Feeding of MULTIPLE species in ONE habitat

[Lekkerding]

Hi there,
I have issues by managing multiple species(6) in one habitat. I have already put 3 feeders on it but they just cannt feed all animals
I get the process, the feeder goes in, counts, brings the right amount of food back...food is near the door also..
I think they just take food for 1 species at a time right?
So do you need a number of 'x' feeders for 'x' species in the habitat?

[Lekkerding]

Some ideas?

[MessiahofMelons]

I try to use feeders that are only used by one of the species but not the other.

It feeld weird that you cant assign feeders to specific animals

[Death Korps Commissar]

Works fine for me ... but maybe because my animals all eat the same crap.
Had African Buffalos, Ostriches, Wildebeests and Warthog in one habitat and they all at from the same 2 troughs. Only Giraffes at from their own feeder.

[bigdadyrabbit]

Have you tried using two keepers for the habitat? I have two keepers assigned to my habitats that have heavy feeding. That seems to work ok. I have observed at times that one keeper will be feeding and the other will be cleaning. What I wish we could do is have specific workshifts for them. My vendors all seem to want to go on break at the same time making my guest unhappy. That way we could manage staff easier.

[Lekkerding]

Originally posted by Libertine:

Works fine for me ... but maybe because my animals all eat the same crap.
Had African Buffalos, Ostriches, Wildebeests and Warthog in one habitat and they all at from the same 2 troughs. Only Giraffes at from their own feeder.

I did the same composition.. I noticed also the animals who die are young and die away from the food sources. maybe they just dont get it yet or maybe adults are prioritary. Too bad all this isnt explained better. Sadly you have to discover it by yourself and put so much wasted time in it

[Lekkerding]

Problem (almost) fixed :

I had a path over a part of the habitat that stressed animals.
Also the habitat space was to big so i made it smaller. i also put a lot of shelts everywhere to unstress.
Idk if stress is related with feeding, could be

[Moosegun]

I have a 6 species exhibit with 30+ animals, it took a bit of time to get feeding working correctly, my tips;

- use workgroups
- set some keepers to just do food
- have a good mix of feeders and enrichment
- make sure your feeders are not overlooked by the guests (privacy can cause animals to flee area before they eat)
- try to keep the keeper hut near to the enclosure, if it is too far the keeper will get too tired whilst doing feeding job and go for a break
- big mistake i see - Make sure you have a big enough keeper hut, otherwise you will not be able to have enough keeper making food
- make sure you monitor your animal numbers and cull regularly

So yes stress does massive effect feeding, if your animals are stressed they will run not eat.

A lot of the 'feeding' bugs are actually user error, I have a massive 4,500 guest zoo and get few problems with feeding. A little trick though, if an animal is really in trouble then move them to quarrantine asap.

[karma99]

Originally posted by Lekkerding:

Problem (almost) fixed :

I had a path over a part of the habitat that stressed animals.
Also the habitat space was to big so i made it smaller. i also put a lot of shelts everywhere to unstress.
Idk if stress is related with feeding, could be

The Zoopedia entry will tell you how the animal types feel about humans. If they are listed as shy then they will often need to go and hide to de-stress and I suspect that even with 1 way glass that the noise of crowds effect them.
Gemboks are really bad for it, I got so fed up with them in the end I sold them all and just left in the far more chilled out Warthogs :-)

[Lekkerding]

Originally posted by Moosegun:

I have a 6 species exhibit with 30+ animals, it took a bit of time to get feeding working correctly, my tips;

- use workgroups
- set some keepers to just do food
- have a good mix of feeders and enrichment
- make sure your feeders are not overlooked by the guests (privacy can cause animals to flee area before they eat)
- try to keep the keeper hut near to the enclosure, if it is too far the keeper will get too tired whilst doing feeding job and go for a break
- big mistake i see - Make sure you have a big enough keeper hut, otherwise you will not be able to have enough keeper making food
- make sure you monitor your animal numbers and cull regularly

So yes stress does massive effect feeding, if your animals are stressed they will run not eat.

A lot of the 'feeding' bugs are actually user error, I have a massive 4,500 guest zoo and get few problems with feeding. A little trick though, if an animal is really in trouble then move them to quarrantine asap.

Yeah completly agree, I already did most of your ideas but yeah took me some time:D
and thx karma i didnt looked for that on zoopedia:p

[Moosegun]

The keepers hut thing is the funniest, i had someone ranting on here about their keepers not feeding anything and how broken the game was (apparently this was proven because a streamer had the same problem). I then found out they were trying to feed 3 habitates with one small keeper hut. So the reason WHY their keepers were standing around was they had nowhere to make the food.

[mossaddiction]

Moosegun is right you need a hut for each keeper or you can get the big hut if its unlocked