These farms are the very basic animal farms that you will have to deal with yourself. They are very early builds that can start you in your Minecraft journey. We will basically build an enclosure for the animals and then you will feed and kill the animals yourself.
Once you have built any of these farms you will be able to keep stocks of food which will help immensely in your Minecraft world. To get the best out of these farms it will be necessary for you to stay quite close by so that you can feed and kill the animals. For best practice you may want to place a furnace quite close to these farms so that the meat can be cooked straight away.
Once these farms are built this will enable you to build many other items in Minecraft. Although all of these animals will produce meat you will be able to produce many other items from what they drop. Be aware that all of the meat can be eaten raw except for the chicken which will give you food poisoning.
When you kill these animals they may drop the following items – Cows will drop beef, leather or they can be milked. Sheep will drop mutton and wool when they are killed. Sheep can also be sheared so that you can get the wool without killing them. Chickens when killed will drop chicken along with feathers. Feathers are used in the production of arrows.