Cheapest way to feed animals

[JB-emmanuel-Zorg]

I have 2 dromedaries (self tamed), don't want that they go too far from around the base, so now, there is no grass anymore,around, so i need to feed them, my farm is indoor, i planted some grass to harvest hay, that was done and the hay gone very fast, as each time a drom eat, it's 20 hay...
Is it better that i allow them to enter the indoor farm area (as they can eat what they want), or i allow them to go into my fridge to eat what they want (rice, simple meal, etc...), or do i need to make kibbles?
What is the cheapest way to feed them?

[Dutch Person]

Quickest: Rice
Cheapest:Outdoor Hay, but if you can't grow outdoors or if the growing season is short you CAN use corn. But that would still require quite a bit of indoor growing space which is expensive and timeconsuming to build. However corn has pretty much the best space-to-yield ratio (that's what I call it). By that I mean corn requires the least amount of space to produce the same amount of nutritional points as other plants, however corn does take longer to plant, grow and harvest.

[Dutch Person]

You can always give them dead raider meat too if you have some carnivores. I'm not sure if dromedaries eat meat since I never really own them. I always have chickens or muffaloo's.

[Ant Ra]

Plantzones with Dandelion, Daylily and Roses. I prefer Dandelion. But it´s cheap and normally useful for smaller animals around a stable/farm. A substituion..

[Dutch Person]

Originally posted by Nopel:

Plantzones with Dandelion, Daylily and Roses. I prefer Dandelion. But it´s cheap and normally useful for smaller animals around a stable/farm. A substituion..

That works too, bad as he said only as a substitute for other foods. Considering the fact that your dromedaries eat a fair bit.

[Astasia]

Haygrass is by far the most efficient crop to grow for nutrition. Don't let them eat any live crop as you lose a good chunk of the nutrition. Making kibble isn't remotely worth it for animals that can eat hay. If an animal will not eat hay, then kibble is a way to extend limited meat sources and use up human and insect meat.

[Ant Ra]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Haygrass is by far the most efficient crop to grow for nutrition. Don't let them eat any live crop as you lose a good chunk of the nutrition. Making kibble isn't remotely worth it for animals that can eat hay. If an animal will not eat hay, then kibble is a way to extend limited meat sources and use up human and insect meat.

Yes. Kibble is to expencive in production and valuable for taming and training.

[elipod]

Kibble is fast to make, tough. It's good way to preserve spoilng meat, if fridge is failing or is too small.

[avil]

If you have a lot of unusable meat (insects, humanlikes), and some growables, is better to make pemmican and feed it to animals. It preserved well and twice more nutritional than kibble. You also can feed them just normal simple meals. But it requires feed scheduling and hard to keep up when you have a big herd (since meals spoil quickly). I think, even nutrien paste is possible food.
BUt if you have enough space to grow, better to use haygrass.

[elipod]

Originally posted by avil:

... is better to make pemmican and feed it to animals. It preserved well and twice more nutritional than kibble....

since when 0.8 made from 0.5 is twice more nuitritional than 2.5 made from 2? Pemmican I's 1.28 more nutritonal than kiblle from same ingridients and takes about 4 times longer to cook.
It might be more efficient per input, but not per work time.
I, still, hadn't decided myself if cooking in general, is more worktime efficient than growing, because it's hauling nightmare. If yes, then cooking corn into meals would look decent, but only for big animals.

[Astasia]

Haygrass is a lot better than corn for animals. Haygrass is 0.0951 nutrition per day per plant, corn is 0.0692. That's why kibble is better than pemmican, you can't use haygrass in pemmican.

[elipod]

I tend to go hay myself, it's also better for storage, due to bigger stack size.
But for sake of argument: Kibble/pemmican also require meat input. Hay, by itself, can't be cooked into anything, corn can be cooked into meals. On paper, cooking 0.5 of corn into 0.9 meal will boost 0.0692 per plant into 0.1246. In practice, tough, not all animals can consume meals without overeating.

[JB-emmanuel-Zorg]

thank you very much to all! :)

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

Originally posted by elipod:

Kibble is fast to make, tough. It's good way to preserve spoilng meat, if fridge is failing or is too small.

you can make kibble from people , all you need is psyhopath trait butcher