Zookeepers won't fill up food bowls

[SaltedFish]

So my poor peafowl are basically starving to death and I have no idea what to do. If I call a zookeeper, they walk in and look around... Then they leave, uncaring of the fate of the peafowl, these zookeepers are idiots.
So I guess my animals are gonna die.
Anyone experienced this and know how to fix it?

[Victoria]

I have the same problem

[Tajari]

I had to click the waterbowl a couple times -- and add about three more -- to solve this problem. It eventually worked.

My peafowls wouldn't drink, as well. It's like they WANTED to die.

[SaltedFish]

My food bowls are completely empty though, the zookeepers are psychopaths, they want those poor birds to die.

[Darcherin]

Same here :/

[Fiona]

Same problem here T_T

[wolfie72189]

This was also a problem in Alpha. The Zoo keepers come in to check out what needs to be done, then leaves to go to a keeper hut to get supplies. Make sure huts are close to your animals and have power from power stations.

[Satira]

Same issue. My tortoises are starving to death, called a zookeeper who came over (x50) and just runs away. Ehm, they are starving? Hired a new one, he came and filled the food up to 2, one tortoise ate it all, now no one will give more food. And the food can be prepared like just outside the enclosure. Ehm, hello??

[Onyx]

This seems to be a common issue. I tried to report via the issue tracker (please do so if you can) but had issues linking my steam account to it. I submitted a ticket to them about the issues connecting steam to their account and detailing about 4 bugs i had found as well.

[DevilTwins]

Originally posted by wolfie72189:

This was also a problem in Alpha. The Zoo keepers come in to check out what needs to be done, then leaves to go to a keeper hut to get supplies. Make sure huts are close to your animals and have power from power stations.

Doesn't work. I'm having this exact same issue as everyone else here. And it's not just related to the peafowls. My other animals are suffering because the zoo keepers won't do their jobs. Even have one of those zoo keeper huts right outside my warthog and ostrich exhibit, and they literally don't use them. According to the hut, No meals were made in them. They'd rather go half way across the map to another hut, rather then the one closest to the exhibit.

[Writ]

Same goes for waterbowls. Also, I have starving/dehydrated animals on the brink of death not going to the just filled water/food. Calling the vet does nothing, except an animation of a keeper coming into the enclosure, making a phone call and exiting. Also I'm pretty sure my ostrich is dead, the way they aree splayed out on the ground and idk what to do about it.

[Fiona]

In Zoo Tycoon 2 the animals (those who eat plants) found food in the nature and eat plants etc., but I think this isnt working here. My animals starving too. Water is not an issue, the use a little pond to drink.

[SaltedFish]

My peafowl was finally fed but now my lemurs keep being thrown into boxes and the rest of my animals are being neglected too.
I've been putting down the unlimited water sources where I can (fountains or ponds) but everything else is going wrong. *facepalm*

[Cynder]

i have the same issue...

[louvainne]

I'm having many of these same issues. I'd wait to see if a zookeeper would return with food after trying to summon them, but they never did. It took a lot of calling and several foodbowl/waterbowl placements to finally get them to fill the stuff...and then when they did the animals seemed incapable of finding it half the time and would just sit around languishing. It's a miracle I was even able to gold star the first scenario.

[BustInsider]

Same.