My base gets crowded by chicken and it is a bother to select manually to sacrifice them, especially when I have more kinds of animals, so I was wondering if there is a mod that lets you sacrifice them after they reach a certain population or gives you some sort of population control
Colony Manager does that : https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=16120.0 (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=16120.0)
yes, i can attest colony manager handles chickens very well. I have my colony set to allow 12 female and 3 male chickens, and 15 female and 5 male chicks/juveniles. any time a colonist does "management" any chickens past those threshholds are automatically zoned to a new zone (2x1 zone in my freezer) and marked for slaughter. The colony manager also automatically moves chickens from the baby area to the adult area (baby area is in front of the turrets, because they slow enemies, and grazable land is in short supply in my base).
I had to set all these criteria up, but once i did, the chickens manage themselves.
Also works to automatically mark trees, wild berry, and wild healroot bushes for cutting, animals for hunting, and theoretically animals for taming (which i've not had great success with, but i find "mass taming" assignments aren't very useful anyways). Very useful for managing populations of alpacas, cows, muffalos, and hauling animals (once you get an amount large enough that you want to start limiting the population) as well.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll be trying it right now!