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.

Cooked Chicken Farm
To use this, you may want a separate egg farm for a supply of eggs. This farm will leave no chickens alive.

To make this, you are going to need:
 * Eggs, or chickens led with seeds to the pit
 * 4 buckets of water
 * 4 Dispensers
 * 1 Netherrack
 * 1 Flint and Steel
 * 1 Lever
 * 4 Redstone Repeaters
 * Redstone Dust

First, dig a 9 long, 9 wide, and 3 deep pit. Adjacent to each of the 4 corners, place a dispenser facing the center of the pit. Place a bucket of water in each dispenser. You may also place the water in the corners of the pit without the dispenser to save resources.

Next, dig a hole 4 deep in the center of the 9x9x3 pit. Hollow out the hole into a 3x3x3 room with the floor of the pit above you intact except for the center block. Below the hole place netherrack, and set it on fire with your flint and steel - you may need to do this from above the 3x3 hole.

Next wire up the dispensers to a lever. The dispenser will only dispense and retract the water when the signal goes from high to low.

Note: You may also add a piston below the hole in the center of the pit to regulate when the chickens get culled.

Note: You will need to dig a path to the collection area.

Note: I attempted the lava and piston trap that was previously on this page, and it would not work correctly in 1.3.2 and 1.4 Pre-Release. The lava would kill the chickens too quickly. I experimented with a few lava options and could not find a way to get it to work in the latest version.