I have a game right now where I have Alpaca's, Boomaloopes, and chickens.
It's quite time consuming to ensure I have "pens" and food for them. I've had to start keeping the males and females separated. At one point I had 130 boomaloopes on the map. And they're not the easiest to "slaughter". But I saw a youtube video about using them as attack dogs, so any time I got sieged or a poison ship I would zone them there and several forest fires later and a kind orbital trader i'm down to 15. But I still have to keep the boys and girls separate. Same on alpaca's. The Alpaca's for the most part can live off the grass but they can become to much as well so I had to separate them. I have about 20 of them now.
I also have 2 Labrador males and 1 arctic wolf male I started with called bart. I had a 3rd female Labrador dog and used to breed them and sold off the pups but she died in a meteorite crash when it blew up 3 boomaloops and half the alpaca's at the time. RANDY sure likes to mess with animals.
For my chickens they eat the most. I have a 10x10 room full of hay for them and when it hits about 1/3rd I kill all the chickens (chics included) except for my 6 originals atm (until they too old) to fertilize more eggs. I'm sitting on about 200-300 eggs to cook with at any given time as they can really start to produce if you don't collect the eggs. I will slaughter when they hit about 30 population. BUT if RANDY is being RANDY, I can easily get caught up in other matters and their population can soar to the 70-100 range. It took my cooks 3 days to slaughter and butcher all the chickens back down to my 6.
But animals are almost a time investment in their own right. If you're not used to animal farming I recommend getting a meat eating dog or giant cat. Taming boomaloopes, and until geothermal using EXCLUSIVELY chemfuel from your milked boomaloopes. You'll learn all the negative parts of animals slowly while at least getting a large/decent pay off. I like to have boomaloopes and a hair shearing animal. It's why I have alpaca's atm. But Muffalo's and Camel are good too. But by having a large Alpaca population I can use the hair to make my clothes and furniture so that the cloth is exclusively used for furniture that requires it and carpets. But mostly for carpets and crafting medicine.
Anyways sorry for the wall of text, but Animals can be both fun and a nightmare.
It's quite time consuming to ensure I have "pens" and food for them. I've had to start keeping the males and females separated. At one point I had 130 boomaloopes on the map. And they're not the easiest to "slaughter". But I saw a youtube video about using them as attack dogs, so any time I got sieged or a poison ship I would zone them there and several forest fires later and a kind orbital trader i'm down to 15. But I still have to keep the boys and girls separate. Same on alpaca's. The Alpaca's for the most part can live off the grass but they can become to much as well so I had to separate them. I have about 20 of them now.
I also have 2 Labrador males and 1 arctic wolf male I started with called bart. I had a 3rd female Labrador dog and used to breed them and sold off the pups but she died in a meteorite crash when it blew up 3 boomaloops and half the alpaca's at the time. RANDY sure likes to mess with animals.
For my chickens they eat the most. I have a 10x10 room full of hay for them and when it hits about 1/3rd I kill all the chickens (chics included) except for my 6 originals atm (until they too old) to fertilize more eggs. I'm sitting on about 200-300 eggs to cook with at any given time as they can really start to produce if you don't collect the eggs. I will slaughter when they hit about 30 population. BUT if RANDY is being RANDY, I can easily get caught up in other matters and their population can soar to the 70-100 range. It took my cooks 3 days to slaughter and butcher all the chickens back down to my 6.
But animals are almost a time investment in their own right. If you're not used to animal farming I recommend getting a meat eating dog or giant cat. Taming boomaloopes, and until geothermal using EXCLUSIVELY chemfuel from your milked boomaloopes. You'll learn all the negative parts of animals slowly while at least getting a large/decent pay off. I like to have boomaloopes and a hair shearing animal. It's why I have alpaca's atm. But Muffalo's and Camel are good too. But by having a large Alpaca population I can use the hair to make my clothes and furniture so that the cloth is exclusively used for furniture that requires it and carpets. But mostly for carpets and crafting medicine.
Anyways sorry for the wall of text, but Animals can be both fun and a nightmare.