pigs amount

[MasterHunter645]

how many is too many pigs? i needed 2 meat grinders and sausage suffers for the pigs

[eggzntaters]

I guess when it starts lagging the game too bad. I've had so many at a time, I just got frustrated and shot them all, big and small.

[GameMaster]

Same here, got rid of the pigs when I had way too many. Sold all the meat which took forever to collect

[Slarken]

Yep when it starts to lag is a good time to make some money...

Also separate the pigs otherwise you will have a hard time to keep up..

On my current save I have like 70 coolers fillled with pig meat..

2 electric grinders 1 electric stuffer is good.

[Sarah Palin]

Originally posted by DarkN:

Also separate the pigs otherwise you will have a hard time to keep up..

This is the most annoying thing to me. When baby animals are born you can tell if they're male or female. Why can we not tell in game so we can separate them before the pig situation gets out of control lol

[Cybagran]

It would be good if they had an M or F after the food and drink status like you get when an animal is pregnant. What I do is wait until night when they are lying on their side asleep which makes the females more noticeable with having breasts, and then remove them one by one without having them running round, as they all head for the door when you are taking one out. You have to check every night and isolate them as far away as possible as they can breed through fences. Not forgetting they can climb on the top of the water and food to escape over a fence so it is safer to build these in the middle of a fenced area. They are good money makers when first setting out. Better than the hens. They have made laugh at times while frantically trying to control them.

[Jack]

Man I'm still new and I gotta say, keeping pig population in control is a bigger issue than I thought it would be. At first it was my best money maker and I wanted as many as possible as fast as possible...that was when I had 2 females and like 4 males. Now, a very short time later, I have over 20 pigs, at least 4 are full grown females, 3 full grown males, and a ton of little piglets. I also have like 5-6 coolers full of unprocessed pork waiting to be turned into pork salami/meatballs. They are the best money makers in the game for me so far. My goats only have 1 kid per cycle, while the momma pig spouts out 3-4 piglets every time. Combine that with a small but respectable 10 hens, no rooster, to make pork/egg salami...I'm getting rich super quick. It's snowballing so fast I kinda want to start over on a new save and not touch pigs, they are that easy when it comes to making money. Especially once you build the Silo/Windmill.

[tazman1]

honestly glad to see I am not the only one with this issue with pigs. Started with 2 and the problem is by the time I could tell which ones were male and which were female moma was already pregnant again (thats after killing the male) ever since that been just a non stop battle didn't help that I had a run of 3 piglets all be female. while the 1 male I had in that group impregnated every single one of them by the time he grew enough to make slaughtering him worth it.

now I have like 30

I think next month I might restart and just get into cows

[krunjar]

The way I plan to do it is I have one female pen and one male pen. One breeding pen and a bunch of raising pens. These pens only being 3x3 and housing a single animal. Once the breeding pens produce piglets I move them to the individual pens to grow out. Once they can be sexed they are moved into the male and female pens respectively. To grow out for meat. This approach is somewhat hampered by the fact that fully grown pigs will often stop eating once they fatten up. But having two breeding pairs that are of well staggered 'fullness' Can offset this problem. I hope. Does that sound workable to you guys cos it gonna be a lot of wood chopping XD

[Jack]

Originally posted by tazman1:

honestly glad to see I am not the only one with this issue with pigs. Started with 2 and the problem is by the time I could tell which ones were male and which were female moma was already pregnant again (thats after killing the male) ever since that been just a non stop battle didn't help that I had a run of 3 piglets all be female. while the 1 male I had in that group impregnated every single one of them by the time he grew enough to make slaughtering him worth it.

now I have like 30

I think next month I might restart and just get into cows

Dude that's my plan too. My new playthrough is just do the repeat quests until I can afford a single dairy cow and go from there. Pigs are just too crazy lol, now I see why pork is so much cheaper than beef in real life...since apparently pigs reproduce like bunnies. (I looked it up, they really do in real life)

[tazman1]

indeed and the average for calves is 1-2 with very rarely like once every 5 years recorded triplets. Should make cows slightly easier, honestly planing both beef and dairy cows with that system.

Originally posted by krunjar:

The way I plan to do it is I have one female pen and one male pen. One breeding pen and a bunch of raising pens. These pens only being 3x3 and housing a single animal. Once the breeding pens produce piglets I move them to the individual pens to grow out. Once they can be sexed they are moved into the male and female pens respectively. To grow out for meat. This approach is somewhat hampered by the fact that fully grown pigs will often stop eating once they fatten up. But having two breeding pairs that are of well staggered 'fullness' Can offset this problem. I hope. Does that sound workable to you guys cos it gonna be a lot of wood chopping XD

The issue here is that pigs sometimes you get 3 sometimes you get 5 in a litter. so a 3 by 3 pen might seem manageable but once you open the door all animals tend to try and escape

[krunjar]

Well there's nothing to actually STOP me from slaughtering two piglets if I get five and don't want them. It's not as though it's a big loss XD. The only thing the breeding pair needs to keep churning them out is enough food and water to live and a clean pen.

[Sarah Palin]

Originally posted by krunjar:

Well there's nothing to actually STOP me from slaughtering two piglets if I get five and don't want them. It's not as though it's a big loss XD. The only thing the breeding pair needs to keep churning them out is enough food and water to live and a clean pen.

Yea but that hurts my soul a little lol.

Well also I feel like I’m wasting meat somehow if I kill them before they’re full grown

[krunjar]

That's livestock for you .. It's not a pretty existence if you want efficiency XD If you kill them right away you're not really wasting much at all. The tricky bit is if you keep them alive long enough to sex since I THINK hogs produce more meat than sows. But since you're not buying them upfront sows are still a huge profit. Honestly we should be able to tell the piglets sex at birth. It can't be hard to look to see if they have a plug or a socket lol.

Anyway the point is at birth your investment in the piglet is minimal. It's not a big loss but by the time it gets to the size you buy them from the store at it's eaten a decent amount of grain and drank some water. Plus taken time for pooper scooping. So if you're going to cull .. It's best to cull early.

I can understand wanting to be nice about it but nice doesn't make the sausages XD

Also nothing to stop you from making extra solo pens just in case you get a bigger litter. From what I understand food or water don't go bad in the troughs.