Natural grass and Q of animals

[Uriel_Ventris]

I am finding it slow and difficult increase the Q of animals, despite having food Q 53 in the trough.

Seeing the field full of bald spots, I started thinking that maybe eating wild grass the animals lose the effect of the quality food in the trough.

Is that so? or is it just that the process is slow?

[MagicManICT]

quality of food in the trough only matters if it is lower than that of the animal.if you have bald spots where the terrain was eaten, make sure your animals are always in range of a trough. Otherwise, quality can only be raised in animals through selective breeding.

[Karede]

Eating grass will indeed hurt their food eaten quality, but it shouldn't be all that significant. It's mostly luck

[Thedrah]

eating grass will lower the health of the animals though. this hurts the products such as hide, meat, and milk. it also happens as a bug when you pasture on grasslands with a trough nearby even full of food

a few of my cows are giving 9.4/9.7q milk because of this

[Koyu]

?
the misleading info lol.

grass always behave as Q10 fodder and is eaten when animal cant find food in through.

You can pasture Q10 animals on grasslands and they wont lose quality or wellfedness. Welldefness drops when animal cant find food. Do note that young animals "eat" only milk from any animal of same type. That wellfedness drop might be caused by excessive milking.

I always use through filled with food and keep animals on grasslands (only for looks tbh) and never seen eaten tiles on grass, nor any drops on wellfedness. (I do sometimes get drop in wellfedness when i milk too much, but that drops occur only for baby animals).

[Thedrah]

animals are on grasslands and i have ran out of food about 3 times due to taming too many before farm was established and the animals welfedness went down despite being ontop of grass (greensward), i do see many dirt tiles now though but never ran out

was the same in w8. it was also recommended to pave the ground to stop this to me a few times

other thread claiming the same thing but with full food troughs
http://www.havenandhearth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=46166

[DDDsDD999]

Females can't be sustained off of grass while males for the most part can. It's not because they're pregnant, males just eat grass more readily.

[Uriel_Ventris]

The point is that the trough has never been empty and animals do not stop eating grasses, even through the palisade



Maybe they need physical access to the trough?

I'm afraid to pave the area and increase food intake so much that it can not satisfy it

Thanks to all comments

[Carebear]

I am sure they dont require physical access, I rarely put my troughs in the pens. I would build another on the other side and do double coverage - see if that helps.

[Uriel_Ventris]

I am sure they dont require physical access, I rarely put my troughs in the pens. I would build another on the other side and do double coverage - see if that helps.

I'll try. It is not normal that leave food Q40-50 and get deformed calves of Q 8 and 5 meat quantity