Rare Animal Breeding Secrets

Have you ever wondered how some of your high level Farmville friends get their farms filled with the rarest breeds? Why it seems like they have an advantage over you when it comes to collecting gifts? While they may consider this a trade secret all it takes is a little bit of work and a small change to the way you publish items you find on your farm.

The first thing you need to do is find some breeders, start by looking through your current friends to see if anyone has a good collection of rare animals. If not head over to the Zynga forums and post in the "Looking for Neighbors" thread. Make sure you include that you are looking for "High Level Breeders" or "Rare Animal Breeders" when posting there.  If your not sure how to do that take a look at this thread Getting more neighbors in Farmville for more information.

Once you have four or five breeders for friends it is time to do a little bit of work that will pay off greatly in the future. Send them each a personal message and explain that if you get any rare breeds out of your Nursery, Dairy or Stables you will send it out to just them. In exchange for them doing the same for you. Basically you are making some good connections with fellow breeders and setting up a common interest group. You can even take this a step farther and setup a private Facebook group so you can all communicate together. You may even want to refer them to this post so they can see how it works and what they will need to do to ensure you get their animals.

Now, you may be wondering how can you possibly guarantee them that they will be the ones who receive your rare breeds? After all, it is common for gifts to be gone the instant they hit the news feed right? Well hang on cause here is a super secret tip the rare animal breeders do not want the masses knowing.

It is possible to send any post to one specific person or group instead of to all of your friends! There are two ways to do this, either by sending the item to one specific person, or by creating a new friends list inside of Facebook and sending to just that list. And you may be surprised just how easy it is.

First let's look at how to send an item to a single person instead of to your entire friends list. Whenever you find a collectible on your farm, complete a ribbon or some animal wanders by you get a pop-up window alerting you about it and asking you to share. When you click the Share button a Facebook window appears where you can click Submit and send it out. Before you click on the submit button try the following;

Next to the Submit button there is a tiny Security Lock, click on it and you will see these options

• Everyone
• Friends of Friends
• Friends only
• Customize

Choose Customize from the list and another window will appear showing you the options available. Under the "Make this post visible to" section is a drop down menu, if you choose "Specific People" a small text box will appear allowing you to type in someones name. Fill in the desired reciepents name and then click Save. (You can choose to make this the default however it is recommended that you leave "Everyone" as the default)

Back to the Publish window you will find that it has changed and should now be showing just that friends name in the upper right hand corner. Click on the Publish button and viola! They are the only person capable of receiving the rare animal. You may want to send them a private message alerting them of the post so they do not miss it.

Believe it or not, this small tip is how the best breeders work. They setup a coalition with each other and just send the rare animals back and forth maximizing their ability to earn coins and experience.

Now, you can expand on this if you want. Lets say that you have a breeder coalition with 20 people in it. What you want to do is first create a sub list inside of Facebook and put each of them into it.

To create a new list click on Friends in the upper right hand corner while logged into Facebook. On the next screen you should see a button that says "+ Create a list" click on that and a smaller window will appear. In the upper right hand corner is a place for you to name your new list. Try to use something easy to remember like "Breeders" or "Coalition" something that you will be able to recall easily. Once you have named this list, go through your friends and highlight anyone who you want to be on it. Then click Save.

Sending to this list works the exact same way as sending to one person with a slight change. After selecting "Specific People" from the drop down, type in the name of your list instead of a persons name. This will publish your post to anyone on this list giving them all equal chances to receive the rare animal.

Getting your building raising done in record time

While having a lot of Farmville neighbors can get your raising's done quickly, occasionally one will slip through and you may find yourself having a hard time getting them done at all. I like to use this little trick when things like that happen. You can use this with any raising request really, storage, chicken coupes or nurseries.

First you will need to find the original post on your wall. Login to Facebook and click the "Profile" link in the upper right hand corner. You will find yourself at your wall, scroll down until you find the raising you want to finish, it should look something like this;

Look for your building raising post, it should look like this.

Once you have located your request for help post you will need to right click the "Click here to help" link located in the lower right corner. (The black squiggles are pointing at it). Right click on this link and choose "Copy Link Location" from the menu.

Next start a new status update in Facebook, preface it with some text along the lines of "Please help with my raising" then right click and paste the copied link into the status bar, click Share.

This will paste your request link as your status, the bonus to doing this is how Facebook processes the news feed. Like posts are grouped together under one entry, so typically you will find all the Farmville posts hidden under one post. While custom hand written status messages are all displayed individually. By pasting the building request in as a personal status update Facebook gives it more prominence in the news feed. Giving it more exposure and helping you finish the building raising faster.

Trick to adopting lots of animals in Farmville.

Due to the way Facebook groups up relevant posts it can some times be hard to find and adopt lost animals. This is hindered by some people having so many friends that the adoption happens almost immediately. One thing you can always do is actually go and look at your friends wall in Facebook.

If you look directly at their wall you will see each and every post they made, including any lost animals up for adoption! In order to see a friends wall in Facebook all you need to do is click their name, it is easiest to use the search bar at the top of the Facebook page. Simply start typing their name and you should the results popping up as you type. Once you are on their wall start scrolling down and look for any animals that wondered onto their farm looking for a home.

This trick works best if you have a lot of neighbors as it increases the chances of finding a lost animal. Another bonus is that you may come across Mystery Eggs, Fuel or even a Bonus reward while your looking!