Hay spoil time

[Fang Yuan]

I made so much to find out that it spoils in less than a year, is this really accurate??

[NoctiSilva]

yes, but it can be extended by cooling it. Freezing it will make it last forever.

[kevinshow]

It just means you have a deficient amount of pets. Get to taming more of them!

But seriously, one solution I ended up with is to make a barn that had a room that is refrigerated. The animals sleep in one room of the barn, and they can walk in to the refrigerated side and eat it themselves and it won't spoil. Of course, once you have that set up, you could just freeze it too, so that it would never have a chance of spoiling.

As a side note, I recently began preferring to use the hay or other vegetable matter to make kibble. Kibble doesn't need refrigeration or freezing and it helps work up some lower-level cooking skills of some of the colonists. You never know when your main cook(s) will kick the bucket so having a few backup cooks should help in this case. Just limit the range of cooking skill so that only those with lower skills will make the kibble (and then make sure they are set to do cooking).

[Tyrant]

hay is dried grass and yess dried grass rots away,
a tip is to turn it into silage or kible

[Eggy]

As above. Freeze the hay in a small specific hay freezer close to your butchers table.
Alter your kibble tasks to NOT use vegies. So the kibble is made from hay, meat and animal products.
I then put small kibble storage areas at all entrances to my base and outside my food storage. To help stop animals eating my prepared meals.

[Zalzany]

Hay spoils its dry, and it sucks up moisture from the air, and gets moldy over time, you would need to sotre it in a sealed storage space prefably with cooler to regulate it to make it last a long time. You don't tend to use the same batch of hey fora life time unless your using it for like archery target practice and don't care if it gets un edible for live stock.

I just grow what I think is a nough, leth them eat it in winter and grow mroe or less the next growing season. If its year round just let it pile up and then halt resowing of the feild, till that gets low.

[TSense]

just cooling makes it last for 2+ years.
And hitten +9°C is easier than -1°C.

How about a 2x3 room with 2 or 3 passiv coolers. Only one door so they don't open it all the time

[bigsengineer]

Originally posted by TSense:

just cooling makes it last for 2+ years.
And hitten +9°C is easier than -1°C.

How about a 2x3 room with 2 or 3 passiv coolers. Only one door so they don't open it all the time

passive coolers dont lower temp that much