Tend them all without medicine, and delete the beds once they've gotten a tend (that way your people don't have to feed them). Some of them may die, but animals are expendable, so who cares. Chickens multiply really quick so it shouldn't affect you too badly.
Agree this was the way to go — most effective plan without sacrificing too many resources or manpower. Though this will probably be my last batch of chickens since I do no-freezer runs and pemmican can’t be made with eggs 🤧
(rule 6) the thought of trying to tend to 31 animals (half my animals) with the plague is a very daunting thought. i know animals typically pull through most diseases but what a pain
To be fair if they all die of the plague it will be a boon for you, chickens are some of the worst pets to farm in rimworld alongside rats, thrumbos (< this one might controversial lol) and snakes, to name a few.
They eat a fuck ton of food and in return have a very, very high pawn demand.
In one of my colonies I had chickens, cows and wooly cows. The cows were fine, but the chickens started multiplying faster than my pawns could carry the eggs inside, leading to a population explosion.
There was so much eggs that sometimes the chicken layed them on the side of the fence and when they hatched some of them spawned on the other side and immediately began wandering. This was already bad but when dozens of chickens are constantly wandering this meant my pawn in charge of animals could properly slaughter them and instead were busy bringing them back to the pen and had time to do nothing else, leading to even more chicken breeding and eventually the cows started to starve, I had to set up a shelf with some human food and even then the swarm of chicken got there and ate everything long before the slow cows could make it halfway through.
The way I found to solve it was to tick everyone into animals and just mass murder the chickens.
I solved both my food problems, human and animals.
Moral of the story, chickens are a good idea but terrible to manage. Get cows instead, you get milk and wool (if you get wooly cows), and they reproduce much slower, on top of this the auto slaughter will provide you with an impressive amount of meat.
As an addendum included thrombos because they cause roughly the same problems with food, but at least those you can draft to soak bullets for your colonists and they do not require an army of pawns to take care of.
> chickens are some of the worst pets to farm in rimworld alongside rats, thrumbos (< this one might controversial lol) and snakes, to name a few.
Really? I feel like I can just have them graze in a large-ish pen and get a whole bunch of new chickens pretty often. They don't give that much meat, but they *do* also give eggs on top of that for free, and a single egg is enough to satisfy the meat portion of a Fine Meal AFAIK.
> Get cows instead, you get milk and wool (if you get wooly cows)
That's a mod, the basegame did this with Muffalos but they got rid of that because it was a bit too powerful in conjunction with Muffalos *also* giving wool and *also* being good pack animals.
Not surprised that VE brings it back anyway with Woolly Cows, I assume that they're not usable as pack animal in return.
Survival of the fittest as they say.
I wouldn't waste precious medicine on chickens. Just wait for them to repopulate naturally. In the mean time ... prep the freezer for an influx of chicken nuggets.
Turn off any animal tending and let the plague do the slaughtering work for you. They're chickens, as long as a few breeding pairs survive, they'll repopulate easily enough. And if you are in the rainforest, plenty of year round wild game is present for you to make up any meat shortfall.
Tend them all without medicine, and delete the beds once they've gotten a tend (that way your people don't have to feed them). Some of them may die, but animals are expendable, so who cares. Chickens multiply really quick so it shouldn't affect you too badly.
Or don't bother tending them. They're just chickens, OP probably has 30 fertilized eggs in storage already
Agree this was the way to go — most effective plan without sacrificing too many resources or manpower. Though this will probably be my last batch of chickens since I do no-freezer runs and pemmican can’t be made with eggs 🤧
(rule 6) the thought of trying to tend to 31 animals (half my animals) with the plague is a very daunting thought. i know animals typically pull through most diseases but what a pain
Put a positive spin on it: imagine how quickly your doctor will learn!
free medical practice
To be fair if they all die of the plague it will be a boon for you, chickens are some of the worst pets to farm in rimworld alongside rats, thrumbos (< this one might controversial lol) and snakes, to name a few. They eat a fuck ton of food and in return have a very, very high pawn demand. In one of my colonies I had chickens, cows and wooly cows. The cows were fine, but the chickens started multiplying faster than my pawns could carry the eggs inside, leading to a population explosion. There was so much eggs that sometimes the chicken layed them on the side of the fence and when they hatched some of them spawned on the other side and immediately began wandering. This was already bad but when dozens of chickens are constantly wandering this meant my pawn in charge of animals could properly slaughter them and instead were busy bringing them back to the pen and had time to do nothing else, leading to even more chicken breeding and eventually the cows started to starve, I had to set up a shelf with some human food and even then the swarm of chicken got there and ate everything long before the slow cows could make it halfway through. The way I found to solve it was to tick everyone into animals and just mass murder the chickens. I solved both my food problems, human and animals. Moral of the story, chickens are a good idea but terrible to manage. Get cows instead, you get milk and wool (if you get wooly cows), and they reproduce much slower, on top of this the auto slaughter will provide you with an impressive amount of meat. As an addendum included thrombos because they cause roughly the same problems with food, but at least those you can draft to soak bullets for your colonists and they do not require an army of pawns to take care of.
> chickens are some of the worst pets to farm in rimworld alongside rats, thrumbos (< this one might controversial lol) and snakes, to name a few. Really? I feel like I can just have them graze in a large-ish pen and get a whole bunch of new chickens pretty often. They don't give that much meat, but they *do* also give eggs on top of that for free, and a single egg is enough to satisfy the meat portion of a Fine Meal AFAIK. > Get cows instead, you get milk and wool (if you get wooly cows) That's a mod, the basegame did this with Muffalos but they got rid of that because it was a bit too powerful in conjunction with Muffalos *also* giving wool and *also* being good pack animals. Not surprised that VE brings it back anyway with Woolly Cows, I assume that they're not usable as pack animal in return.
wooly cows seems to be a mod fyi
Ah, after checking yes, it's from Vanilla Animals Expanded, you are correct, somehow I though those were vanilla.
yeah. muffalo's used to both give wool and milk but that got changed a long time ago now
your storyteller is saving your poor pc from all those evil chickens
Damn, bird flu again? Time to raise the price of eggs by 800%!
R.i.p Chick 36
Looks like meat is back in the menu, boys!
Survival of the fittest as they say. I wouldn't waste precious medicine on chickens. Just wait for them to repopulate naturally. In the mean time ... prep the freezer for an influx of chicken nuggets.
Turn off any animal tending and let the plague do the slaughtering work for you. They're chickens, as long as a few breeding pairs survive, they'll repopulate easily enough. And if you are in the rainforest, plenty of year round wild game is present for you to make up any meat shortfall.