Good animal fodder

[Procne]

Has someone found some good animal fodder (for the food trough). Clovers give 5 points, but everything else I tried gave 1 point. That's not a lot considering a single animal may eat as much as 30 units every 2 days.

[Sevenless]

The traditional beetroots perhaps? I never remembered to check the value of beet root leaves, but you do get those + 3 roots per harvest without the 150k skill don't you?

There's also something called swill that can be made. I don't understand exactly how it works, but it's water + fodder somehow.

[Procne]

The traditional beetroots perhaps? I never remembered to check the value of beet root leaves, but you do get those + 3 roots per harvest without the 150k skill don't you?

There's also something called swill that can be made. I don't understand exactly how it works, but it's water + fodder somehow.

beets provide +1 too. It seems a lot of work with farming to feed animals on those.

I don't think we can "make" swill. It's what the food turns into when you throw it into trough. You can take it out with a bucket

edit: unless you can somehow dilute it with water

[Sevenless]

beets provide +1 too. It seems a lot of work with farming to feed animals on those.

I don't think we can "make" swill. It's what the food turns into when you throw it into trough. You can take it out with a bucket

Ah ok, someone mentioned that they "used a barrel with water and got swill" so I was wondering if you could dilute it or something.

I'm gonna go back to pumpkins as my suggested crop then. You get 8 units of fodder, and an additional 7 units of fodder + replant seed per harvest. Every 5 seeds counts as 1 fodder.

15 units per day isn't that huge a difference from 5 units a day last world. I always felt animals were kinda ridiculously cheap personally... *shrugs*.

[oONekoGami]

Why not just give everything you don't need? When I get a new higher ql batch, i usually just shove everything not used into our coop (Except carrots, one of our villagers has a weird fascination with carrots.)

[Sevenless]

Why not just give everything you don't need? When I get a new higher ql batch, i usually just shove everything not used into our coop (Except carrots, one of our villagers has a weird fascination with carrots.)

When you're farming, usually you need most of what you produce or you're producing too much. If you're talking a serious herd, you need to calculate the farming space required to feed the animals when planning villages.

It's a valid question.

[Procne]

Right now animals need a lot more fodder than I produce for myself. So I would have to make extra, big fields to produce enough fodder, and probably spend another 30 mins / day harvesting, replanting, refilling food troughs etc.
Guess I will keep monitoring if animals really eat that much (maybe it's the matter of my cows getting all pregnant) and look for some more efficient ways of filling troughs. In any case I don't want it to turn into 30 mins chore per day

[Sevenless]

well with pumpkins, you're looking at 1 harvest action per day per animal with a replant action.

That's not so bad if you prep your pumpkins properly and get a proper rotation going on them.

[MagicManICT]

I'm gonna go back to pumpkins as my suggested crop then. You get 8 units of fodder, and an additional 7 units of fodder + replant seed per harvest. Every 5 seeds counts as 1 fodder.

Such a pain in the ass getting quality up on them, especially with the way food and animals interact now.

[shubla]

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