Breeding with stacks of food

[mfj]

I've been throwing carrots at boars one at a time instead of just throwing multiple as a stack. Is this necessary?

[Yakumo_2020]

You can throw down complete stacks. the animals only eat one item at a time from the stack.

[mfj]

That's good to hear, thank you:)

[qwerm]

not at all, each time a mob goes to eat, they'll only eat one item in the stack; Do take care however, that unless the dropped items are still within range of a crafting station they are liable to despawn after some time( possibly an hour) while you are away. also, if you really want to keep them breeding efficiently, you will need to remain nearby and ensure you are culling them as their population goes up, and also because they don't accumulate "love points" while you are too far away.

Each tamable animal has a limit on how many others can be nearby before they stop mating, I would reccomend looking up an animal breeding build to help you overcome this population limit by having the breeding animals at an elevated position so that they babies fall to the ground far enough away they aren't counted in the breeders population limit.

It can take a lot of time to set up, but once you have it up and running, you'll be swimming in meat!

I have a breeder pen for both boars and lox currently, and have plans to double up on the boar setup to add chickens further up in the structure I have built.

[mfj]

I sure am starting to swim in meat. I've only got the boar farm set up atm but it's working flawlessly, I think it's Broadbents design. I think he said the same farm works with wolves as well so I'll be sure to set it up with them as well, thank you for the reply:)

[Philthy]

the only farm you realy need is a chicken farm

[Complaintdesk]

I find that when I throw down stacks equivalent to how many boar are standing in a singular (term for a group of boars). It keeps them happily close to one another, which is conducive to breeding.