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# Animals
Hens, sheep, cows, goats, pigs and bees.
     
Nobody starts with animals. The pens on your farm stand empty until you have earned Hollis's trust, and every kind after the first hen costs more and asks more of you.
## Keeping them
Feed them once a day and they keep producing. Neglect them and they stop. Pet them and they warm to you, and an animal that trusts you gives more.
Produce arrives on its own schedule, not whenever you walk past, and only one lot waits at a time. An animal left for a week has one egg, not fifty.
## What they give
    
Hens lay eggs. Cows give milk, which the kitchen needs more than anything else. Sheep give wool. Bees give honey, once you have built them a hive.
Goats and pigs give nothing day to day. They are raised for meat.
## The decision
A grown animal that trusts you can be taken for meat, and it does not come back. Meat is worth more than almost anything else in the game, especially cooked.
But a laying hen is worth more laying. Working out which animals to keep and which to take is the point of the whole system.
Animals lean on cooking, so a farmer who never cooks will hit a ceiling here.
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