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They produce a lot of manure, but thether it negatively affect them if not cleaned, or can be used as material for fertilizer is unclear.
Fences are necessary. Without them animals seem to occassionally wander off the zone and detach from it, moreso if they're startled by the zombies. You can keep them inside the safehouse while you're building the fences, though you'd have to pet them regularly to relieve stress from being spooked by zeds attacking it.
Piglets seem to require the mother pig in the same zone to grow, otherwise it appears they're unable to feed and will starve eventually.
They do tend to be glitch tho, i had a full enclosure built for turkeys 1 males and 2 females with 1 baby, they headed into chicken coop at night to sleep and had been doing so for a few days every evening, plenty of food and water in troughs. Awoke the next morning to let them out at 6 am( my routine) and they were nowhere to be found..they had just disappeared. No holes anywhere in any fences. I had a metal mesh fence surrounding enclosure border and then a higher fence around that enclosure as well. The animal zone was within the metal fence.
They also seemed to be able to walk thru or glitch thru the fence somehow as i found them wandering in the car park area of my base, an required replacing multiple times.
Pigs tend to destroy walls(high log walls) which they can 2 shot, they even managed to totally destroy a red tool cabinet and a wooden crate with 1 shot when they got into my garage inside when i was repairing there enclosure. They still manage to destroy fence pens inside there animal zone, when they get a little stressed faster than zombies can, it gets annoying constantly having to repair fences or look for disappearing escape artist animals.
i am getting to the point that keeping them isn't worth it, having to lead animals to your base with rope leads or carrying 1 at a time because you cant load 2-3 chicken or 2 turkeys into a van that has 208 capacity, but you need a trailer for animals which are all attached to damaged vehicles is so unrealistic. I can load a few fridges into a van but not a few chickens. Your better of just killing them and butchering them for meat asap, an max out your foraging skill to get more food everywhere.
Hopefully some of these issues are fixed sooner rather than later it tends to detract from the emmersion.
Managing their water is becoming a chore as its a drive to the river with 4 water dispensers, every couple of days. Not even started on food yet but they have enough for a while.
I assume the buffers are there to prevent adjacent livestock zones from combining into one big zone, since many pastures are placed next to another.
Try cows.
When it rains, outdoor, empty troughs will automatically fill with water, so empty them out and fill the ones inside with the food (grass, hay, actual feed all work). Open any gates inside so animals can access it all. This is basically maintenance free as long as zombies don't spook the animals, and the only vulnerability is the gate since generated walls and fences are indestructible outside the player using a sledgehammer.
From there, find an animal trailer to haul them around from other places. I'd recommend at least 1 coop full of chickens (15), and watch for any animals (sheep or cows) with offspring - you can milk them. Having one get pregnant, and give birth, will take months, is somewhat random, and isn't worth the player waiting for when you'll have months of milk from those with babies.
Chickens seem to produce 1-2 eggs per day, per hen. This is actually overkill as far as the hunger mechanic is concerned, though the current calorie requirements are... wrong. You'll have enough butter to keep up with that if you grab a few milk producers.
I've not tried pigs though, and I've heard too many bad things about how destructive they are.
Also, does tripping over small animals while jogging raise their stress?
Alternatively maybe Rain could do us a favor and take a peek under the hood for us. I'm sure she (?) has the tools right at hand.
How bout it Rain? You around?
It's not from a user called Rain, but I found some info at the bottom of this thread.