Animals (Harvest Moon: Hero of Leaf Valley)

There are 4 types of available animals to raise on your farm in Sugar Valley. Cows, chickens, a horse and a dog can all come to live on your farm and will all provide you with a myriad of benefits.

Chickens
These are your standard Harvest Moon farmland fowls. If you played any previous HM titles, they will be no surprise. They can be left out on sunny or cloudy nights and lay one egg in the morning as usual. You can buy a fully grown chicken from the Farm Store for 500G, or if you don't mind waiting the extra week you can buy an egg from the supermarket and pop it in the incubator from day one. Chickens take three days to hatch and a full week to mature. They can eat chicken feed or Alfalfa. Eggs sell for 50G each, and golden eggs for a whopping 150G.

Cows
Cows in Sugar Valley are also pretty by the books. They require sunlight, brushing, talking and milking daily. They can be left out overnight on sunny or cloudy days. Cows can be purchased from the Farm Store for 2500G and take about a week before they'll start giving milk. They can give birth if given a 'cow seed', as well


 * Milk S - 130G Milk M - 200G Milk L - 300G Milk G - 400G

The Horse
There are two ways to attain your horse. The first is to buy a brown horse from the farm store for 5000G. The second way is on Summer 2nd when Bob shows up at your house. He'll have with him the horse that has the most affection for you if you worked at Brownie ranch. One way to ensure you get the color you like is to brush only the color horse you like the most and neglect the others. Horses eat either fodder or Alfalfa, and to be left outdoors on sunny or cloudy days. Once your horse lets you ride it, you can use it for a quick mode of transport around town. The speed he goes depends on his friendship level with you. You can just his heart levels in your diary.

Horse Heart levels

 * 0 - 0~29
 * 1 - 3-~79
 * 2 - 80~139
 * 3 - 140~199
 * 4 - 200~239
 * 5 - 240~255

Horse affection conditions

 * Talk - +1
 * Brush - +3
 * Call with whistle - +1
 * Leave outside for 24 in sunny or cloud weather - +7
 * Feed with fodder while he stays inside the barn - +2
 * Feed with Alfalfa while he stays inside the barn - +6
 * Forget to feed him while he stays inside the barn - -10
 * Wish for horse friendship from the Goddess - +5
 * Hit with any tool - -20

Dog
The dog is attained in much of the same way as it is in the original Save the Homeland game. Every morning put a nice type of food (Very Berry, Egg, milk, etc.) in the dog's bowl outside of your house. After about a week, try and pick up one of the dogs that always seem to be running around your farm. You'll then be prompted with a message asking whether or not you'd like to keep this dog as a pet. You'll have a choice of a dog with round ears and red scarf, or pointy ears and a blue scarf. Your new canine friend needs to be fed daily and taken inside on rainy days, unless of course you've built a dog house. After he's caught, you can feed him anything you like.


 * His heart levels and most of his affection conditions are for the most part the same as the horse.