Feeding pen animals

[Jyggalad]

i know pen animals can graze, however I'm a bit confused when it comes to hay. It says one of my animals are hungry, but I can't prioritize feeding them hay. Do I put the hay in a stockpile in the pen? Any ideas?

[Bleeding Eyes Mcgee]

i haven't tried out 1.3's ranching system yet, but the hay stockpile should work.

[Minty Fresh]

Originally posted by Justice Beaver:

Do I put the hay in a stockpile in the pen? Any ideas?

Yes, exactly that - they will eat whatever is in their pen. Chomp chomp chomp.

[Jyggalad]

Originally posted by Minty Fresh:

Originally posted by Justice Beaver:

Do I put the hay in a stockpile in the pen? Any ideas?

Yes, exactly that - they will eat whatever is in their pen. Chomp chomp chomp.

Awesome, thanks a bunch. I tried putting down hay floor to see if they'd eat that but that doesn't really work

[Lemdoran]

Yep, i use kibble personaly, that i put indoor with a batiment closed by the new "door" added by the mod (using leather / wool).

As long their is no wall / fence / normal door preventing the animals to acces it, it will be considered as "in the fence" and added to the foof available for them to eat.

technicaly you can just put a stockpill on an unroofed storage but it will be damaged by weather. So better do a little feeding house with walls & roof ;p

Also, when you select the little sign that you have to put to set an area to be a pen, you can click it and see the total "available" grazing food vs your animals consumption. If you lack too much of it, maybe just making a bigger area will be easier than making food over time. :)