Grass grow/spread time?

[MR. CROW]

How much time did grass started to grow/spread ?
And how many grass starter needed to make into hay and feed 1 chicken?

[Hattyちゃん]

One grass starter will give you like one hay.
You should farm the grass on your farm for hay, it's what I did, or buy it from the ranch.

[emperorjoe]

well if you want to grow your own hay for animals plant it weeks b4 you get the animals so you will have enough

[rincewind]

I don't know. Seems to be REALLY slow. I got a grass started in a place, and in a week or so, only spawned a tiny bit besides it.
Put six others besides my coop, but my three chickens in a few days decimated it. I already put four more, but seems that they eat too fast and the grass grow too slow.

And buying hay to feed them is not good, because I would lose money too.

Chickens are problematic.

[Hattyちゃん]

^ I literally just let it spread on my farmland and harvest it there. It works for me, I've got two chickens and they're fine. :P

[The Hopping Chaos]

As much as I hate to come off as attacking Concerned Ape or his game, it really does seem like there is a balance issue with animal feed.

[Hattyちゃん]

It really does grow too slow, I've got four plots of it in my chicken field and they eat it before it even expands.

[klong34]

IMO the grass growth is an issue, once you have the deluxe barn with multiple animals grass simply dissapears. It becomes a burden and you will make no profit because you are forced to buy hay from the store for 50gp, or spend 100gp on a piece of grass. Grass either needs to be magically regrown every season or speed needs to be adjusted

[The Hopping Chaos]

If it were me.
I'd lower the cost of store hay, to make it more viable but less cost effective than growing your own.
Then, make it so the sickle/grazing animals don't destroy gass. In other words have a different tool destroy it and have the sickle simply harvest it. I see no reason why grass can't behave like it does in Harvest Moon with all the rest of the heavy inspiration it takes from it.

[MR. CROW]

I would be nice if the grass will regrow even after you cut it just like in the Harvest Moon BTN.
Then all you need is empty space and time..

[ASwarmOfKittenz]

My idea:

Make Grass Starter spread out by two grass every single day. One single hay can feed an animal two times before it disappears. One single grass tile can feed an animal two times before it disappears.

[gyzbug]

Well like in every other game like it I played you never kill the grass when harvesting you just cut it back to the initial growth stage and allow it to grow again. While spreading may be slow you shouldn't kill it like we do currently.

[astralprogenitor]

It really doesn't make sense that grass grows so slowly nor that it never regrows. Now, I'm not saying full realism here - but cutting grass doesn't usually make a wasteland.

We have to cut our grass down every week where I live - I WISH it disappeared so easily, haha.

I really agree that it should spread faster or that it should regrow. It feels like animals are more of a novelty than anything when you make so little on them (assuming you buy hay then make artisan products) compared to say just planting crops.