Changes

In the winter, snow covers the grass completely, making grazing impossible. Therefore, it is advisable to use the scythe to cut some or all of the grass into hay before the end of the fall season to ensure enough reserve hay to feed your animals through the winter. It is generally considered a good practice to build a silo and begin storing hay even before building your first coop or barn.

In the winter, snow covers the grass completely, making grazing impossible. Therefore, it is advisable to use the scythe to cut some or all of the grass into hay before the end of the fall season to ensure enough reserve hay to feed your animals through the winter. It is generally considered a good practice to build a silo and begin storing hay even before building your first coop or barn.

====Grass & Hay====

====Tending to Feeding====

Farm animals prefer fresh grass to hay, and become "very happy today!" (the best mood) upon eating fresh grass. However, if you pet them for the first time each day after they have eaten grass, their mood resets to a lower level. So it is good to open the gates of a [[Coop]] or [[Barn]] early in the day, to allow your animals to come outside and eat [[grass]], but only after you have petted them first. Even so, they will not go out in winter, or when it is rainy, stormy, or snowy. Animals that remain inside or do not find grass to eat, eat hay instead, if it is available.

Farm animals prefer fresh grass to hay, and become "very happy today!" (the best mood) upon eating fresh grass. However, if you pet them for the first time each day after they have eaten grass, their mood resets to a lower level. So it is good to open the gates of a [[Coop]] or [[Barn]] early in the day, to allow your animals to come outside and eat [[grass]], but only after you have petted them first. Even so, they will not go out in winter, or when it is rainy, stormy, or snowy. Animals that remain inside or do not find grass to eat, eat hay instead, if it is available.