how to put hay bale in with horses?

[Cellfire]

how to put hay bale in with horses?

[crgallen]

I am having trouble as well trying to put food in the medium barn for the horses. It did initially take the hay (used full hay bale) and dropped it on the drop point but that isn't working now. My horses are almost out of food because I can't seem to give them any. Guessing another bug.

[Delle(DK)]

a guess, you need to put the hay bales into the Food mixer machine and maybe also mix it with other food types ( but not sure ) unfortunatly the ingame wiki is a bit limited with information.

[Cellfire]

well i hope i can work it out soon
all this riding i got to do every day i am not sure they are worth it

[Cellfire]

ooo does it not take hay if you 100% filled it on oats?

as my total food is 11500 and now they eaten some oats - down to 10k oats left i have 1500hay in barn now

[crgallen]

I decided to try selling my medium barn and bought the small one. I can load the Hay no problem but no luck loading oats. Going go give up on the horses until a patch comes out. I also watched a video that said he basically had a horse for 1 year and it only reached a total value of $2000

[Cellfire]

mines 18months and 2800 atm

i got both foods in now

[Cellfire]

barn can only hold 11500 food of all types.
so if you fill it 100% full of oats you cant add hay

[lodewijk [NL}]

Escrito originalmente por Cellfire:

barn can only hold 11500 food of all types.
so if you fill it 100% full of oats you cant add hay

yes i believe it works like this for all animal barns that take multiple food sources.

the largest cow barn holds 60.000 food total. but you can feed them grass, hay, and mixed ration. so to evenly load the barn up you would do 20.000 of each. but im also pretty sure that if you used mixed ration you are getting 100% efficiency, so its better to just fill it up 100% with whatever is the best food for the animal you have.

[crgallen]

Thank you!!!

[Holyvision]

Maxed horses are only about ~5000 profit now they got lowered a lot from FS19, which honestly is as it should be because they were way too over-profitable.

[shadowsc133]

Escrito originalmente por lodewijk NL}:

Escrito originalmente por Cellfire:

barn can only hold 11500 food of all types.
so if you fill it 100% full of oats you cant add hay

yes i believe it works like this for all animal barns that take multiple food sources.

the largest cow barn holds 60.000 food total. but you can feed them grass, hay, and mixed ration. so to evenly load the barn up you would do 20.000 of each. but im also pretty sure that if you used mixed ration you are getting 100% efficiency, so its better to just fill it up 100% with whatever is the best food for the animal you have.

Wow, if this is correct then how do you remove food or hay in excess?? So poorly designed.

[Cellfire]

you wait

[Red-Beret "Kitten"]

Escrito originalmente por Cellfire:

how to put hay bale in with horses?

I had to do a lot of trial and error with this. I have a ranch where I'm completely self sufficient in feeding my animals. For horses, I round bale at 180 size and then ground everything up in a mixer. I then drive it up to the drop off point for the horse barn (I did it in the medium size one) and basically drop off all my loose hay that way. The mixing issue is a real pain, honestly. Horses require a few different foods (grain and hay) to be the happiest.

This is the most efficient way I've found. I was scooping with a tiny shovel on a front-loader at first into a trailer (omg, the man hours I've wasted) and then I evolved into, FINALLY, using a forager; picking up all the loose hay and either storing it that way or pouring directly into the stable. MUCH more easier!

/smh

So I just feed 'em hay and occasionally, I'll fill up the empty spots with oats or the soram stuff. But yea, grind those suckers up in a mixer and drop it off that way. Waaaay easier!

[jollibee]

it wont let me add oats for my horses, i havent tried giving them hay yet. Do i always need a mixer or can't i just dump oats in the feed area?