SoS: FoMT Strawberry Cow Guide (How To Get + Uses)

by Kal S.

Strawberry cows are one of the specialty cows in SoS: FoMT. They have unique pink hair that sets them apart from the other animals in the game.

Strawberry cows also produce strawberry milk instead of normal milk.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

How To Get a Strawberry Cow
- Purchasing from Yodel Ranch
- Breeding
Taking Care of a Strawberry Cow
Strawberry Milk
What To Do With Strawberry Milk
- Gifting
- Recipes
Are Strawberry Cows Worth It?

A strawberry cow inside the barn

How To Get a Strawberry Cow

There are two different ways to get a strawberry cow. One is by purchasing it from Yodel Ranch, and the other is breeding a strawberry cow by yourself.

Purchasing from Yodel Ranch

If you haven’t had a strawberry cow on your farm before, you can get your first cow from Mugi at Yodel Ranch.

The ranch is located at the southeastern side of Mineral Town. It’s open every day from 10 AM until 3 PM, except on Mondays.

Map of Mineral Town with Yodel Ranch encircled

There are no prerequisites needed in order to buy a strawberry cow. They’re already available for purchase at the start of the game.

You also need to have space available in your barn, since you can only have 8 barn animals at a time. A barn upgrade is also available through Gotts at the workshop, which will let you have up to 16 animals.

Strawberry cows are priced at 10,000 G: twice the cost of a regular cow.

The shop menu at Yodel Ranch with the strawberry cow selected, priced at 10,000 G

Breeding

If you’ve purchased a strawberry cow before, you can simply breed another one at a fraction of the cost. Yodel Ranch sells Cow Breeding Kits priced at 3,000 G each.

The shop menu at Yodel Ranch with the Cow Breeding Kit selected, priced at 3,000 G

Simply equip the Cow Breeding Kit as a tool and select the cow you want to breed. Make sure there is enough space in the barn to accommodate another animal.

The cow also needs to be fully mature (producing milk). Otherwise, the breeding will fail.

Breeding animals is one of the best ways to expand your barn. Animals you buy from Mugi can only reach a maximum of 5 hearts. However, for each generation of animals born on your farm, their maximum heart level increases by one.

You can view your cow’s heart level by opening the relationships menu, and selecting Animals.

Interface of the animal relationship tab where you can check your cow’s heart level

You can keep breeding cows until they reach a maximum of 10 hearts, which will also allow you to harvest higher-quality milk.

Taking Care of a Strawberry Cow

Once you’ve successfully obtained your strawberry cow, it’s time to raise them!

Cows mature after a maximum of 14 days. However, you can speed up this process by interacting with them and feeding them.

If you feed them every day from the moment you get them on your farm, they mature after 9 days.

You can leave fodder in the feeding troughs and they’ll automatically eat it themselves.

Make sure you don’t put more fodder in the troughs than there are animals in the barn, though. The extra fodder will just disappear without being eaten the next day.

Here are some other things you can do daily to increase your friendship points with your strawberry cow:

1. Talking to them

The farmer talks to the strawberry calf

You can talk to your cow an unlimited amount of times every day. This will open a dialogue box that encourages them to grow up healthy.

If your cow likes you, they’ll moo back and a heart bubble will show up on the screen.

2. Brushing them

The farmer equips the brush tool which is needed for grooming the animals

You can buy a Brush from Saibara at the Forge for 800 G. The Forge is located to the north of your farm.

Equip this tool and brush them every day to increase friendship points.

Map of Mineral Town with the Forge encircled, where you can buy tools like the brush and milker

3. Hand feeding

Interacting with the cows while holding fodder will allow the farmer to hand feed them

It might be more convenient to leave fodder in the troughs or just take them outside, but hand feeding will make your cows like you more. Select the fodder in your inventory and interact with the cow to manually feed them.

4. Letting them outside

The farmer stands outside the barn and rings the cow bell

You can bring your cows outside of the barn to make them happier. Simply ring the bell to the left of the barn door and they’ll find their way out.

They will only go outside to graze in sunny weather, and automatically go back inside the barn at 8 PM.

Strawberry Milk

Unlike regular cows, strawberry cows can only produce strawberry milk.

This milk can’t be processed into other dairy products like cheese.

You can start harvesting strawberry milk from your cows once they reach maturity. You can get the milker from Saibara at the Forge for 3,000 G.

The farmer holds a jug of (S) strawberry milk

However, strawberry milk does sell for a higher cost, which makes up for the value. The quality and selling price of the milk will also be dependent on the cow’s heart level.

Strawberry Milk Selling Guide
Size/Quality	Heart Level/Requirements	Selling Price
S	0-3 hearts	120 G
M	4-7 hearts	240 G
L	8-10 hearts	400 G
G	8-10 hearts + Winning the Moo Moo Festival	550 G
P	8-10 hearts + Winning the Moo Moo Festival + 1,000 hours outside	660 G
X	8-10 hearts 1 in 255 chance for every P milk produced	900 G

The prices listed above are for the Normal game mode. If you’ve chosen to play in Simple mode, they’ll sell for a bit more gold.

What To Do With Strawberry Milk

Strawberry milk can have uses other than just throwing them in the shipping bin. You can give it to villagers or use it in recipes.

Gifting

You can gift strawberry milk to certain villagers that will really like it.

Giving this pink milk to them on their birthday can boost the amount of love/friendship points you gain in return.

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Strawberry Milk (Animal Product) Gifting Guide
Gift Reaction	Love Points	Friendship Points	Villager
Love	+500	+9	Anna, Carter, Dudley, Ellen, Ellie, Lillia, Manna, Mugi
Like	+300	+3	Brandon, Cliff, Doctor, Gotts, Harvest Goddess, Harris, Jeff, Jennifer, Kai, Mei, Popuri, Saibara, Sasha, Ran, Thomas, Yu

Recipes

You can use strawberry milk to make… Strawberry Milk.

Once you reach 4 friendship levels with Carter, he’ll teach you a recipe that you can cook using strawberries and any type of milk (not necessarily strawberry milk).

The dish will give you +30 stamina when consumed. It can also be sold to Huang.

You can gift the Strawberry Milk dish to villagers using the following table:

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Strawberry Milk (Dish) Gifting Guide
Gift Reaction	Love Points	Friendship Points	Villager
Love	+500	+9	Elli, Carter, Lillia, Popuri, Ran, Rick
Like	+300	+3	Marie
Neutral	+100	+1	Harvest Goddess
Dislike	-500	-3	Karen

Are Strawberry Cows Worth It?

Since they can’t produce all of the byproducts that you can get from regular cows, from a financial standpoint, strawberry cows aren’t worth all that trouble.

But if you take care of them well enough, their strawberry milk will sell for a much higher price than regular milk. This can make up for the lack of cheese.

Other than that, there’s not much of a difference in how specialty and normal cows behave.