Raising a baby quetz

[123]

How many troughs of cooked meat will I need to leave a juvinile quetz alone for around 12 hours? If its possible

[Maireen]

Official server? Depends if area is in stasis or kept active 24/7. Also which phase of juvenile.
Old site but still good for dinos up to v242.8 http://ark.crumplecorn.com/breeding/

[123]

Thanks for that link!! Can you confirm its accurate?

Originally posted by Maireen:

Official server? Depends if area is in stasis or kept active 24/7. Also which phase of juvenile.
Old site but still good for dinos up to v242.8 http://ark.crumplecorn.com/breeding/

[Outdated]

depends totally if its offical that link will help u figure out how much time u have on ur feeding throughs like how fast the meat spoils in which if ur going to go out for long periods of time make 1 feeding through full of regular meat and 2 full of cooked meat.. they eat more of the cooked meat but it has longer spoil time meaning u can expand the time and to save it from being bloody
or dead

[Baby need milk]

Now heres what I do

Fill baby full on cooked meat, when that's done leave the extra in the trough, I do this for about 3 troughs.

Go on every so often, More is better

[123]

How long can you go without feeding it?

Originally posted by Handsome Rhys:

Now heres what I do

Fill baby full on cooked meat, when that's done leave the extra in the trough, I do this for about 3 troughs.

Go on every so often, More is better

[Maireen]

Originally posted by Delta:

How long can you go without feeding it?

Well a stack of raw meat last roughly 13 hrs while cook meat last 40 hrs.

[🦊 Hermit]

Carnivores will also eat jerky if there's nothing else available, won't they? And that lasts even longer?

[Kazarl]

Originally posted by Hermit:

Carnivores will also eat jerky if there's nothing else available, won't they? And that lasts even longer?

they do but main thing is if other players enter your area often if your only regular player in area one feeding trough is enough to keep a juvenile quetzal alive along with 2-3 other juvenile critters for up to 10 hours but if others are playing that will only keep them alive for about 2-3 hours

[Baby need milk]

Originally posted by Delta:

How long can you go without feeding it?

Originally posted by Handsome Rhys:

Now heres what I do

Fill baby full on cooked meat, when that's done leave the extra in the trough, I do this for about 3 troughs.

Go on every so often, More is better

A full quetz for about 80 pounds of cooked meat, has lasted more than 4 hours for me. Getting meat should be easy.

[ุpyro]

Like Maireen said, it mostly depends on the area or more accurately, weather your baby is kept in stasis or if it is rendered.

Food consumption when rendered is at 100%, and when it is in stasis, food consumption drops to around 15%. Additionally food consumption is dropping linearly depending on baby maturation progress.
From what I have gathered so far, just hatched baby quetz will eat 2,5 meat/min fully rendered. When it passes to juvenile stage it will eat around 2,2 meat/min. Meat refers to raw meat. You need 2 cooked meat to substitute 1 raw meat. (these values may be off a bit)

From my calculations, constantly rendered juvenile quetz, will need around 120 stacks of cooked meat to last 12 hours. This is quite expensive. However 60 stacks of raw meat and 60 stacks of cooked meat will suffice for almost 13 hours as well. Here: http://prnt.sc/dg11e5 is my feeding trough simulator for 100% juvenille quetz consumption with 60 stacks of raw and 60 stacks of cooked meat.
If you have your baby in stasis the whole time, it only needs around 35 stacks of raw meat, yes raw.

(If anyone wanders, I stack raw meat to 19 pieces, and cooked meat to 29 pieces, just to be on the safe side)