Pigs breed like rabbits

[Paladwyn]

I started with 2 pigs and now I can't keep up. I have a few dozen coolers filled with pork and empty about 4 per day into sausages. They have made me quite wealthy and they just keep coming. I regularly have to cull their numbers down just so they stop breeding.

Not really complaining, but it would be nice to have a way to slow them down, or castrate them in some way.

[Wumblz]

I ended up with 60....still getting through turning the pork into salami after slaughtering them all and moving to dairy cows.

I was thinking of trying to have 3 pig enclosures next, so segregate the males and females, then have a third area just for breeding...

[lillimolly]

I put the male alone in an enclosure...but you have to leave some space between the enclosures. The male can also go through the fence ..... !
I had the same problem at the beginning ^^

[Wumblz]

Originally posted by lillimolly:

I put the male alone in an enclosure...but you have to leave some space between the enclosures. The male can also go through the fence ..... !
I had the same problem at the beginning ^^

Thanks! That's good to know

[bendigo (1983-2023) RIP]

If you make different pens that are at least 4x4 fence units and seperate them by at least 1 gate length, you can seperate males and females so they do not breed.

if you have one pen for pregnanr female you can monitor the young ones then seperate them as soon as they show gender.

you can add a breeding pen too if you want to get really into it. That way you can somewhat control which pair breeds.

Keeping only 4 breeding age pigs at a time will make things much more managable.

[Paladwyn]

Originally posted by bendigo:

If you make different pens that are at least 4x4 fence units and seperate them by at least 1 gate length, you can seperate males and females so they do not breed.

if you have one pen for pregnanr female you can monitor the young ones then seperate them as soon as they show gender.

you can add a breeding pen too if you want to get really into it. That way you can somewhat control which pair breeds.

Keeping only 4 breeding age pigs at a time will make things much more managable.

Yeah, I was trying to come up with an easy way to separate them, I could still figure something out.

My solution that seemed to help is to wait for a batch of piglets, then perform pigicide and remove everything that isn't a piglet.

That gives me a considerable number of days before they are adult and breeding again. Lets me start building the cow barn.

[bendigo (1983-2023) RIP]

Originally posted by Paladwyn:

Originally posted by bendigo:

If you make different pens that are at least 4x4 fence units and seperate them by at least 1 gate length, you can seperate males and females so they do not breed.

if you have one pen for pregnanr female you can monitor the young ones then seperate them as soon as they show gender.

you can add a breeding pen too if you want to get really into it. That way you can somewhat control which pair breeds.

Keeping only 4 breeding age pigs at a time will make things much more managable.

Yeah, I was trying to come up with an easy way to separate them, I could still figure something out.

My solution that seemed to help is to wait for a batch of piglets, then perform pigicide and remove everything that isn't a piglet.

That gives me a considerable number of days before they are adult and breeding again. Lets me start building the cow barn.

I do the same thing with cattle. I haven't started with other animals, but it is how i like to do it. It is how we did things on the ranch my dad worked on when I was a kid. Basically separated everything that could breed until we wanted them to breed. Anything we didn't want to be breeding was set to the feed pens to get fat before becoming meat...

[💖jurassic💖rappy32💖]

That's why I'm switching to goats

[terry]

Originally posted by Paladwyn:

Originally posted by bendigo:

If you make different pens that are at least 4x4 fence units and seperate them by at least 1 gate length, you can seperate males and females so they do not breed.

if you have one pen for pregnanr female you can monitor the young ones then seperate them as soon as they show gender.

you can add a breeding pen too if you want to get really into it. That way you can somewhat control which pair breeds.

Keeping only 4 breeding age pigs at a time will make things much more managable.

Yeah, I was trying to come up with an easy way to separate them, I could still figure something out.

My solution that seemed to help is to wait for a batch of piglets, then perform pigicide and remove everything that isn't a piglet.

That gives me a considerable number of days before they are adult and breeding again. Lets me start building the cow barn.

Except pigs breed at 2 days old in this game.
I bought a breeding pair on day 0. They had piglets on day 1,3,5,7,9, etc.
The piglets born on day 1 had piglets on day 3,5,7,9, etc. I know it was those piglets because I had separated them into other pens away from the original breeding pair.
By day 10 I had over 50 pigs.

[bendigo (1983-2023) RIP]

You didn't seperate them soon enough... :)

[terry]

Originally posted by bendigo:

You didn't seperate them soon enough... :)

I separated the piglets from the breeding pair the day they were born. The point is: Pigs have piglets at 2 days old and pigs breed every 2 days.

[Wumblz]

Originally posted by terry:

Originally posted by bendigo:

You didn't seperate them soon enough... :)

I separated the piglets from the breeding pair the day they were born. The point is: Pigs have piglets at 2 days old and pigs breed every 2 days.

Okay, and what's your issue with that?

[terry]

Originally posted by Wumblz:

Originally posted by terry:

I separated the piglets from the breeding pair the day they were born. The point is: Pigs have piglets at 2 days old and pigs breed every 2 days.

Okay, and what's your issue with that?

Like OP said: They breed like rabbits. The speed at which the animals reproduce/grow makes me feel like im playing some kind of a fantasy game instead of a sim. I dont think it should be day for day as in real life, but they are way too fast in this game IMO.

[bendigo (1983-2023) RIP]

As soon as the pigs visually appear asfemale or not female, they can breed. So you have to watch very close and seperate them immediately. Or seperate them all into individual pens as soon as they stop following the mother, then see what gender they are and put them in male or female only pens. If you don't catch it before the endo of the day that they reach breeding age, they start to multiply at a rate that can become unmanageable.

So if they were breeding before you seperated them, it was too late.

[Paladwyn]

I ended up cutting back severely on pigs. I have one female that I tagged as the breeder. I slaughter any female pigs as soon as I notice them. I let the males grow to full size then slaughter them.

It still produces a lot of pigs, and occasionally I will gut back all the males to piglets, just to give the old sow some rest :D

[Damian]

what i do is put an animal trailer beside my pighouse. its got a lotta windows and i manage the pigs getting close to the window and than add them to the animal trailer. than i drive to the place were you can sell them park the trailer within the red lines and shoot and skin the there. make sure you don.t sell the trailer. it gets me about a lotta money without getting them out off the pighouse. i use two grinders and two sausage makers on two tables. the electric ones. it halves the time making sausages