Animals are a no-win situation.

[PKNecron]

I have several muffalos and some camals and wolves for extra hauling. Issue is the damn animals always eat my growing crops instead on the 3000+ kibble and hay outside their enclosure. There needs to be a way to allow animals to be unrestricted for hauling purposes, but restrict them to ONLY eating the animal feed and grass and not crops.

[lalala]

Farmer: I let my cows on the field, they eat my crops.... solution: don't let them on the field?

Zones FTW

[grapplehoeker]

Grazing animals need a lot of space (pasture) with plenty of grass and dandelions for them to wander around and forage from naturally. You can and should sow your hay fields here too. Make the whole area an animal zone and restrict your animals to it. They will forage from the area and only require a little feed if necessary. In fact, I only feed mine if and when I have to bring them all inside their roofed enclosure in times of toxic fallout, or if they are on the verge of over population and it is time to literally thin the herd.
On no account grow your crops for colonist use within the animal zone and as long as you keep them seperated, there is no way your animals can eat the crops.

[PKNecron]

Originally posted by roadricus:

Farmer: I let my cows on the field, they eat my crops.... solution: don't let them on the field?

Zones FTW

Haulers need to be set to unrestricted... they eat crops too. Meat eaters are usually decent about eating Kibble, but plant eats are terrors.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by PKNecron:

Originally posted by roadricus:

Farmer: I let my cows on the field, they eat my crops.... solution: don't let them on the field?

Zones FTW

Haulers need to be set to unrestricted... they eat crops too. Meat eaters are usually decent about eating Kibble, but plant eats are terrors.

Haulers do not need to be set to unrestricted.
You just have to configure the animal area to include your dumping zones, production areas and so forth but exclude your agriculture.
For unrestricted hauling all over the map, use only your meat eaters.

[Mathew_01]

I have several pets for hauling (labs, hyskeys, wolves) and none of them go for my growing crops. They go for food in storage, bodies, and will snatch the meals right out of my colonists hands, but they never go for my growing grops. Are you playing with mods?

[Brassqund]

Originally posted by PKNecron:

Originally posted by roadricus:

Farmer: I let my cows on the field, they eat my crops.... solution: don't let them on the field?

Zones FTW

Haulers need to be set to unrestricted... they eat crops too. Meat eaters are usually decent about eating Kibble, but plant eats are terrors.

Meat eater + pawn hauler = farm
Plant eater = everywhere except farm

I only get a lot of animals once I am really good with food so
even if they eat some of my crops, I don't care... I still got like 1000 rice/corn to sell :p

Also you say muffalo, dromedary and wolves... but there is only the wolves
who haul. Muffalo and dromedary got no reason to be in your field.

[Marbaus]

Use inverted zones to protect your crops while allowing your animals to go 'everywhere' else. That might help a little.

[ministrog]

@OP
Do the normal thing with animal zones, but select all the areas you really don't want the animals to be in. You know the growing fields, the freezer, the kitchen, etc. Then go into the manage zones menu and find the freshly made zone. Hit the invert button.

You're welcome.

Edit:

Originally posted by Marbaus:

Use inverted zones to protect your crops while allowing your animals to go 'everywhere' else. That might help a little.

dammit you beat me

[PKNecron]

Originally posted by Schrödinger:

@OP
Do the normal thing with animal zones, but select all the areas you really don't want the animals to be in. You know the growing fields, the freezer, the kitchen, etc. Then go into the manage zones menu and find the freshly made zone. Hit the invert button.

You're welcome.

Edit:

Originally posted by Marbaus:

Use inverted zones to protect your crops while allowing your animals to go 'everywhere' else. That might help a little.

dammit you beat me

Thx to both of you, I had no idea you could do this.