Animals Not Eating

[Melonz]

My animals (specifically pigs) don't seem to be eating and food. Whenever I go in to pet my animals in the morning I get the black squiggle in their chat box. When I click on them once more it says they are grumpy or they are thin. I have the deluxe barn and the feeding trough is always full when I see them. This also seems to only happen on some days.

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[Clovis Sangrail]

Are those screen grabs in the winter? If not, Plant some grass outside for them. If it is not winter or raining, they want to eat outside. Save the hay for winter or when it is raining.

[Melonz]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Are those screen grabs in the winter? If not, Plant some grass outside for them. If it is not winter or raining, they want to eat outside. Save the hay for winter or when it is raining.

It's not in winter. Can you only feed them hay during rainy days or winter? Just wondering because with so many animals (36) it might be hard to provide enough grass for them all.

[GlassDeviant]

That is a part of farm management, you need to make sure your pasture (or your farm if you don't fence in a pasture area) is growing enough wild grass to support your animals during sunny spring/summer/fall days. 36 animals is a lot, so you are going to need a huge amount of land set aside for wild grass and will probably be risking some animals not making it 'home' for the night. This is not good as they supposedly can eb eaten by wolves if they are out overnight.

[Lorax]

Originally posted by Melonz:

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Are those screen grabs in the winter? If not, Plant some grass outside for them. If it is not winter or raining, they want to eat outside. Save the hay for winter or when it is raining.

It's not in winter. Can you only feed them hay during rainy days or winter? Just wondering because with so many animals (36) it might be hard to provide enough grass for them all.

No if they have no access to fresh grass they should be okay with eating hay but grass makes them happier. There's likely another factor as to why your pigs won't eat

[Geothermal1159]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

That is a part of farm management, you need to make sure your pasture (or your farm if you don't fence in a pasture area) is growing enough wild grass to support your animals during sunny spring/summer/fall days. 36 animals is a lot, so you are going to need a huge amount of land set aside for wild grass and will probably be risking some animals not making it 'home' for the night. This is not good as they supposedly can eb eaten by wolves if they are out overnight.

As long as you never close the doors on the barn/coops you will never risk losing any animmals to wolves.

[GlassDeviant]

It's better to close the doors.

I close them at night before I sleep, so that I don't have to rummage the whole pasture for animal products (except truffles which are as fat as the pigs that find them), just the barns/coops, after I let the beasties out for the day.

[funewchie]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

It's better to close the doors.

I close them at night before I sleep, so that I don't have to rummage the whole pasture for animal products (except truffles which are as fat as the pigs that find them), just the barns/coops, after I let the beasties out for the day.

Do you put a fence around your pasture, to keep them from going very far?
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I'll be honest, I've never closed the doors (except in winter), and haven't lost an animal yet.
I fenced in a decent area in front of the barn to grow a pasture (using stone fencing, with a few gates), and then just quickly talk and tend to the livestock each morning.

Although, I do keep the coop and barn separate, so it might make it a little easier to keep track of the animals.

[Geothermal1159]

Originally posted by Zombielord Ativan:

It's better to close the doors.

I close them at night before I sleep, so that I don't have to rummage the whole pasture for animal products (except truffles which are as fat as the pigs that find them), just the barns/coops, after I let the beasties out for the day.

I know all of the animals from the coop leave their products behind in the coop even if you never close the doors (don't know about barn animals but guessing cows won't leave a bucket of milk behind for ya in the barn) however it does make it more difficult to talk to the animals in the morning.

[GlassDeviant]

Yes, absolutely. They get in the way of harvesting crops if you don't fence in a pasture area.