FrontierVille Injured Animal Mission coming soon; Collection now available

In a fairly interesting update to FrontierVille today, Zynga has added a new collection to the game, but there is currently no way to earn items for said collection. The Collection is the Injured Animal collection, and it asks you to find five items, as usual:

Heater
Formula
Cone of Shame
Vaccine
Splint

All of these items are medical in nature, and right now, Zynga offers us this in the way of a hint for completing it: "Injured Animal Collectibles drop when you tend injured animals (you'll need to heal them up first)." But what exactly does this mean? Will sick animals randomly appear on our homestead, or will our current animals become sick, and need some sort of first aid?

We've discovered that a new quest will likely be coming to the game in the future introducing the concept of Injured Animals. Meet us behind the break for details about this upcoming new quest.

The Injured Animal quest looks to be just three tasks long, and not part of a longer chain of missions. The quest will require you to complete three tasks:

Move an Injured Animal
Tend Three Injured Animals
Heal One Injured White Buffalo

Remember, these tasks are subject to change at any time, but right now, it appears as though we'll be discovering an injured White Buffalo on our Homesteads in the near future that must be healed. Will a single animal take three tends to heal, or will we have to wait for three injured animals to appear on our land? All of that remains to be seen at this point, but we do know the supposed rewards for this new quest - 250 XP and 500 coins.

Once you've completed this mission, and we've gained access to injured animals on our Homesteads, we'll be able to go back to completing the Injured Animal Collection, which will reward you with a First Aid Station when turning it in. Again, details about this new item are incredibly sketchy - will it be a building that must be constructed, or purely a decorative item? We'll be sure to bring you those details and more when we have them.

While we're waiting for this new quest and hopefully exciting feature to be released, help us speculate as to its details in the comments. How do you think these injured animals will change the game?