Animal breeding

[Neoma]

Tamed 2 Yaks yesterday, logged back on to find 25 babies, how am i supposed to manage this?

My fizzy goats have also bred like they're going extinct.

Is there a way to limit breeding?

[Gaming Granpa]

Wow! I don't know how you got that effect at all. I put each type of animal into their own small pens, only the hophares have bred so far. Not even the flightless birds. I got the goats before I got anything else, and even they haven't bred yet. Do you have a video showing what you have done (as far as containing and feeding)?

hophare pen (short): https://youtu.be/YzfDOqddtcw
overall base (longer): https://youtu.be/AkcJSEHJp1Y

By the way, I originally build fences to pen in the animals, but the goats just jumped over the fence.

[Neoma]

Here is one screenshot, hopefully you can view the others i've uploaded

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/26553670364173783/9E55EEE5D8E72DA330418622CBDED84BEF777516/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[PakaNoHida]

Have no extra beds.

[Gaming Granpa]

Originally posted by Neoma:

Here is one screenshot, hopefully you can view the others i've uploaded

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/26553670364173783/9E55EEE5D8E72DA330418622CBDED84BEF777516/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

NICE barn! All I could get was the screenshot you posted a link to, but are they all running loose inside? I think mine didn't breed so much because they are all in pens that are a little too small, due to being inside my main base. I wonder now if I shouldn't try to put some into a larger pen, and see it that causes them to breed faster. At least the hophares. The only thing they provide is the meat you get when you kill them, so it they were to breed faster I could take advantage of that. Otherwise, I try to keep mine fed, pet them, etc., and wait. Nothing like what you've reported happens to mine. Interesting.

[Gaming Granpa]

Well, I moved 2 hophares outside their pen (leaving 2 in the pen), added a roof (some pillars to support it, but open otherwise) and gave them a food dish and beds of their own. Today, there are still just 2 outside. Would love to think there is a secret to something you did that would cause the animals to breed faster, but I haven't found it yet. Did you maybe build a lot of beds and food dishes all at once?

[Gaming Granpa]

Ahhh! That seems to have been a good guess after all. They need the space! If the pen is big enough to allow for more, they breed!

[LyaranTirel]

Originally posted by Gaming Granpa:

Wow! I don't know how you got that effect at all. I put each type of animal into their own small pens, only the hophares have bred so far. Not even the flightless birds. I got the goats before I got anything else, and even they haven't bred yet. Do you have a video showing what you have done (as far as containing and feeding)?

hophare pen (short): https://youtu.be/YzfDOqddtcw
overall base (longer): https://youtu.be/AkcJSEHJp1Y

By the way, I originally build fences to pen in the animals, but the goats just jumped over the fence.

WTF? Goats jump the fences?
Thank you for the warning. I'm so building a WALL for those meatsacks

[Neoma]

Originally posted by Gaming Granpa:

Ahhh! That seems to have been a good guess after all. They need the space! If the pen is big enough to allow for more, they breed!

The pen or house for the goats isn't particularly large! I had 4 beds and 1 food bowl initially. How do they know how much space they have lol.

Thanks for your input

[Gaming Granpa]

The pen or house for the goats isn't particularly large! I had 4 beds and 1 food bowl initially. How do they know how much space they have lol.

I only build bed for the animals as I get them, and always just one food bowl. Ofc, the game has to have enough space to add another animal, same as you can't put one down sometimes - it says something about not enough build space. I still don't get 25, just one or two more at a time.

[Allisonlj]

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Have no extra beds.

^^^^^^ In case you missed the true answer ^^^^^^^^

Additionally--
I don't know that ALL animals can jump (haven't seen a boar jump) but all carnivores can jump, and they can jump as high as you can. If you can clear the fence so can they. Make sure the outside perimeter is equally secure, hostiles "shouldnt" (its been buggy) spawn inside your build boundaries but they will absolutely walk in from outside to munch on your herd.

[Wedge]

Animals constantly detach from their beds currently making it hard to fully control their breeding. It is supposed to be dependant on open bedding but with this bug happening you're going to end up with extras.

[Crimson]

Originally posted by Neoma:

Tamed 2 Yaks yesterday, logged back on to find 25 babies, how am i supposed to manage this?

My fizzy goats have also bred like they're going extinct.

Is there a way to limit breeding?

I don't know the game very well, but I'm guessing you use a server. The server probably keeps them breeding when you're offline which is why it yield so many as a result.

I would recommend turning off your server.

If you play single player however after looking on google and these comments, I got no bloody idea besides your guys breed like rabbits haha

[Neoma]

Originally posted by Crimson:

Originally posted by Neoma:

Tamed 2 Yaks yesterday, logged back on to find 25 babies, how am i supposed to manage this?

My fizzy goats have also bred like they're going extinct.

Is there a way to limit breeding?

I don't know the game very well, but I'm guessing you use a server. The server probably keeps them breeding when you're offline which is why it yield so many as a result.

I would recommend turning off your server.

If you play single player however after looking on google and these comments, I got no bloody idea besides your guys breed like rabbits haha

Well thank you! Yes indeed it's ran on a server, i should have thought of this, cheers dude!

[LudwigVH]

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Have no extra beds.

Makes no difference, I have 2 of every farm animal, one bed for each and they still breed.

[FREEZED]

i have 2 huge boxes full of farm animals for spare !

i do not know if those still can die to something but earlier i lost some of those so having couple extra was not bad thing.

also you can kill extra animals for meat