Best food for animals?

[Tedka]

I've been wondering what the most efficient food for animals is, what do you feed yours?

I've been running around with barrels of seeds back and forth from the crop fields to the pens, which works fine, though you do need a huge amount of seed-yielding crops
Pumpkins seem hard to transport with wheelbarrows since they can only carry one pile, is there something else you can use to haul them over? Thanks!

[MagicManICT]

Crops are all about the same. Some are easier to manage than others. Quality is what matters: make sure it's high enough to keep from softcapping your livestock.

[Amanda44]

Beets are quite handy as you get the leaves as well as the crop, the leaves stockpile into piles of 250.
Pumpkins can be split and stockpilke into 80.

You can load your wheelbarrows into a cart and transport them that way, barrels too ofc.

[DoctorCookie]

once you get to a certain number of animals its going to be a real chore to keep up unless you are using whole pumpkins.

[tigerlrg245]

Yea don't split pumpkins (except of course enough to get seeds to refill), stack them to 30 then use wheelbarrow to put them inside a trough/cistern immediately,
they don't require a lot of work so good solution if you dont want to bot or spend too much time on the game and still be efficient

[Amanda44]

Yeah, I only mentioned the pumpkin splitting in passing really, I'd been baking pies so I guess it was in my head, lol, though you can then also use the seeds for fodder too.

[MagicManICT]

Used to be splitting the pumpkins was more efficient than whole ones if you wanted to bother with it. I'm guessing that has been fixed since legacy?

Personally, I always brought troughs to the field, filled them there, then hauled them back. That was before wheelbarrows, of course, but it is an option. And probably the smarter one as long as the troughs hold more than one wheelbarrow up materials.

[Infinity-Production]

Quality of the food matters, as an example i had to learn the hard way. I bought a q 200 roster and sins the food was bad its quality permanently reduced to q 134, it was a combination of bad water and not the best food.
In my experience best animal food are carrots, they increase fastest in quality so they got more uses than just animal feed, you can use them to make high quality wax, honey and mulch, those things require somewhat big fields.
They are a bit annoying to handle if they get past their seed stage, then you have to use a wheelbarrow to put them in to a feeding though, compared to seed stage you can use buckets.

[Onep]

I just do flax. You need so much flax for spamming curios and other junk that I always have a ton of seeds left over.

[HarryDresden]

I generally went with Hemp. You can get a lot of resources from it (Buds, Seeds, Plant Fibers) that you can use for multiple things you need every day, plus the hunger modifier from the hemp.