Tutorials/Meat farming

Animal and Meat Farming
Animal farming is one of the most favoured forms of farming alongside the staple foods like wheat, pumpkin, melon, and sugar cane, but what amazing town, palace, castle or faction/clan base would be complete without a local butcher to clean up some meat for a hearty piece of steak or other meats for dinner?

DJ&Riggaz Automatic Cooked Beef and Leather Farm
Video tutorial is available here. In trying to make an automatic cow farm that actually cooks the meat into beef before the cow dies is a problem that a lot of people face. The big question in this is usually whether to use lava or netherrack. Well personally, I'd believe that using netherrack, as cows are so big allows for the best and most efficient farm. Using a breeding station of some description as the hub of the design, with a water flow from the breeding pen leading to the cows falling onto a single block of lit netherrack at the very end of the water flow, followed by being pushed off from pistons that are underneath the last water block after a few seconds will cause the cow to die in a burning fashion a lot of the time, ultimately giving you beef as well as some leather.

Chicken Farming
Overall, Chicken Farming is easier than other types of animal farms, due to the 1x1 space a chicken takes up and the fact that Chickens can come from eggs, Chicken Farming is more recommended to rookies to meat farming and experts alike.

Piston+Lava=Chicken Farm
To use this, you may want an already-existent egg farm for a supply of Eggs after all Chickens are roasted.

To make this, you are going to need:
 * Eggs (at least 2 stacks, in case one is a dud)
 * A location for chickens to stay. A pit is recommended.
 * Water
 * A light Source
 * Sticky Pistons
 * Dispenser(s)
 * 1 Lava Block
 * Some Redstone (Torches and Repeaters May be needed too)
 * A lever
 * A button
 * OPTIONAL: Man-access to the pit/other location.

Clear out a flat area in the shape of a water spread. Chickens will stay on the platform. Make sure the area is well-lit, with either Glowstone or Torches lighting up the farm. DO NOT USE TORCHES ON THE FARM! Place a Dispenser with a bucket of water in it so the Water is above the center of the platform. Link Redstone to the Dispenser so it activates upon on a lever (or Button upon preference). Then, dig a 3+ Block fall into a pit with a water current carrying Chickens to a small 1x1 room. There, have a Button (NOT a lever) and an area for the Lava and a sticky piston. Craft an inverter out of Redstone and link it to the Sticky Piston (placed in Front of the Lava, above the 1x1 room). Give it a test run, and you're done!

Operating the Farm
First, you take some eggs and toss them onto the farm area. Wait for the chickens to go to adults, and then fire up the dispenser so is washes away ALL Chickens. Then, go to the "retrieval room" and when all the Chickens are in the 1x1 block, turn on the Piston, and then collect the rewards!

Note: You can chain together multiple farms to increase the profit.