Animal feeding

[Hypnoticborrat]

Is there a way to designate whether animals are being fed straw or grain? Because I have tons of grain and not so much straw, which is also needed for building upkeep, so I keep planting more and more barley, resulting in more and more grain, so I would just love to say "feed grain to the animals, not straw". So if this isn't a possibility yet, please make it @devs.

[DeadMechGaming]

There isn't. All they get is straw. Try planting Barley. It gives you a 50% chance of more straw at harvest.

[Hypnoticborrat]

Also, why do my people feed old animals in the winter when first thing in spring they get slaughtered, because they are too old? I feel like the AI logic is flawed here and needs a rework.

[Hypnoticborrat]

Originally posted by TheFrustratedElmo:

There isn't. All they get is straw. Try planting Barley. It gives you a 50% chance of more straw at harvest.

Obviously you haven't read my post properly, planting barley is all I do.

[TankFodder]

There isn't, but you can manage. Just plant some more barley, and set some limits for your herd, I have 15 goats and 15 sheep for about 50 people, and I'm drowning in wool and losing milk to spoiling constantly. More is not merrier with animals.

[martiño]

We will probably add the option in the future to give grain to the animals first.

[DeadMechGaming]

Originally posted by Hypnoticborrat:

Originally posted by TheFrustratedElmo:

There isn't. All they get is straw. Try planting Barley. It gives you a 50% chance of more straw at harvest.

Obviously you haven't read my post properly, planting barley is all I do.

My bad, it's 4am here and I'm not awake yet.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by martiño:

We will probably add the option in the future to give grain to the animals first.

I would recomend a forage Mix recipe where a small tub can be used to make animal feed at a cost of like 2 grains and 1 straw or something/ that way we can control the animal food intake vs the human food

[OWL]

Yeah I second this, way to much grain and not enough straw, fix please! :)

[Hypnoticborrat]

Do cattle eat more straw than goats? Because I exchanged my 15 goats to 15 cattle :D

[Psykikk]

is there a way to set an autolimit on herd sizes ? my goats and sheep fornicate like bunnies and eat my straw like locusts

[Hypnoticborrat]

yes in the limit section under animals, you can have infinite, or percentage (of your own population), or absolute numbers. In my opinion, absolute numbers makes the most sense, since you are most limited by your stable size.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Psykikk:

is there a way to set an autolimit on herd sizes ? my goats and sheep fornicate like bunnies and eat my straw like locusts

Hit F4, you can set limits for everything there.

[Tohtori Leka]

Originally posted by martiño:

We will probably add the option in the future to give grain to the animals first.

Please, do this. Running out of straw and drowning in grain isn't much fun. Other way to fix it would be to change the ratio of how much straw and grain the plants produce. More straw and less grain.

[Hypnoticborrat]

Yeah or just have a plant that yields only straw...

[HEAVY FIRST RATE]

For the time being, I would think that a "hay type forage plant" would be the easiest to implement since you already have plants working in the game. Something along the lines of alfalfa, fescue, or some type of tall growing prairie grass that is harvested with the currently used hand harvest tools strictly for animal fodder and bedding should be fairly easy to incorporate. After all, as long as man has had domestic animals, there has always been some form of "tall grass" that he harvested, cured, and laid up for the winter to get his forage eating animals through the winter.