Help with infection pasture.

[Cuagai]

One of my sheep pasture got infected and after a few months it gone and all my animals for that pasture have die. Now the pasture itself is empty, but the option to put sheep there is avalible. However, after 2 seasons I'm still not seeing any sheep in the pasture. Now it was my one and only pasture that have sheep, I don't have a second one that have sheep in it. Does this mean even though the option is still there, I have to buy new animals from trader?

[therealjohnconnor]

Yes.

[a.riches]

Sheep do not spontaneously appear.

Buy more sheep.

[wcbarney]

You have to buy new sheep & let them grow. Meanwhile, don't keep your herdsmen assigned when there is nothing for them to do. When you do get a new pasture full of sheep, then make two herds (split your herd when it reaches 10). That way you won't lose 100% of your herd at once. Also, even when you've got several successful pastures:

1. Don't have pastures of the same animals adjacent to each other -- the same sheep/cow/chicien bug will infect every adjacent pasture with the same animals.

2. Keep an empty pasture as a standby emergency measure. When the bug hits, then quickly split your herd into the empty pasture. You can also try moving the entire herd there in an attempt to save them all, but I think that I've had animals die anyway, even after being moved.

3. The remaining herd in the infectured pasture: There is a "butcher" slider at the bottom of the pasture window -- move this all the way left to zero, and your herdsmen will butcher all the remaining animals in the pasture. So you will at least salvage a couple of thousand food units.

[Firathmagi]

splitting/relocating doesnt spread the infection?

[Redeye]

just relocate the animals to a new pasture, then put them back. Resolved. PLan B is to kill them all off. Good idea to always have more than one of the same pasture so you canr esupply quickly

[Cuagai]

I see, thank a lot for the advice guys. Guss I should always have a free pasature set up just incase something happen.

[City Builder]

If you're low on trading resources you can buy one sheep and it will be a pregnant female as she/it will produce a lamb by herself. That's what I did, I could only afford the 600 so I just bought one sheep and she/it had a lamb in a season or two.

[Cat]

No need to keep an empty pasture. Keep two full ones instead, then when one gets infested, slaughter all the animals in it and then split one of the full pastures.

[Norwegianjesus]

I agree with Cat. An empty pasture is not making food for your people.

[Moosemedford]

A system that I have found to work nicely: I build 6 20x20 livestock pens which are located in pairs with each pair well removed from the other two pairs. There is also a storage barn near each pair of pens. I run with two pens of sheep, two of cows, and one with chickens. I make sure that I NEVER have two pens of the same animal type adjacent to each other. The pen with nothing has production turned off so it doesn't cost me any man-power, just the initial resources to build and the land space.

When a disaster hits one of my animal types, I immediately pause the game and move animals around. If I can move from the infected pen to the empty without having same animals side-by-side, then I just do that. If not, then I shuffle around by vacating a different animal type to the empty, which creats a new and then vacating the infected animals to the new empty.

As soon as you vacate a pen that has infection, provided there are no animals of the same type in nearby pens (the reason for never having same types side by side) the infection quickly dies out in a matter of minutes. You can see the yellow cloud kind of stay there hovering and then it fairly quickly dies out. Doing it this way, I never lose more than a few animals (much less a whole herd) to an infection. And that is well worth the cost of keeping an empty unmanned pen imo.

Cheers,
Moose