Pig Pen Breeding What We Know

1) You get a Free No Pattern Green Male Pig From Completing the Pig Pen, Or Grabbing from the Feed when a Friend Shares.

2) If you want the Dotted Pattern on your Pigs, You will, at least for now Purchase the Boar from the Market, or wait for someone to share a piglet with the dna for the pattern.

Note: some folks are getting the Dotted Pattern without buying the boar.  Could this be a legit glitch allowing patterns to transfer that aren't supposed to, or other means…

3) The Stripe pattern is NOT OUT Yet. (see Below)

4) Works like the Sheep basically.  So this means there will be people hacking them very likely.

5) Will post more as we know it.

6) The Ask for potions for the Sheep and Pigs are the same, So You can't ask for pigs then sheep, they are based on the same timer.

Got any pig pen info you think should be shared, throw it in as a comment.


Restated for those that can not understand. Why Farms are broken

Right now there are 2 different main reasons that farms are not loading.

1) This is affecting people that do not even have a sheep pen:  AWS (Amazon Web Services) Is having issues, and a number of companies including Zynga are having issues. 

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-21/amazon-web-services-disruption-knocks-customer-sites-offline.html

2) You were Breeding your Red and Blue Polka Dotted Sheep and now you can not load your farm.  This is because that sheep is broken at the moment due to a coding mistake.

Source: I just tested this on My farm, and received word from about 100 other people that did the same and now their farms do not load.

 

Speculation: Both problems may be connected in a way, because with the AWS Issues maybe Zynga Can not Update the game to repair it?  This may not be true, but seems possible.


Fixed: CONFIRMED BLUE AND RED POLKA DOT SHEEP IS THE DEVIL!

This has been fixed.  🙂

Just because you did it in the past, doesn't mean you should try it now.

In an effort to confirm the rumor that it was the Polka dotted Red on Blue sheep that came from the English teaser that is Breaking some farms.

All is normal in Sheep pen

Yes the Blue and red Dotted Sheep and Brutus will make a pretty baby.

Hmmm Why is it staying grey?

Farm will not load, is now dead.

 

I personally broke my own farm to get to the bottom of this.

So Spread the word, make sure your friends that can play DO NOT BREED THE BLUE AND RED POLKA DOTTED SHEEP!

Share, Comment.


Sheep! + Bonus ACK MY FARM IS TEH BROKEN ISSUES

Sheep Breeding:

There has been a few questions on "what is an illegal sheep"  Well its easier to list the types of Legal sheep

HoodNo PatternDotsStripe

That's it.  Those are the 4 that Zynga in Someway officially released, Either via the Questing, or Market.

The Flashing, blinking, exploding, star, splotch, mask, eyepatch, devil, horny, and whatever other clever names that have been created are all in the "illegal" side of "Zynga Law".


If You are getting the 100 Sheep notice, but don't have 100 sheep, the following are methods that work for some folks

1) Empty your pen, only put in what you want to breed.
2) Delete and Rebuild Pen
3) Remember Lambs and Full Grown Sheep count towards the limit
4) Dancing around yelling at the screen, This likely Doesn't Work
5) If you do Dance around yelling at the screen Please Film it.

 

Broken Farm:

A number of farms are not fully loading.  This is boils down to 2 basic things.

When the game calls to get the farm data 1 of 2 things happen
 

A: It doesn't get a proper response because the server the farm data is on, is not exactly working.  This likely is tied to the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Issue.  My farm was doing this, but in recent moments when checking it loaded fine.

B: It appears one of the Legal Sheep, the Blue and Red Polka Dotted is suspected, in someway got corrupted and is causing the farm data to error on return.

 

What can you do if your Farm is Broken.

Well the sad thing is, not a whole hell of a lot.  You can go to the Customer Service link for Zynga, and yell at them to fix it, but it likely will not make things any better.  Waiting is pretty much the only cure for this at the moment.  As I said My Farm was down for quite a while, but has since started loading again.

We will post more as we know it.

If your farm will not load, in a comment write what you were doing before it quit loading.