When night arrives all animals will despawn. This doesn't just happen during the night so when making farms it it close to impossible because once you leave the chunk that the animal is in it despawns. This has happened on pretty much all of my minecraft worlds.
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-21416, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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