Feeding baby herbivores???

[(TEAMKILL)]

Doing my first herbivore baby. Whats the "current" feeding situation with berry eaters? Everything I found was old and most contradicted each other. I'm so confuzzed......

thx

[Cobretti]

Not sure what you mean.

When they are born they will have room for 5 of any berry in their inventory and from that point as their weight inrceases you can put more berry's in there.

Once they are Juvenilles, you can put the berry's in the trough

If you play solo and there is not much player traffic about, you can log out thereby putting them in stasis and they eat next to nothing which is handy if you dont want to spend time feeding them. More important when raising carnivore though.

[Speedbump]

That ^
Also, a baby becomes a juvenile at 10% maturity. You can tell its maturity by stuffing as much food as you can into its inventory and checking its weight, once it lets you place 10% of its max weight into the babies inventory it's a juvenile, because the weight it allows you to give the baby directly relates to its maturity %... If that makes sense.

[Tanya]

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

That ^
Also, a baby becomes a juvenile at 10% maturity. You can tell its maturity by stuffing as much food as you can into its inventory and checking its weight, once it lets you place 10% of its max weight into the babies inventory it's a juvenile, because the weight it allows you to give the baby directly relates to its maturity %... If that makes sense.

People forget to mention that when it reaches Juvenile it is CALLED on the nameplate Juvenile and then the baby's name or spieces if it has no name. It is kind of obvious xD

[(TEAMKILL)]

Thanks guys. Those are things I know from breeding bears. My question's are... what berries to use? Will veggies be better? If so how? Do they eat faster? Slower?

Side note. When I treid to google for info I saw people talking about putting hatcheries far away to allow babbies to go into stasis. But no specifics on how this would help/work exactly. What will this help?

Also, yes I play SP and yes that is handy for imprinting.

Thx much for any help

[Cobretti]

Originally posted by (TEAMKILL):

Thanks guys. Those are things I know from breeding bears. My question's are... what berries to use? Will veggies be better? If so how? Do they eat faster? Slower?

Side note. When I treid to google for info I saw people talking about putting hatcheries far away to allow babbies to go into stasis. But no specifics on how this would help/work exactly. What will this help?

Also, yes I play SP and yes that is handy for imprinting.

Thx much for any help

I use any berries, I don't recall if mejo fill them up more therefore your get more mileage out of them.

As for stasis breeding, I do this. How it helps is that babies in stasis eat hardly anything. For example, I recently hatched a doedi, it had 3 hours of baby stage left but due to inventory limits, I could only place 10 minutes of food in its invenotry. Nonetheless in stasis, those 10 mins kept the baby alive until it hit Juvenile and started eating from the trough. This is an extreme example which I don't usually do but I was dead tired and sleep was more important than keeping the baby alive.

If the baby is not in stasis, it will eat normally which is quite a bit which means especially for carnivores you are constantly farming food.

I use a raft parked on the edge of the world to hatch and breed in stasis but if you play SP, it is enough to build a 2nd base far enough away from your main base that you do not render the hatchery and try not to fly over it obviously. Somewhere out of the way like Herbi or Craig island is a good choice.

As you play SP, logging out puts everything on hold but it helps to stop a baby from eating like an animal when you are actually playing the game.

[TotallyUncool]

I feed mine mejoberries during the baby phase as they don't need to eat as often of those as other berries, and then I throw in all kind of berries in the trough when they're juvenile. You could feed them veggies (I guess they'll need to eat even less of those), but it would be a waste in my opinion.

If you're playing SP, I don't think you need to worry about stasis as everything gets put on hold whenever you log out. Otherwise, I guess it's because they consume less food while in stasis why people do that? I've never tried it myself and since our babies eat less on our server (private), it's not something I've felt the need to investigate either.

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Originally posted by Tanya:

Originally posted by Rick Mason:

That ^
Also, a baby becomes a juvenile at 10% maturity. You can tell its maturity by stuffing as much food as you can into its inventory and checking its weight, once it lets you place 10% of its max weight into the babies inventory it's a juvenile, because the weight it allows you to give the baby directly relates to its maturity %... If that makes sense.

People forget to mention that when it reaches Juvenile it is CALLED on the nameplate Juvenile and then the baby's name or spieces if it has no name. It is kind of obvious xD

Yes but you can use the weight to tell exactly how far it has to go. that's why I explained it.

[(TEAMKILL)]

Ok, thx guys.

Gonna be hatching two Therizinosaurus in a few, wish me luck =)

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Originally posted by Cobretti:

Originally posted by (TEAMKILL):

Thanks guys. Those are things I know from breeding bears. My question's are... what berries to use? Will veggies be better? If so how? Do they eat faster? Slower?

Side note. When I treid to google for info I saw people talking about putting hatcheries far away to allow babbies to go into stasis. But no specifics on how this would help/work exactly. What will this help?

Also, yes I play SP and yes that is handy for imprinting.

Thx much for any help

I use any berries, I don't recall if mejo fill them up more therefore your get more mileage out of them.

They do.
http://ark.gamepedia.com/Breeding

[TotallyUncool]

Originally posted by (TEAMKILL):

Ok, thx guys.

Gonna be hatching two Therizinosaurus in a few, wish me luck =)

Good luck! I have an adolescent Theri myself and she's taking her sweet time growing up... I didn't realize they took so long to mature when I hatched the egg.

[(TEAMKILL)]

bah, both were duds. Didn't get thier best'ies to cross. Neither was worth almost 5 days of imprinting.

thx again for the info's