▶ The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Breeding Zoo in Planet Zoo | Tutorial | Tips & Tricks

[@huntercollum869]

If you can afford a few the lemurs can be a great way to make some quick conservation credits. They breed like mad, grow up quickly, don't cost a crazy amount to keep alive and you can put like a hundred in one enclosure between the three species

[@nikolassheittanis9477]

I think what would be a great addition to planet zoo would be a farm pack ( sheep, ducks, chickens, cows, bulls, goats, cats, donkeys, pigs, rabbits, turkeys and an exhibit animal like the water snake) or a mountain pack ( eagle, wolverine, chinchilla, moth) or a bird pack ( tucan, and Atlantic puffin. instead of having to put the birds inside a box like the bats, we could create huge domes and put the birds in there and create butterfly gardens

[@erineastwood9894]

I agree there are always petting zoos inside of real zoo's

[@dumbsheep1134]

I’d be excited if they make a bird pack because I want to make a walk in bird exhibit

[@bee.2392]

@@dumbsheep1134this is my dream ^^

[@kieferschatz239]

I would like a bird pack with the bald eagle, toucan, parrots, and some temperate small birds Ex: cardinal or bluejay. I would like it to have a scenery theme of birds as well so that it would add onto the theme.

[@luna_rain2521]

A couple more bat species would be awesome and I second puffins

[@kop-uv2dx]

just a point of criticism... having an "Everything" workzone works exactly the same as having NO workzone... each keeper/vet/caretaker can roughly handle 3 habitats... if you make workzones tailored to that ability your staff works far more efficient (the huge walking distances add significantly to the high workload of your staff... having smaller workzones will reduce the walking distances and the work load)... just have 3 habitats (you can add up to 3 exhibits to a zone, but then it'll need a second keeper occasionally)... for each workzone add a staff building & a keepers' hut... if you want fast research done by a vet you need to place a Research center in the middle of a workzone, and then when those animals are fully researched (including bonus research) you can move the Research center to the next workzone and assign the vet to the next workzone... with those more limited-size workzones you can have a huge zoo with 30 different habitats/exhibits and only have 10 top-trained keepers and just 5 vets (less if you've finished all research)... this is what I've found out from many hours of Planet Zoo gameplay in franchise mode... also... benches aren't required at all for guests happiness... especially when your zoos are still small you don't need them at all... most of my franchise zoos are fairly sizeable (at least 30 species or more) which are set-up very spaciously... I only have tables & seats at food courts... and my guest happiness is 100%... when you're just starting a zoo don't throw money at stuff you don't need yet... benches are something you can add at a far later stage when your zoo is earning you loads and loads of money and you can spend more time at making your zoo look pretty...another tip for fast money is to plonk at least 2 exhibits in your zoo with boa constrictors and other snake-species that have huge longevity... and then set the exhibits to automatically sell the youngster for money... this will take care of itself and generate a relatively large money-stream for your zoo... which you can use for buying new habitat animals and stuff like that...

[@DeLadysigner]

Thanks for your input! 😘 When planet zoo launched in 2019 it was not possible to set up a zoo without a workzone, staff didnt know what to do and animals always died because no workzone was set up, so ever since I am used to making workzones and an everything workzone. Obviously for a breeding zo like this all you need is 1 workzone unless your breeding zoo gets bigger, but in my other franchise series I have several 😊

[@J0SH826]

This looks like every zoo I made before finding your channel this year

[@DeLadysigner]

Oh haha 🙈

[@Ash-mx8pr]

I find artic foxes and red pandas are the fastest when it comes to breeding and selling for money or conservation credits. Accidentally left my zoo playing for some time and lost TONS of money and had to spend a lot of my credits to earn it back. My arctic foxes and red pandas were cheap to keep in the zoo and earned me a nice chunk back. Some other animals that breed easily for myself and are worth selling at also dall sheep. you can have lots of females--there are a lot of smaller herbivores that have similar herd set ups (1 male, a lot of females). Even if the animals aren't worth much in the shop I can still release them to the wild for a small bit. Dall sheep are worth more than the springbok or sable antelope but have similar group size which is why i prefer them. but hands down arctic foxes and red pandas have been my best sellers all around, grow up fast, can have multiple babies, need small hab space. Theres no need for a whole group of adult foxes either since on the alpha pair breed so just put one male one female of each in one hab and sell babies

[@Thatirishbuck]

This is probably the best video i've came across. I just started one of these on my console edition & its going crazy! Gathered 3500+ conservation points, breeding is going on 24/7 & the park is almost at 5 stars just under 20 hours of gameplay🎉 This set me up perfectly for opening another zoo where i can focus more on the details & whatever animals i want. All the breeding is helping but Capybaras, Warthogs, Sunbears, Nile Monitors, Black Bears are all super useful. The sun bears get ALOT of points for one also!

[@DeLadysigner]

You are SO welcome! And have fun building your zoos ❤️

[@Lis283]

Penguins are also good for breeding. Especially if you settle 5-6 couples. Then the population replenishes itself, it remains only sometimes to run in, to release some of the penguins into the wild.

[@dinosaurs818]

I’ve found peafowls work incredibly well. You can only have about 4 males and 15 ish females at a time, but they breed like crazy. Accidentally left my zoo on the 3x fast forward for an hour, came back and there were 90 something animals. They don’t sell for much but there’s so many to release and sell

[@Pepsithegoat]

My African Penguins reproduce too fast for me to keep up 😭 I'll come back and suddenly have 80 penguins

[@Lis283]

@@Pepsithegoat Put a shawarma stall next to their enclosure. (Dark humor is my everything)

[@tearex12345]

@@Pepsithegoat Polar bears will solve the problem!

[@Pepsithegoat]

@@tearex12345 at least they're a decent conservation credit farm for my franchise

[@ReneeScarted]

I love this tutorial, thank you! Something I hoped would be in the tutorial but wasn't is how to manage the babies, e.g. if you want to breed the babies down the line to have better quality animals and to keep bloodlines, as animals die off after a while so I imagine it's useful to keep future breeding stock. And, maybe, herd animals, as some can only have 1 male, and I think I saw a solution where you keep a bachelor pen and change the male every once in a while. So yeah, overall, how to manage offspring you keep to avoid inbreeding and raise the quality of the animals (does that worth more credits?), is something that would be great to see maybe in a 2nd part to this video, but it definitely gave me a good idea how to start out with a breeding zoo and what's a good layout for it to fit a lot of animals in an efficient way.

[@Bobchannel716]

i make breeding zoo by making a normal habitat and just waiting for a albino it worked for my hippos and the other benefit of this method is that you can also make other habitats to get more money and more albinos.

[@function_goer]

As for which animals you can add; in my normal zoo I had bisons and the males sell for so much!! (I think 1-5k per bison) They take a while to mature but you can have 14 females in one habitat so it doesn't matter as much :) great video!

[@illgottencranes]

That is helpful! I have been putting off making a breeding zoo since I was a little skeptical, but I'm leaning toward starting one now. :)

[@DeLadysigner]

Good luck 😃

[@littletofoo]

Nevermind, I made a daft comment and deleted it because it was just me being blind hahaha. Either way, I am relatively experienced in PZ and I am just going through your tutorials learning a bunch of new tricks. Already looking forward to implementing those in my zoos!

[@DeLadysigner]

Have fun 😃

[@АнжелаМякишева-ю6в]

I like red pandas and both species of lemur Varya to start with - they don't need a lot of space, breed well and give a lot of leaves when sent into the wild. Sorry for the bad English, I'm writing through a translator

[@AnimalDreams86]

I was wondering why you don't also use some exhibit animals to make some fast cash. They breed like crazy, and you can now set the exhibit to sell animals automatically so they don't become overcrowded.

[@DeLadysigner]

Everyone has there own way of doing it as said in the video 😊

[@AnimalDreams86]

@@DeLadysigner Of course, there is no right or wrong way. I'm just curious why you don't use them, maybe you just don't like them, or you've noticed your franchise makes more money with just habitats, or maybe something else I haven't even thought about :)

[@AnarianElf1085]

It's also super important to look at age. That Jaguar that was on the market for 500 was old, and didn't have many years left. You probably could have gotten away with the 800+, depending on genetics and the fact that your Jaguar was only 3 years old... vs the 21yo on the market.

[@einemeinung2809]

I Know that but i Love the tutorials and exited they back

[@DeLadysigner]

Aaaaw thanks lovely ❤️ this one is indeed more for beginners, but appreciate you watching ❤️

[@Kaneanite]

One minor point; If you are starting your first Franchise Zoo, or have never done any research, you won't have one-way glass unlocked. You will need to do Mechanic Research in the Barrier section until it unlocks, i believe it's the 5th level of research. Selling animals on the Trade Market: Males take the longest to sell and often sells lower than what the game sets. Females are easier to sell and mostly sell for what the game sets. The color variants of animals sell the fastest and can often be soled for double what the game sets. Also age, quality and rarity plays into how fast and how much you can sell an animal for. EX. A 2 year old gold quality albino female Platypus would have a great chance of selling for 3-4 times the price the game suggests.

[@DeLadysigner]

Ooh I actually didnt think of that!! Thanks so much for sharing Kane ❤️

[@PatataMaxtex]

For animals that prefer to be a single couple, for example Grizzlies, the males and females sell for roughly the same prize in my experience, but for all the animals that life in groups, you are right, especially when it is preferably a group with more females than males.

[@imtnt2]

This is one of the best educational tutorials I have seen.Thank you.

[@DeLadysigner]

Aaaaw you are so welcome ❤️❤️

[@protozoanpro]

Awesome video, and don’t take this as an insult, but your voice reminds me very much of my Croatian great grandmother who came from Croatia to the US. Very awesome slight accent, just brought back happy memories. Felt the need to comment it

[@timotejhlava857]

This video is amazing! Even tho I'm missing 99% of DLC's and it's harder, it works! Thanks for all the amazing tips! 😂😊

[@DeLadysigner]

You are so welcome ❤️

[@deepstonecostco]

my favorite "hack" has been the starter habitats collection on the steam workshop by PlasticSwans, saves so much time

[@linnea9017]

You should set the wage to the minimum requirement for the keeper,vet,mec and educators. You are spending unessisary money on them. This will really help to establish a good economy faster. Staffwages can really make the difference. Otherwise excellent tutorial. :)

[@MamZelleTherrien]

I really like this kind of video 😃 When is the winter zoo coming ?

[@DeLadysigner]

Thank you so much 😘 Winter Zoo is starting the coming week 😊

[@BlackReshiram]

super helpful, thank you!

[@Saratalia_ch]

This video was very helpful. I just started playing the game. thank you for your content.

[@DeLadysigner]

So happy to hear I could help! Welcome to the Planet Zoo fam ❤️

[@Shadencile]

Point of advice, quality food increases the odds of the animals becoming pregnant during a mating event, and it also increases the odds of having bigger numbers of babies. :)

[@jonathanstowe5852]

the tern you are looking for is "farm"

[@emilyainge522]

I have a breeding zoo that I started off with appeal to get conservation credits and money then I started breeding the animals I wanted for my other franchises so I got good rated animals

[@emilyainge522]

It also allows me to do the research for that animal for the other zoo

[@xskyren_ri]

Might be a tad bit late, but Capybaras are also a wonderful idea!! They breed like crazy constantly! They never stop I swear!!! 😂😂 even if they don’t sell for 200cc each when you’re selling 10 at a time it really does add up!

[@DeLadysigner]

Haha nice! But can you also buy them for money or only for CC? Just asking for beginners that dont have CC to spend :)

[@xskyren_ri]

@@DeLadysigner I just checked, you can buy them for cash! But I just remembered they do come from a DLC pack as well so they would need to get the DLC for it

[@Pixarification]

I need this to be a series :D

[@Redribbon_iv]

Just bought the game on sale and found ur content 😊😊😊😊

[@DeLadysigner]

I hope you enjoy it ❤

[@NefliteArts]

okay after this video I tried it and it went crazy :D thanks for all the ideas o/

[@DeLadysigner]

You are so welcome ❤️

[@SomniiLinn]

Great video! Most of this is very logical, but not necessarily something you think of unless you have some experience.

[@DeLadysigner]

Thank you! Glad you like it and find it informative ❤️

[@Sjaak2511]

Great video, still holds up but there is one thing I like to mention: in my franchise breeding I have found an additional factor when it comes to breeding (for huge amounts of cc, for context I have 1,6 milion) and that is that there is also demand and competition to take into account, if you breed something like lions (what most people recommend), you can run into problems selling them on the market for the default price. So if you are breeding it also matters how rare the animal is, and when you are breeding albinos its even more important.

[@Snorlink]

Great video! Thanks

[@DeLadysigner]

You are so welcome ❤️

[@alexb859]

Awesome video!!!

[@DeLadysigner]

Thanks Alex 😘

[@alexb859]

@@DeLadysigner any time :)

[@nechtan24]

Learned the hard way. You need at least two different animal types to be successful. Tried a Bengal Tiger breeding program. Had four different habitats of bengal tigers breeding but couldn't attract enough guests to sustain it. Started over and added an Amur Leopard and African Penguin habitat and now the four bengal tiger habs are sustainable.

[@lukewald8282]

I might've missed this but is there a way to auto release animals when they grow up?

[@DeLadysigner]

Not for habitat animals, no 😊

[@JustTheLyrics]

Thank you very much for this really helpful tutorial, I was struggling with breeders in my main zoo because my Trade Center is starting to fill up.. (because storing your good animals appearently take allot of space if you have a total of 490 animals ^^;) .. now I have a reliable solution to my problem. Also I had to laugh when you said 'I'm Dutch so I like to pay for my toilets' xD I'm also Dutch but honestly I hate paying for the toilet >-< If I go somewhere and I have to pay for it while I already bought consumables there.. nope.. I'm too Dutch for it, free is always good xDxD

[@DeLadysigner]

You are so welcome 😃

[@skylander1234]

what to do if some animals i mean like half of them arent on market for me on franchise zoo?like i cant see any other leopards than the snow one theres no jaguars no sun bears like so much animals arent shown for me on market idk what to do if its just like that?is it a glitch?idk pls help

[@Moondustbeam]

The Nile Monitor might be good because they have 2-10 babies but they take 4 years to grow up and there cheap to buy I believe and I am new to playing planet zoo!

[@maws4848]

Die ingang.... is dat nieuw bij Planet Zoo? Ik ken alleen de ingang met die houten ronde boog... deze is veel mooier!

[@DeLadysigner]

Volgens mij zijn dit de aangepaste mappen sinds de free update naast twilight pack 😊

[@maws4848]

@@DeLadysigner Heb het spelletje na kijken video meteen opgestart en klopt... is mooi!! :D

[@DeLadysigner]

@@maws4848 haha niceeee 😁

[@Prince_Theo]

Can you show how you made such perfect barriers? I have trouble making exact shaped barriers since they do not snap or align to a grid or path.

[@DeLadysigner]

I never use it myself but there is a path option to snap barriers to paths?

[@Prince_Theo]

@@DeLadysigner Yes, there is that feature. But not the other way around. If I grid paths like in your video, I cannot snap barrier to the perfect square grid. Instead I have to freeform the barrier and even a slight angle difference will ruin a square barrier planning.

[@DeLadysigner]

Oh I didnt know! But other than that I dont have any tips than to try and make it straight yourself and try to make it as straight as possible 🙈

[@Deborahm11]

When you click on a barrier, click on ''Angle Alignment''. Maybe that'll help. Make it 45o and you make square barrieres.

[@jujuplays92]

Do conservation credits stay the same over all frachise zoos? So you build credits in a breeding zoo and then spend them on your main franchise?

[@DeLadysigner]

Yes they do 😃👍

[@jujuplays92]

@@DeLadysigner thank you!!

[@emmelineskee]

It's so embarrassing 🙈 My regular zoo just looks like your breeding zoo 😅 I urgently need to invest some time in decorating my zoo. It's not that I don't know how, I am just too lazy and then am annoyed of the looks 😂 Great video. Thank you!

[@DeLadysigner]

Hahaha jikes 🙈 You are so welcome ❤️

[@AlfredShi1986]

West Africa Lion mentioned in this video now has their market crushed by overbreeding of too many players. For releasing its still OK but for selling it s no longer as profitable as mentioned in some old guide. For an almost perfect stat lion I can rarely go over 2500-3000 cc.

[@DeLadysigner]

Which is still a way too high price if you ask me 🙈

[@ArthurWeliton]

Seus videos são muito bons. To jogando o jogo faz uns 4 dias, e sempre venho aqui pra aprender

[@DeLadysigner]

Aaaw thank you so much 😘 welcome to the planet zoo family ❤️

[@MontyViolin-rq4dl]

An easy animal to reproduce is the peacock they do it like clock work

[@DeLadysigner]

Yeah but they are not worth that many CC are they? 😅

[@erineastwood9894]

What type of computer or tablet do you use? I have a Chromebook and it is not compatible with Steam

[@DeLadysigner]

You can find my specs on www.deladysigner.com

[@erineastwood9894]

@@DeLadysigner Thanks for the help! :)

[@DipStaaf]

How do you get small faux rocks in francise?

[@deepstonecostco]

Those come from the Aquatic pack DLC

[@DipStaaf]

​@@deepstonecostco not the small rocks and i also have Aqua pack

[@JaninAmiBeaty]

@@DipStaaf If you have the Aquatic pack then you have the small faux rocks. Search "faux rock" in the nature tab and they'll pop up. And you need to research the aquatic theme if you already haven't.

[@DeLadysigner]

Yes, research it is indeed in the workshop with mechanics to unlock themes and stuff 😘

[@DipStaaf]

But normally u have like 4 tiny faux rocks but i cant see it, because i have a blueprint that i made with those rocks and i get place it on my francise

[@KRYSTIANO5]

when i dont have enough money but have other zoo where i have lots of it then i buy many hippos (or whatever is expensive at the market for money) and then go to the new zoo and sell them all there

[@Aari_Plays]

When i want to watch this tutorial but haven't finished watching African zoo yet... XD

[@DeLadysigner]

Haha ❤️

[@chrissi1802]

What I do in the beginning to earn more money fast is to put down some vivariums and buy some of the fast reproducing insects. With the new settings those which are the oldest and would overpopulate the habitat will be sold and the younger ones keep reproducing. I buy at least 4-6 vivariums and focus then on the bigger animals.

[@DeLadysigner]

So smart!!

[@JustaTurtle150]

I’m earlyyyyyyy sure I was the first to click but not the first comment

[@JustaTurtle150]

I was the first comment!!!!!

[@DeLadysigner]

Hahaha you are indeed the first comment ❤️ well done ❤️

[@breakieattiffs2312]

I feel like gharials would be good for a breeding zoo

[@DeLadysigner]

But doesn't it take super long for them to grow up? 🤔

[@michaela9937]

i have more than 8 000 000 conservation credits i love breeding animals :D

[@DeLadysigner]

Hahaha well doneeeeee!

[@Badger_god123]

Not me encouraging mating in sandbox with no goal whatsoever

[@DeLadysigner]

😅

[@erinwoolbright816]

If that habitat it too big then wow im doing something wrong 😂

[@JoJoC654]

what biome is this?

[@DeLadysigner]

I think African Grasslands 😊

[@JoJoC654]

thanks@@DeLadysigner

[@CristianLupo-j1m]

I don’t care how many cubs I will get I just want cubs

[@binnerpro3009]

Heyooooo

[@DeLadysigner]

Hayooooo ❤️

[@StanHowse]

lol. Cute, but you don't have to worry about being cruel to 1's & 0's.. They're already cruel to us, anyway.

[@codexpwnz5628]

I really like the game but even after first 10 hours it's clear that theres no end content or goal, or any different modes from vanilla game, which makes this game 2 dimensional af :< And yes for a game + all dlcs is like 200+£ so I would expect not to run through the game so quick, which is 10h +/-

[@DeLadysigner]

Im a bit confused about your comment 🙈 There is career mode, challenge mode, timed scenarios, franchise mode and sandbox mode (of which the last one you can choose what challenges and management settings are turned on so how you want to play the game) 😊 There are plenty of things to do in this game, but indeed there is no end goal or content apart from finishing a good running zoo I guess? Unless you are play career mode which I would highly recommended playing first when just starting the game 😊

[@Steevee5k]

Interrestingly enough, the lion's life expectancy is 14 years and his age of sexual sterility is 15 years. So who can tell me, what's wrong with this picture?

[@DeLadysigner]

Lol, thats a bit odd indeed 😅