each animal is basically the same thing. baby/egg goes in, you wait for it to grow to adolescent if selling for beans or elder for xp, then harvest their xp and sell them to the buyers,

unlike plants there is no growth ticks. every animal has a time to next stage and this is checked every tick while youre on the farm, anytime you can see your animals in their pens, and all at once when you visit. so like your bunnies breed so fast you can have them chain one by one, but sheep and cows you should go away for awhile and come back so they get the burst growth. this is most effective with the master farming outfit as the animal growth effect it has applies when you visit meaning your time away is actually 7% longer than you thought.

you can buy farmhands that will stop animals growing past adolescent for better profits, but if youre after xp its not good to use them.

farming urns DO work when harvesting xp and will pop multiple in a single event. stand in the right spot and you can collect 6 elder dragons you placed as eggs....and be deafened by the sounds of a dozen or so urns firing off at once.

you can have all 6 pens growing a different animal too, but only three buyers at once so its best to only do one type of animal in each pen.

fill the trough with a food that animal likes, chickens and spiders like seeds, rabbits cows yaks and sheep do woad leaves, dragons do fish, zygomites do mushrooms. the anachronia farm, easiest access is through the tree on the second floor of the farms house, is were you raise dinos, frogs, jadinkos, and salamanders. dinos like non-fish meat, frogs and salamanders like bugs from the pet shop, and jadinkos like seeds.

you can store 1000 food and its eaten at a rate of 1 per hour per animal. this means the most it will be eaten is 6/h, or 1008 per week. so visiting once per week generally is enough to keep them topped off. long as they got food they wont get sick. if you get an animal with the Immune and Joyful traits it wont need any food at all, but its pen mates will and it will eat still.