Farming critique and fertilizer

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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby chrisrock » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:27 am

Drevar wrote:Needs to be something besides straight up animal manure.

the answer is simple... hearthlings need to poop. everyday.
and then use that as a fertilizer.
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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby TeckXKnight » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:39 am

chrisrock wrote:the answer is simple... hearthlings need to poop. everyday.
and then use that as a fertilizer.

What is this ARK? Are we going to begin harvesting newbies, rounding them up into cages and forcing them to poop to feed our farms before killing them?
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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby chrisrock » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:54 am

TeckXKnight wrote:What is this ARK? Are we going to begin harvesting newbies, rounding them up into cages and forcing them to poop to feed our farms before killing them?

that would actually be pretty cool imo
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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby Sevenless » Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:06 pm

Maiden wrote:Honestly? You need to do large scale animal husbandry, because if you have like, enough cows that they plot out a baby a day, you might get one worth keeping a month.

However, while animal shit in general is a good fertilizer, I would suggest pigs. Cows already give milk, sheep give wool, all pigs give is meat.


I think that's a swell idea, although I'm really hoping we'd see some variety (guano, compost, pig manure, etc).
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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby Granger » Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:06 pm

Maiden wrote:Honestly? You need to do large scale animal husbandry, because if you have like, enough cows that they plot out a baby a day, you might get one worth keeping a month.
Then you're doing something wrong.
Breed a strain for Milk, one for Hide, and one for Meat - then you will have more then one per month in case you have a calf a day (so 10 per strain per month).
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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby Maiden » Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:32 pm

Granger wrote:
Maiden wrote:Honestly? You need to do large scale animal husbandry, because if you have like, enough cows that they plot out a baby a day, you might get one worth keeping a month.
Then you're doing something wrong.
Breed a strain for Milk, one for Hide, and one for Meat - then you will have more then one per month in case you have a calf a day (so 10 per strain per month).


That's still 5 qualities you're breeding for for each strain
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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby Hervarth » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:11 pm

not on topic at all, but since you people seem to know about livestock, how do i improve the % numbers on them? i'm tired of q5 milk & wool, lol
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Re: Farming critique and fertilizer

Postby Sevenless » Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:08 pm

Hervarth wrote:not on topic at all, but since you people seem to know about livestock, how do i improve the % numbers on them? i'm tired of q5 milk & wool, lol


I've seen higher numbers in some pictures, I'm assuming they are related to successive generations.
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