All New Grow a Garden Pets in Farmer’s Market Update Guide & What They Do!

The Farmer’s Market update in Grow a Garden brings three new pets, each with their own set of abilities and special mechanics. These pets come from the Trader Event and add new ways to interact with your garden, earn items, and share mutations. This guide breaks down how each pet works, how to get them, and whether they are worth using in the current state of the game. Also check out our Grow a Garden Codes for more rewards!

1. Shecklings

The Shecklings is the first new pet introduced in this update. You can get it from the Trader Event once you reach streak 17, with a chance of around 2.98%. Its passive gives one Sheckles per second, and every six minutes, it moves to your Coin Fruit plant to sacrifice itself. When it does this, all fruits on that plant turn into Coin Mutation fruits. After the sacrifice, the pet disappears and cannot be copied by Mimic.

While the concept sounds interesting, many players feel that mutations are no longer useful in the current version of Grow a Garden. Since most players already have more than enough shekels, the Shecklings’s ability is not very exciting. It is a niche pet and mostly for collectors.

2. Messenger Pigeon

The Messenger Pigeon is also obtained from the Trader Event, but this time at streak 25 with a 3.36% chance. Every four minutes, this pet picks a random mutation from a random fruit in your garden and sends it to another player. It ignores favored fruit, meaning it simply picks any mutation it finds.

This pet works like a reversed version of the Fennec Fox. Instead of stealing mutations, it sends one out with a full 100% chance. Even though this makes it stronger than the fox, the main issue stays the same: players rarely care about mutations anymore. If the game updates mutations in the future, the Messenger Pigeon could become far more valuable.

3. Camel

The Camel is the final pet in this update and can be obtained at Trader Event streak 35 with a 3.14% drop chance. Its passive activates every ten minutes, gathering five prickly-type fruits. After that, it forms a caravan along with any other camels in the server and walks across the map, dropping one package per fruit. You can pick up these packages for random rewards. The rewards become better when:

• You have more camels in the server
• The fruits used are rarer
• The fruit variants are higher quality

Since it only uses five prickly fruits per cycle, using high-rarity fruits like Crimson Thorn and Trinity Fruit gives the best rewards. Among the three pets, the Camel offers the most practical value because it provides real items and does not rely on mutation systems that players no longer focus on.

The Farmer’s Market update brings some unique pet ideas into Grow a Garden, although their usefulness varies. The Shecklings and Messenger Pigeon mainly support mutation gameplay, while the Camel focuses on gathering rewards and is the most helpful in daily play. If you’re aiming for pets that give real progress, the Camel stands out as the best addition. Try them out during the Trader Event and see which one fits your garden style.