Goats don't eat Brambles or Bushes in winter?

[Tribarrel]

I have two goats left, now, because my embark area swore up and down "oh yeah definitely it doesn't go under 30 degrees here" and it's -10 now. I had to slaughter their parents to make sure there would be food to go around, and they're being fed meat meals whenever they collapse, which is often.

There's Brambles and Bushes everywhere. They're not even dead-they specifically say Dormant. The goats are even grown into a Goat and a Doe, now.

Goats are *infamous* for being able to eat anything and everything, and IRL I had a friend whose goats ate so much of his blackberry bramble he found three riding mowers and a 40s pickup truck.

So what gives?

[liosalpha]

I suspect the game makes all plants barren/leaveless when they become dormant. For that same reason the game will not let you graze while on a caravan ad certain times.

Simple solution would eb to make them some kind of meal (with or with out human/insect meat)for the animals and put its stockpile in the barn. But make sure it does not get mix up with the diet of you colonist.

And in a cold snap like that, all the killed wild life stays fresh, so there should be plenty of meat out there for simple meals.

[Tribarrel]

Nah, this is natural winter. Just...didn't work out that way. Who the hell knows.

Also, leaflessness is no barrier to IRL goats. These suckers ate the leaves, the canes, EVERYTHING. If it has water in it, goats will go for it.

[Punyrock]

I'm assuming the branches are woody, and not many animals eat wood.

[Tribarrel]

Goats and donkeys do, believe you me. I work at a ranch, and whenever the local neighborhoods trim their mulberry trees we bring them the trimmings. They go NUTS for them. Hell, they'll even eat the shredded woodchips, not just the bark!

I've seen them eat dry mulberry leaves, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKpXSkQFZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-80UfS-UEko
Note that SOME canes are left, but everything remotely soft or edible is GONE. I'd represent this as bushes cut back to 10% Grown or 0% Grown, and Brambles to 10%.

This of course also ignores the ability to root through snow for dead grass underneath, which is a borderline universal behavior in anything that lives in a cold climate.

[liosalpha]

I have no doubte they can eat anything irl.

but in the game no so much. Just like nothing, pawn or animal, ever needs water. Eventhou there is water in the game.

[Bababooey]

Salt is not in game either which is weird.

[Punyrock]

Originally posted by Tribarrel:

Goats and donkeys do, believe you me. I work at a ranch, and whenever the local neighborhoods trim their mulberry trees we bring them the trimmings. They go NUTS for them. Hell, they'll even eat the shredded woodchips, not just the bark!

I've seen them eat dry mulberry leaves, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKpXSkQFZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-80UfS-UEko
Note that SOME canes are left, but everything remotely soft or edible is GONE. I'd represent this as bushes cut back to 10% Grown or 0% Grown, and Brambles to 10%.

This of course also ignores the ability to root through snow for dead grass underneath, which is a borderline universal behavior in anything that lives in a cold climate.

All I see from skimming the videos, is that the animals were eating leaf trimmings, and other soft things. Again, they ate the foliage. I still see plenty of branches on the bushes, which is pretty much what's left during winter.

[Tribarrel]

Look more closely at the second video, after you rewatch the first. There is a LOT of blackberry cane in that first video that is COMPLETELY GONE in the second.

If I still knew the guy I mentioned, I'd borrow his goats, go find someone with a blackberry problem (we have *loads*) and take a time lapse of them eating.

[Punyrock]

Originally posted by Tribarrel:

Look more closely at the second video, after you rewatch the first. There is a LOT of blackberry cane in that first video that is COMPLETELY GONE in the second.

If I still knew the guy I mentioned, I'd borrow his goats, go find someone with a blackberry problem (we have *loads*) and take a time lapse of them eating.

Cane as in hollowed stems that can be chewed by any normal grazing animal?
I stand corrected by myself, goats are actually browsers.

[Gentlest Giant]

The monkeys of the rim can't climb trees and the ducks can't swim. I'm sure there will be plenty more of reality disconnections for those who know animals well.
It's what it is.

[esculapio]

I just saw my goats eating brambles in winter.