Best Crop for feed.

[pyrale]

carrots give 2 units of feed for the same work

This is where you are wrong.

How do you replant if you use all 3 of your seeds ?

Beside, if I understood what Windforce said about cattle quality (food only softcaps cattle Q), with a 14.5 days generation cycle for cattle and a 7 days generation cycle for pumpkins, you should be able to get a consistent +4q in the time needed to have your new generation of cows. Unless you have 2-3 dozens of cows pregnant at the same time, it should be possible to feed a competitive herd only with pumpkins.

Even for those going industrial and having 25 pregnant cows at once, feeding them only with beets is a waste ; it would be better to tune your fodder quality by mixing beets (or any other seed you were going to dump) and pumpkins.

[kralmir]

carrots give 2 units of feed for the same work

This is where you are wrong.

in what way?
harvesting carrots gives you 1 for replanting and 2 for feed.

beet growth time: 18hours.
carrot growth time: 20 hours. even to the harvest-able as seed stage is roughly 15 hours.

explain yourself instead of sounding like a moron. which i'm sorry mate but you kinda do atm.


oh and pyrale. a 2-3dozen pregnant cow herd actually makes pumpkin a better choice due to the 4 times more feed per work compared to beet.

[pyrale]

oh and pyrale. a 2-3dozen pregnant cow herd actually makes pumpkin a better choice due to the 4 times more feed per work compared to beet.

Yeah but a 2-3 dozen of pregnant cows is actually the point at which you would start getting a benefit from using beetroots (or mixing pumkins and beetroots or other seeds).

[kralmir]

oh and pyrale. a 2-3dozen pregnant cow herd actually makes pumpkin a better choice due to the 4 times more feed per work compared to beet.

Yeah but a 2-3 dozen of pregnant cows is actually the point at which you would start getting a benefit from using beetroots (or mixing pumkins and beetroots or other seeds).

how? the way i see it at 24cow starting to use beetroot is the same as feeding 96 cows with the same amount of work using pumpkin. so i am missing something, can you explain?

[Zampfeo]

Beside, if I understood what Windforce said about cattle quality (food only softcaps cattle Q), with a 14.5 days generation cycle for cattle and a 7 days generation cycle for pumpkins, you should be able to get a consistent +4q in the time needed to have your new generation of cows. Unless you have 2-3 dozens of cows pregnant at the same time, it should be possible to feed a competitive herd only with pumpkins. .

Once you hit your soil cap, the time it takes your crop generation to gain Q levels increases substantially. Something to consider.

[pyrale]

how? the way i see it at 24cow starting to use beetroot is the same as feeding 96 cows with the same amount of work using pumpkin. so i am missing something, can you explain?

You need lots of pregnant cows to make sure that you will actually get +5 calves (and even then, I'm not sure that you will be able to get enough +5 calves enough to maintain this for long). You can easily get +4Q in the meantime on the pumpkins.

So yeah, you will not need beetroots unless you're going for crazy numbers.

Once you hit your soil cap, the time it takes your crop generation to gain Q levels increases substantially. Something to consider.

Pumpkins are no exception to this rule, but the amount of seeds they give should make you able to consistently get +2q per generation, at the price of slightly oversizing pumpkin crops.

[kralmir]

Beside, if I understood what Windforce said about cattle quality (food only softcaps cattle Q), with a 14.5 days generation cycle for cattle and a 7 days generation cycle for pumpkins, you should be able to get a consistent +4q in the time needed to have your new generation of cows. Unless you have 2-3 dozens of cows pregnant at the same time, it should be possible to feed a competitive herd only with pumpkins. .

Once you hit your soil cap, the time it takes your crop generation to gain Q levels increases substantially. Something to consider.

meaning on average the q rises by 1q point per plant generation(to have enough to replant the same field size that is). so +2 for pumpkins per cow generation. don't know how much cows rise per generation on average.

[pyrale]

meaning on average the q rises by 1q point per plant generation(to have enough to replant the same field size that is). so +2 for pumpkins per cow generation. don't know how much cows rise per generation on average.

Pumpkins are different. With them you can get +2 per generation. and +4 per cow gen.

[Windforce]

All the seeds from the same pumpkin is the same Q as the pumpkin so a Q30 Pumpkin gives 8 q30 flesh 8 q30 seeds. So need some luck in that.

[pyrale]

All the seeds from the same pumpkin is the same Q as the pumpkin so a Q30 Pumpkin gives 8 q30 flesh 8 q30 seeds. So need some luck in that.

That would mean pumpkins never grow in quality (unless you mean that the pumpkin has a different quality than the seed that was used to plant it ?).