Pigs price

[Tallesqwer]

So I started to work with pigs, since I don't have machinery to provide all of the needs I just started buying the food, I buy 50 pigs, each of them are $3000 and I decided to start to sell them when 9 new pigs show up, driving them to the animal dealer and the price of pigs are only $1200

This don't sounds too profitable, I understand that the best way is to have the grain and the rest in stock to feed them not buying the ration food like im doing but even with the possibility of have everything this don't sounds too profitable to me

[wolfedg]

Unless im missing something I'm in agreement here. I started a scratch game on Sosnovka and sold everything. Did a few missions and bought a JCB Skidsteer with forks and bucket, a water trailer, an animal trailer, a hay trailer, a pickup truck, 14ish pallets of pig food, and fianlly bought 36 pigs. They seem to eat their sell value of food in half the time it takes to produce a trailer load of pigs for sale at a price of only 10,000ish. But perhaps im missing something.
P.S. Driving the animal trailer attacjed to the older pickup is a riot :).

[Masai]

sheeps are exellent.

[Syndicake ☠]

The more pigs you have the faster they reproduce. So it should get more profitable. A lot of the equipment used for keeping pigs can be used for sheep and cows so maybe try diversifying?

[wolfedg]

Originally posted by Syndicake:

The more pigs you have the faster they reproduce. So it should get more profitable.

Except that also means they eat more...

[Syndicake ☠]

Originally posted by wolfedg:

Originally posted by Syndicake:

The more pigs you have the faster they reproduce. So it should get more profitable.

Except that also means they eat more...

Does it? I think they eat at the same rate. Even so it doesn't mean it scales linearly. The maximum food they can eat probably caps out before the reproduction rate. It probably comes down to scale of economy, just get more pigs. You can always sell them if it doesn't work out and invest in sheep or cattle.

[wolfedg]

We'll have to wait till the numbers come in from other players, but you may be correct. Also my character's loan is capped out so unless I go and do more missions, which I was trying to avoid, there will be no more pigs.

[Masai]

buy 500 pigs, fill up food for 6 days , keep it clean and with straw inside.. after 6 days drive and sell all newborns and calculate,also calculate ♥♥♥♥ you get so dont need to buy fert for fields .. i see profit..
even in real life few pigs are just a hobby and homemade food ,no money to earn..

[Estellika]

I had a 130 pigs, and they were eating faster than I could feed them. Even with homemade food it wasn't profitable

[Wizard_Nor]

I am on PS4.
I have 200 pigs and I will do the math again at 400 pigs.
I unloaded 53000litres/kg or whatever measurement of korn and the selling prise if this is aprox 1000usd per 1000litres = 53.000usd.

If you add the prize for all the other ingredients needed to make the best productivity it is not good buisness *YET*
This is the food I have for them now, 200pigs:

Straw:24000L 76usd. Is 1824Usd
Corn:53000L 1000usd is 53000Usd
Wheat:26431 900usd is 23787Usd
Canola:21103 1600usd is 33765Usd
Potatoes:5364 447usd is 2398usd

I have not used the highest prizes i have got. These are the prises in my list right now. I rounded up/down to the closest numbers.

This totals in 114.774USD in 6 days
Not included water cost or fuel for tractor.

114.774usd/1200usd for a pig if you transport it:
95,6pigs is needed to brake even when I have 200 pigs ( 6 days).

Reproduction rate in my list is: 0,48H

1 hour is 60 minutes x 24 hours a day is 1440minutes a day
1440/48minutes repo time is 30pigs each day.

30pigs x 6 days = 180pigs in 6days

Earlier it shows I need 95,6 to brake even. So I am making less than 100.000 in 6 days, hardly worth the time in the game and the machinery needed.
However the reproduction rate drops as I get more animals so lets see at 400???

Anyone who has the numbers so I don't need to wait?

[Murph]

Here are my calculations:

I have 300 pigs to begin, which produce 60 pigs a day. I sell them at the end of each day, so my stock varies from 300 to 360.

When I was at 350 pigs, I filled my feed and straw to get the 6 day needs based on 350. The actual need will be less than this, but I erred on the costly side.

Prices I have listed for the grain and straws are in Euros, and are prices on the high side of average, but certainly not the best price you can find.

Income: 60K, or 72K if transported yourself.

Costs:
Straw 42k for 6 days, 7k per day, 420 Euros per day at 60 sell price
Corn 94.2k for 6 days, 15.7k per day, 11k Euros at ~700 sell price
Wheat 47.1K for 6 days, 7850 per day, 5.1k Euros at 650 sell price
Canola 37.6k for 6 days, 6267 oer day, 6.2k Euros at 1000 sell price
Beets 9.4k for 6 days, 1.55k per day, 392 Euros at 250 sell price

Daily upkeep of animals ~10k

Total Cost about 33k

So without even considering the fertilizer and manure output, I am showing pig farming nearly doubles the income of the materials you put into it.

I have the small field above the pig farm dedicated to making corn for the pigs. I have a harvester, a tractor for cultivating/fertilizing, and a tractor for sowing and tending to the pigs and greenhouses. Total dedicated vehicle costs are just a couple of thousand. And that field produces more than the pigs need, so the vehichle costs are covered by corn taken to market.

The manure produced (15700 per day) is more than enough to supply 3 greenhouses next to the pig farm, which generate 8600 in income, nearly covering all of the animal upkeep costs.

The slurry (20k per day) covers one fertilization pass on the field per day, saving that money.

I also put a water tower near the pig farm for the pigs and greenhouses. Water is running me about $500 per day, which is negligible and worth the time saved.

[ancienthighway]

Running in hard mode on Goldcrest Valley.

I found running both sheep and pigs to be very profitable. Add a mower and pallet fork to what you have for the pigs and you have what you need for sheep. Don't sell either until you have a large stock, and then use the semitrailer for fewer and faster trips to market. 25.2 k per load of pigs, and around 38 k per load of sheep. Or keep the sheep for faster wool pallets and 4.2k to 5+k per kiloleter. The mower and loading wagon give you the option for silage productionas well.

Keep the numbers of each below what you can grow for feed. The pigfeed from the shop will kill any profits fast. Water is available for free at the end of field 9,

As far as slurry, I'm producing enough for two passes on all three of the starting fields. With slow growth on the crops, the slurry rebuilds to handle the next series of applications. And manure is available to any shortfalls you may have.