Stable Animals Not In Stables

[YouMustBeMythtaken]

I'm seeing most of my stable animals wandering around aimlessly, not only outside of my stables but outside of my walled settlement entirely. I lost a dozen goats to a raider attack a few minutes ago because they were outside the walls instead of inside their stables (which are at the far end of my village from where raiders attack)!

[Porkwhitemeat]

Ive noticed they only go in the stables during the winter. The rest of the time they wonder off and graze but you need enough food to feed them in the stables during winter.

[Draken]

The animals only enter the stables in winter.
For the rest of the year, they walk around to graze and drink. Which has the benefit of you not needing to feed them.

Also, my animals will run into my settlement if I sound the alarm.

[Sgt.Stupid]

Originally posted by Draken:

The animals only enter the stables in winter.
For the rest of the year, they walk around to graze and drink. Which has the benefit of you not needing to feed them.

Also, my animals will run into my settlement if I sound the alarm.

+1 to this.

[zyzz]

Yep, AKA my efforts at building a nice pasture for the animals was in vain. AFAIK they've never been attacked by wildcats/cave bears/whatever so your "pasture area" just needs to be big enough to accommodate the maximum number of stables you need for winter.