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The Guide to Breeding Ducks

Posted by admin on January 26, 2011 164 comments

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Yellow Duckling Now that you’ve got one or more Duck Ponds teeming with ducks, what else can you do with them? Well, it’s time to start breeding some brand new ones!

Every time you harvest the Duck Pond (once every 24 hours), you have a chance of getting a Yellow or Brown Duckling out of it in addition to the general coin reward for harvesting. The color of the Duckling is determined by what kind of ducks are in your Duck Pond, and the color also determines what kind of ducks can be bred from it. If you just use previous ducks, like the Ugly Duckling or White Swan, you’ll almost always get a Yellow Duckling. If you use a mix of duck types, you may get a Brown Duckling.

You have the option to share this Duckling on your feed:

After this your Duckling will be placed in the Gift Box. You can then choose to place the Duckling on your farm or straight into your Duck Pond at any time from the Gift Box:

Placing the Duckling on your farm will start the breeding process. If you put the Duckling in your Duck Pond, it will stay a Duckling only and the breeding process will be on hold. Once you place the Duckling, a new window will appear (in this case, let’s assume it’s a Yellow Duckling):

Breeding ducks is a factor of both time and friendship. You can see a line of seven (7) Ducks here: the rarity of the Ducks increases as you go from left to right. However, the time you have to breed that kind of duck decreases while the number of friends you need to breed that duck increases (as you go from left to right). Over time you lose the ability to breed certain ducks for that particular Duckling.

Sounds complex? First, here’s a chart to map it all out:

For a Yellow Duckling, in order to get the valuable Indian Runner Duck I need seven (7) neighbors to help me over the next twenty-four (24) hours (the timer starts as soon as I put the Duckling on the farm).

If I only manage to get the help of five (5) neighbors, the best duck I can breed with the Yellow Duckling is the Goldeneye Duck for the next seventy-two (72) hours. However, if I don’t breed the duck within that period, I lose the ability to get the Goldeneye Duck and then the best duck I can get is the Red Billed Duck. A day later if I still don’t breed a duck, the best duck I can get is the Scoter Duck.

Alternatively, let’s say I get a Brown Duckling but can only get two (2) neighbors to help me out. I can only breed the Red Billed Duck or the Goldeneye Duck for the next six (6) days. But if a day passes and four (4) more neighbors help me out, I can still breed the Wood Duck.

To grow the Duck, just find the one you want and click on “Choose” beneath its picture. You’ll get the new duck in your Gift Box:

You can get help from your neighbors by just clicking on the “Ask For Help” button and choosing which neighbors you want to ask. This sends a standard request through the Zynga Message Center (ZMC) which the recipient can easily respond to. You can also choose to speed up the growth process by paying Farm Cash, which will let you breed whatever duck you want that hasn’t already been expired (if pay Farm Cash after two days, you can only breed five of the seven duck types).

After seven days the duck will just grow into the last available duck (the Ugly Duckling for the Yellow Duckling for example); if you’d rather keep the duckling as is you can close the window and you’ll be asked if you just want to keep the Duckling the way it is permanently.
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Farmville Duck Ponds Are Here: Official Guide

Posted by admin on January 12, 2011 44 comments

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Farmville Duck Ponds are released to the limited number of farmers, it is a slow release and rolling out to all farmers.

Here is the official guide by Farmville Community Specialist: Voltai

Sure, ducks are beautiful animals generally (though don’t get me started on the Ugly Duckling), but what’s a little quacking without having a body of water to call home?

Well, that home is now available in FarmVille: the Duck Pond!
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Duck Ponds are constructible buildings that can house up to twenty (20) ducks (or similar animals like swans). You can also customize the look of your Duck Pond by selecting which five ducks you’d like to see on the Pond in your farm. Soon we’ll add the ability to do some fun duck breeding.

Fillin’ up the Pond
You will get the initial frame for the Duck Pond for free the first time you play FarmVille after the update, and you will immediately be entered into Placement Mode. You can place the Duck Pond frame on your farm now, or you can choose to place it in your Gift Box for use later. You must be at least Level 5 to place a Duck Pond.

The Duck Pond is a constructible building, though it will require some different building parts than most of constructible buildings. The full build the Duck Pond you’ll need a grand total of forty (40) parts: twenty (20) Watering Cans and twenty (20) Shovels (you’re digging up a hole in the ground and putting water in it, after all):

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Like other constructible building parts, you can acquire these items by:

Asking your neighbors for these parts by posting a help request to your feed (click on the “Ask For More” button for each type of part).

Give parts to your neighbors via the Free Gifts page or the “Send Gifts” button.

Acquire individual parts by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Buy” button for that particular part). Each part is 1 Farm Cash.

Acquire all needed parts for the building by spending Farm Cash (click on the “Complete Now” button to purchase parts for the rest of the building).

The Cost is X Farm Cash, where X is the amount of parts left needed to finish the building.

Potentially through the use of Special Delivery Boxes.

Using individual parts already available in your Gift Box.

Here’s a partially built and fully constructed Duck Pond:

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If you do not get a Duck Pond initially or wind up deleting (or otherwise losing) it, you can purchase it in the Market (under Buildings -> Animals) for 5,000 coins. Note that you can purchase a fully-built Duck Pond for 40 Farm Cash. If you already have a Duck Pond on your farm, you will not be able to place another Duck Pond (for coins). However, you will be able to place a new, fully built Duck Pond if you buy the Farm Cash version.

Putting the Quack in your Duck Pond
This is what you’ll see when you finish your Duck Pond (you can see this screen at any time by clicking on the Duck Pond and choosing the “Look Inside” option):

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Admittedly an empty Duck Pond is rather placid and boring. It’s time to relocate some ducks! Hopefully you have some on your farm you can move into your Duck Pond, but if you don’t, you can ask your neighbors for ducks by clicking on the Free Gifts page and selecting the Duck:

Some types of ducks will also be available by other means, such as the Market or by a gifting icon in the game.

In this example below we’ll look at how you can re-arrange the look of your Duck Pond on your farm. After I fully built out this Duck Pond, I added ten ducks to it in random fashion:

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There’s a number of Green Mallards and a variety of other ducks. You’ll see that five Green Mallards are standing on the rocks at the bottom of the window, while the rest of the ducks are in the water. Those ducks on the rocks also show up on the pond as you see it on the farm:

I’d rather have some of my more colorful ducks showing up, rather than these five Green Mallards. If I click on a duck on the rock, I can return it to the pond quickly. Then when I click on a duck on the water, I will see this:

Clicking on “Feature” will move that duck over to a rock (if there’s a free rock). If I choose “Remove” I will remove the duck from the Duck Pond (and can then put it back on the farm). After some rearranging, here are the ducks now standing on the rocks:

And this is how the Duck Pond now looks on the farm:

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Only these five ducks will show up on the farm this way, so you can easily choose which ducks you want to show off.

Finally, you can harvest the Duck Pond once every twenty-four (24) hours for coins. Soon enough we will be adding the ability to breed new ducks, so stay tuned!