Question on animal feeding

[AirToob]

I have 3 tame Uffens in the settlement (great for settler happiness and manure supply) but one drawback is that filling their feeder from a stockpile of hay is not something drones will do, It is a ranching activity, and one of my survivors will break off doing something way out in the boondocks to go all the way back to the settlement to haul hay to the feeder.

The stockpile of hay is right there next to the Uffens... could they not help themselves from the stockpile? If I cut off restocking of the feeder then they starve.

I am reluctant to confine the ranching person to the settlement using areas or some other means - wondering if anyone else has dealt with this problem or knows an easy way of solving it?

[Flin Fredstone]

If it helps. I find this to be the easy way.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1324130/discussions/0/4033602629921421552/#c4033602629923794694

In this case i also turned off petting of the Ulfens so it was only poop collecting.

[AirToob]

Thanks again, Flin.

[Stimpacker]

I asked a similar question too that started the thread Flin pointed you too. Some notes I learned since then:
1) Turn off Ranching to avoid the dumb need to restock feeder every time it drops from 100 hay to 95.
2) Turning off Ranching also means no training.
3) You can turn off petting for Ulfens but characters will still "visit" other herbivores (that don't have petting) and bond with them.

Overall, another dumb miss by devs in that "transporting" animal feed cannot be done by drones or droids. Plus the miss with not being able to turn off "visiting" tamed animals. It's annoying when the base itself is full of leisure/relaxing activities and yet they insist on going outside to "visit" farm animals to relax which are usually not near the base.

[OverThere]

Transporting animal feed can be done by drones. It just has to be done manually.

I like Broodmothers for all the carbon fiber they generate and the extra ranged firepower during attacks. However, feeding them is a pain.

I've ranching turned off to avoid the collosal waste of time it causes. The price is manually looking every morning at the feeder. If low, I click on a delivery drone then right click on a feeder and select 'feed'. The drone then drops whatever it is doing and carts a full load of the most easily accessed designated feed to the feeder.

Sadly, all this has to be done manually. I could wait for the 'animal starving' notification, but I like my Broodmothers in max health for all the carbon fiber production.