Navajo Shepherds

Navajo Shepherds
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
Age	Exploration Age
Research
Researched at	Trading Post or Tambo on a Navajo settlement
Wood	200
Research time	10 seconds
Effect
Herded animals gather work rate for Livestock Pen, Farm, Village, Livestock Market, and Hacienda +30%; gather XP work rate for Sacred Field +30%, for Shrine +35%

“	Navajo sheep raising skills let your herd animals fatten much more quickly on a Livestock Pen, Farm, Village, Shrine, and Sacred Field.	”
—In-game description

Navajo Shepherds is a technology in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs that can be researched at a Trading Post or Tambo built on a Navajo settlement. Once researched, it doubles the rate at which herded animals fattens over time, with an additional 30% when tasked to Livestock Pens, Farms, Villages, Livestock Markets, and Haciendas. In The Asian Dynasties, it also increases the XP generation rate of Indian herded animals when tasked to Sacred Fields by 30%, and the contribution of Japanese herded animals to Shrines' resource/XP trickle by 35%.

Strategy

Navajo Shepherds is exceedingly powerful for civilizations which makes use of livestock more than others, especially British, Chinese, Indians, Haudenosaunee, and Japanese.