Dromedary in animal pen diet

[mussij]

Trying to sort what to Auto-cut, will they eat bushes, berry bushes and agave?

[Jaggid Edje]

Yes for sure to the bushes, and "I think so" to the other two.

It seems like they eat pretty much any plant that isn't a tree. Grow rate matters though, so I personally would recommend auto-cutting anything that doesn't grow quickly.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Grow rate matters though, so I personally would recommend auto-cutting anything that doesn't grow quickly.

If you do that it's generally just going to end up barren. Slow growing is better than no growth at all, which is generally what you're going to get if you cut things unnecessarily.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Grow rate matters though, so I personally would recommend auto-cutting anything that doesn't grow quickly.

If you do that it's generally just going to end up barren. Slow growing is better than no growth at all, which is generally what you're going to get if you cut things unnecessarily.

The plants that grow the fastest also spread well. On my current map, for example, dandelions and grass spread quite quickly inside my compound walls where I cut anything that grows slow.

Perhaps if you have too-small pens or are in a biome without any faster growing natural plants it makes sense to leave slow-growing wild plants . But at that point, worrying about what to cut instead of just planting something decent and/or growing hay is rather pointless.

There's a mod called Smart Farming which you can use to prevent pawns from running to plant every time an animal grazes, so there's no reason not to use grow zones inside pens at that point.

[Astasia]

The biome tries to maintain a certain density of plants (including trees) in any given area, RNG controls which types of plants but by cutting unwanted ones you can shift the plants in that area to be more favorable. Grass is by far the best plant to graze on, growing like over twice the nutrition per day of any other non-harvested plant, if you cut everything except grass you can pretty quickly fill your grazing area with just grass and provide more nutrition per day for your animals. It's important to note that animals usually don't remove grass when they eat it, they just reduce the growth stage, so locking grass into a tile often lasts the entire lifespan of that grass plant, and eventually you wont have to cut as many plants every day. It's still a fair bit of work though depending on the size of the grazing area, and you could provide more nutrition per day by just increasing the size of the pen instead, so whether you want to cut low nutrition plants or not is going to depend on how you have your colony setup and how much space you want to dedicate to a pen.