Cows in FarmCapi: milk for the Cheese house and the Wood stove

A cow in FarmCapi becomes available at level 6, costs 450 coins, eats 1 feed and gives 1 bucket of milk an hour later. Milk sells for 50 coins and gives 12 XP when you collect it. The Shop sells up to 3 cows. In the current version (November 2026), cows share the pen with the chickens, and milk is the ingredient that opens up the Cheese house and the Wood stove's priciest recipes.

Cow at a glance

How to raise cows, step by step

1. At level 6, buy a cow in the Shop, under Animals & feed (450 coins).
2. Keep feed in the Barn: 2 coins in the Shop, or 6 at a time from the Windmill.
3. With the Hand, tap a hungry cow to give her 1 feed.
4. Come back in 1 hour. The cow shows up with a milk bucket next to her.
5. Tap with the Hand to collect the milk. It goes to the Barn.
6. Feed her again before you leave.

What a cow earns

Each cycle costs 2 coins of feed and returns 50 coins of milk: 48 coins of profit per hour of a fed cow. She pays for herself in 10 buckets. With 3 cows and hourly check-ins, that's 144 coins of profit an hour from milk alone.

Cows follow the same rule as chickens: one feed, one product. They don't stockpile milk while the game is closed. The difference is the rhythm: a chicken wants attention every 10 minutes, a cow every hour. If you play in short visits spread through the day, cows suit you better.

Chicken vs. cow, per cycle:

Where feed comes from

Chickens and cows eat the same feed. You get it from the Shop (2 coins each, Animals & feed tab) or from the Windmill, which makes 6 feed from 2 radishes and 1 carrot in 2 minutes. The "Fresh milk" quest (collect 3 buckets) pays 120 coins, 40 XP and 6 more feed.

What to do with milk

Milk is the ingredient the production buildings ask for most:

One cheese bread uses 3 milk in total (2 in the cheese, 1 directly). With 3 cows, the farm gets 3 buckets an hour, so milk is usually the bottleneck for Wood stove recipes. Plan on it: 1 hour of cows = 1 cheese bread.

Granny Coti also asks for 1 to 3 buckets of milk in her orders from level 6.

The cattle pasture (planned)

In the current version, cows live in the chickens' pen. The roadmap includes, as planned with no date, a separate pasture for cows in the area opened up by a land expansion.

Keep reading

When a cow pays for itself compared with a hen is covered in hens or cows: which pays more. See chickens and the game guide, or play free and save up for your first cow.