Chickens eat way too much

[Groover]

Wanted to build another coop cause my chickens dont give enough meat or eggs but i wanted to make sure i have enough oats...And then i did the math...

So i have 1 coop of 90 chickens total with 2 people working in it.
To feed those 90 chickens you need about 1400 oats per year.
Field that big needs 4 people working on it.
1 chicken will get 1 meat which is too little it needs to be at least 2 maybe even 3 or 4
Not sure about how many eggs they drop,but also not a lot cause im never able to make vegetable pies without problems...

So you need 6 people and a loooot of space to get what?
Maybe around 100-200 pieces of meat and 300 eggs per year?

6 people working on a vegetable field will get you around 2500 pieces per year...

Need tweaking cause its just not worth it,either make chickens drop more meat and eggs or make them eat a lot less,or a mix of both.

[Die Kazte]

i had 140 chickens they eat 4k oats per year and my storage was filled with at least 1k eggs during the year...have u take a look inside the coop if they havent the time to take the meat or eggs out? Somethimes its just the long way to the burn..and the villagers eat the eggs too so take alook where the eggs go and who consume these..

[Groover]

Barn is really close,thats not a problem...
But you just confirmed what im trying to say...
Even tho u probably make 2 much oats...
Im just saying its not worth it considering how much you can get from other fields for a lot less space and manpower

[Die Kazte]

try to make pork coops they give 10 meat per pork or cows also 10 per cow way mutch better for only meat i use the chickens only to get eggs 4 my backerys.

[ancienthighway]

I had a small coop, 24 chickens with one farmer. I've had up to 5 dozen eggs in the barn. I also had a good supply of fish and meat from hunting, so maybe that had something to do with the eggs. One small farm, largest possible with just two farmers, alternated growing seasons between oats, flax, and grass, depending on my needs.

The village was still relatively small, around 40-45 people.

[cstoneburner]

Chickens do produce, it's just that people like protein and if there aren't other sources available in the same barns as the eggs and meat from the chickens they'll disappear before you notice them. Also if the barn is generally short of food they'll take what they can get. Since the devs are still working on a distribution system this can start to get noticbly out of whack once you have a larger population and several barns. Checking on a previous village (I'm back to playing the early years on one) with a population of 177 I have 3472 fish, 3213 meat,1422 eggs, 5528 fruit and 33216 veg. The majority of eggs and fish end up in the same barn along with some potatoes and a few apples so the eggs just build up. I perioudically have stopped the fishers that feed into there just to work down egg supplies and free up the barn for more potatoes and fruit. Despite this I have folks who get very lttle protein or almost no fruit (the latter seems to affect rates of death in childbirth, so I've actually stopped playing my high population villages until they get a distribution fix and preferably a fix on fatally long travel times. But yes, chickens are actually very effective, the results just go fast.

[SGTSylver]

Echo what cstone said. I have 90 ppl in my village and a coop of 50ish chickens. Because I have other productive sources of protein, and that my protein is stored in roughly 6 different barns dispersed around my village, I have no issue maintaining eggs for regular consumption. I do however have a problem keeping my bakeries supplied, so it imight be time for me to increase coop size. Also as noted above, if you build your coop to the max area size allotted for a certain number of workers they may not be able to collect the products in time. I had a larger coop of like 90 chickens and that was my issue. When I scaled my coop down to the max size for 1 person, then expanded one or two rows further to just barely allow for 2 workers I can operate the coop with 1 person and periodically throw in that 2nd worker to assist in moving eggs to the barn. I do agree that chickens seem to produce very little meat but I don't look at them as a meat source anyway, and wouldn't in real life either. Egg layers don't make good fryers and you hold on to a good egg layer longer than a fryer bird anyway, so meat production would be minor in comparison.