility. It's done exactly the same way you perform simple operations from the management menu - enter the shopping menu and choose the last option on the list - then select "animal dealer" and the building in question that you own.
The main difference in this method is the fact that you'll be charged with additional transporting costs, as you're not handling the transport on your own - this applies both to purchasing and selling. The animals will be transported immediately though.
Management
You can monitor the animals' condition - breeding, needs, produced goods - in the menu. Click on the cow icon tab to view the summary panel. You can't trade animals here, but you can check their age, needs and price. Switch between buildings and animal groups to learn of their condition.
The Health indicator decreases when animals' needs are not met (e.g. lack of food). When health declines, the animal's productivity and reproduction will keep declining until it recovers health (when the needs are met). If animals have poor health, their value decreases - if you want to sell animals, do it while they are in good health. Animals do not die even if you do not take care of them and their health drops to level 0.