Items in Animal Feeders not counting as inventory?

[Adam_Spokane]

The slop that is going into the animal feeder is not being considered when executing crafting limits. As in, "make slop until 20", even if I have 100 slop in animal feeders it will continue making slop until I have 20 in other storage.

[Flin Fredstone]

Indeed. A bit annoying since the feeder gets stocked up after each chow afaik and thus crafting will commence as well. And you can't limit the amount in the feeder so you keep on crafting until the feeder is full and then drop the set quantity from the bench in the storage.

May i ask what type of animal you're feeding ? Omni/Herbivore or a Carnivore ?

[Stimpacker]

This is why I don't make slop.
Herbivores are fed hay using Flin's method of just planting a grass field.
Carnivores are fed dried meat that I get to choose when and how many to dry on a rack.
Also slop makes animals unhappy.

The "Ranching" activity needs some tuning. When enabled, ranchers will continuously refill the animal feeder after every bite they take - annoyingly inefficient and wasteful since food in the feeder rots.

[Flin Fredstone]

@Stimpacker

If you have tamed carnivores could you make them feed on tamed herbivores you keep separate ?

[Stimpacker]

Haha Flin! It's actually possible but I see 2 possible issues.
1) You can't turn off relaxation activity "visiting animal" (it's not petting) so death of bonded herbivores might not be welcomed.
2) The carnivores will attack the herbivores only when they are starving. They may attack other things or each other. Seen it only once on YT, the starving animal killed all other animals, not just 1.

[Adam_Spokane]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

Indeed. A bit annoying since the feeder gets stocked up after each chow afaik and thus crafting will commence as well. And you can't limit the amount in the feeder so you keep on crafting until the feeder is full and then drop the set quantity from the bench in the storage.

May i ask what type of animal you're feeding ? Omni/Herbivore or a Carnivore ?

I was using slop for a dog

[bmnoble981]

Just feed the carnivores bug meat, herbivores hay, slop you should only use for emergencies when for some reason your main food sources run out of stock either with a winter cold snap/toxic ash killing off your hay fields or using up your bug meat stocks for other crafting tasks.

Make sure to put the feeder underneath one of the animal shelters roofs so that it lasts as long as possible with the under roof status.

Never noticed slop making the animals unhappy though, I know it will make your people take a hit to their happiness if they eat it.