Chicken meat and eggs

[Banisha]

I have a population of almost 500 people and 5 chicken coops, but I have problems to get the meat or enough eggs.
It doesn"t attract me to fill the land with coops, but can"t import the stuff.
How do you tackle this?

[juliejayne]

What are you needing to import. If you have 5 full chicken coops, with 30 chickens in each, you should have plenty of chicken meat and eggs for your people.

[Banisha]

I should have, but I haven"t. Why do you think I came up with the question?

[labasrytaskurva]

It is better to post screens showing your coop settings, location, etc. It can be a glitch, of course, but very often nuances matter.

[kiska87]

Is your hatchlings limit set to 0?

[juliejayne]

Originally posted by Banisha:

I should have, but I haven"t. Why do you think I came up with the question?

So how many stall do you have selling chicken meat and eggs?
Have you checked the houses? Do they all have chicken meat and eggs in their store cupboards?
Have you checked the resources tab? Are there thousands of eggs etc, perishing?

[CaBux]

How many granaries store chicken meat and eggs? I think stallholders collect goods from granaries first

[Banisha]

The description of the chicken coop states that probably half of it consists of roosters. But how does that relate to the number of hens that lay eggs and the number of eggs that are allowed to produce new life?
For me, this is one of the most difficult animals to keep, because I cannot determine whether the roosters should be slaughtered.
Even in earlier times they knew what to do with that.

[juliejayne]

Originally posted by Banisha:

The description of the chicken coop states that probably half of it consists of roosters. But how does that relate to the number of hens that lay eggs and the number of eggs that are allowed to produce new life?
For me, this is one of the most difficult animals to keep, because I cannot determine whether the roosters should be slaughtered.
Even in earlier times they knew what to do with that.

But in the game itself... not the description, they are simply, Chickens or Hatchlings. And there is NO option to slaughter roosters (or chickens for that matter). The excess poultry over whatever you set, I usually choose 30 adults and 2 hatchlings, will be automatically killed, no need for a slaughter house. The chicken keeper, just wrings their necks.

You are just making life too difficult for yourself.

[Bjørn]

I have skipped chicken coops so far in my current game. Not done that before.

I have mainly used them of old habit, to make things a bit livelier, and to export chicken eggs.

It was pointed out somewhere before, that citizens need 10 times more eggs to get the same nutrition value as other food, and sold for only a 10th of the price. Something like that (although I might remember wrong, and it might have been changed). So it was recommended to export them only.

I barely notice the chicken meat. I have someone selling chicken meat close to each chicken coop, and it never stacks up.

I have both sliders to 30 (max) when I use chicken coops. Not sure what is optimal for best production, tbh. Have always just done that.

But this time I'm skipping the chickens and pigs. No buckwheat. Less hazzle...

[Claybot]

I use chickens mainly to produce eggs to sell, meat is a by product that gets sold from time to time.

Sliders are set 30 chickens 5 hatch lings.

Stopped using pigs a long time ago.

[allxander]

Pigs with one max sized apple orchard near are ok. They manage to eat all of the apples during the year

[Banisha]

A lot to think of. Thank you all!

[tivaber]

Originally posted by allxander:

Pigs with one max sized apple orchard near are ok. They manage to eat all of the apples during the year

Interesting! I read it's not worth to have pigs in this game because they consume so much food, making them counter productive. Do you feed them just with apples?

[tivaber]

Originally posted by Banisha:

A lot to think of. Thank you all!

Maybe it's better indeed to look for information and ask for help before downvoting such a nice game at Steam that is still in alpha? ;-)

[Twelvefield]

Originally posted by Banisha:

Even in earlier times they knew what to do with that.

Excess roosters tend to control their own population through survival of the fittest. I don't know what the game does, though. Maybe they are pets.