Juveniles Starving w/ Plenty of food in trough?

[Hypersapien]

Hey folks- I'm a returning player who hasn't played since 2016. I'm enjoying the dino breeding stuff that wasn't in the game back them (as I recall), but I keep running into mishaps that get my babies (juveniles, actually) killed.

I'm breeding Tek Parasaurs (for the hell of it), and the first night of hatching eggs I had 3 juveniles. The next morning I returned and only one was alive. I figured I must have not left them with enough food and it was my mistake. The next night I had 5 juveniles, and this time I made SURE they were within range of a trough and that trough was stacked to the brim with berries.

I logged on this morning and only 1 juvenile survived. My tribe log lists the other 4 as all starving, at the exact same second. I checked my trough and it still had hundreds of berries remaining, not to mention that one of the juveniles survived just fine.

I'm inclined to think this is a bug, yes? Surely if they actually starved they wouldn't have all starved at the exact same second, given they had different levels/food stats. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? I'm wondering if the fact I neglected to name them had anything to do with it, like the game had a bug that detected 5 dinos with the name "juvenile tek parasaur" and thought they were all the same, so eliminated all but one?

if anyone knows what is going on I'd appreciate your feedback.

(Also, am I correct to understand that herbivores, such as parasaurs, will eat any berry? Not just the mejoberries they prefer when taming?)

[Hypersapien]

After digging through this forum for similar problems, I've found 2 hypotheses for why this happens. Both were player speculation so I'm not sure which, or either, is correct.

1) When there isn't an online player nearby and the server goes into stasis around that player's base, the way it handles feeding your tames behaves differently. A player suggested that a feeding trough may not work correctly and prioritize some dinos over others, and because juveniles and adolescents eat very frequently, it may focus on feeding a select few (or only one) while letting others starve.

2) There may be a problem when multiple troughs are involved. Another player speculated that a juvenile dino may "lock on" to a specific trough, and even if they are within range of additional troughs, or even removed from range of their original trough, they may refuse to eat from any other trough than the one they are "locked on to".

Both of these hypotheses seem to fit what I experienced. Went to bed with 5 juveniles that had an ample supply of food in the nearby trough. If the first hypothesis is correct, then my one surviving tek parasaur monopolized the trough while the other 4 starved. If the second hypothesis is correct then the 4 juveniles that starved had locked on to a trough that they were no longer in range of, while the 5th juvenile ate out of the trough that was in range.

Curious, still interested in anyone else's insights.