Animals Disappearing From Pastures

[Inanna]

Does anyone know why this is happening?

The first time it happened I brought some cows from the merchant, had a pen already built, they moved in fine. The pen could hold 10 cows. They bred to 6 then started just disappearing. Not being slaughtered, I watched them blink out of exsistence. Tried moving them to a new pasture, changing herdsmen anything I could think of. But they all just vanished.

Next it happened with some sheep. Same thing except I bred them until I could split them between two pastures. Then one pasture stopped breeding altogether and the other filled up to 10 sheep then they all started disappearing.

Is it some kind of disease that my livestock have? Is it a bug?

Anyone with any tips or info please help! I love this game but this is driving me nuts. TIA.

[ebrumby]

Are you playing with mods? I really think this problem increased after one of the Banished updates. I mentioned it to Kralyerg at BlackLiquidSoftware.com and he increased the age at which livestock die for Colonial Charter 1.7 which seems to have resolved the problem when you use that mod.

[mbutton15]

I used to have 1 worker per pasture. Then one time my sheep started dying so I added a second worker to that pasture and they started breeding again. Since then I've kept 2 workers for each sheep pasture, but still 1 for cows/chickens.

[Inanna]

I do have a few mods running, but only small ones that increase what my people can carry and what my plots produce. I'll try adding more workers. Thanks for the tips. :)

[Bones]

This happened to the wife last week. She lost two sheep (not at the same time) after buying them from the merchant. She bought 6 and lost 1 while they were still at the trading post.

She had left them there for some time because her pasture took a while to build, so she thought maybe it was due to that. After moving them to the pasture, they bred up to 7 and then another went missing.

No mods and a clean install as she decided to pick it up again after watching me play.

[ebrumby]

Livestock have a lifespan (not sure how long). If you leave them at the Trading Post too long they die. If you leave them there a long time and move them to a pasture "just in time", they may die anyway. I always build a 10x10 pasture near my trading post to act as a holding pen while I build a Pasture. That will hold 5 cows, or 6 sheep.

The problem is that it appears the lifespan of animals went down a bit because more of us were finding that our livestock was dying. I would split a heard of 10 and all of the animals in one pasture would die off. That's why Cololonial Charter increased the lifespan in their mod.