| I play with board game geeks. That is, they order Euro games before they are available in the US and then get translations. So both my games so far are with the Euro version. It doesn't have meeples, just blocks.
The US version has nice pieces apparently and also has a few more cards from the Euro version. I would also hope the translation is smoother than ours.
The BGG's in our group went to Target and bought bunchs of barnyard animals to represent the various animals and chickens to represent food. | 
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