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what do you put in your piggy feeders? Why
My real question, does higher energy food last longer in the feeders? I could fill them with eggs or meat, I could fill them with grain. Do they go through the grain faster because there is less energy in eating gone grain, or does it last just as long as eggs or meat?
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1 food (any type) = 1 unit of filling for the feeders
so it's best to feed them grain - Yeah, it isn't like distilling where you get more bang for your buck from potatoes. Grain.
- Grain, Grain, Grain, Grain. Or whatever crop I have a surplus of.
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I use mainly zucchini and secondly broccoli. They're not much used in recipes so it's nice to have something to use them for.
Anything you put into a piggy feeder just becomes 1 unit of pig food, so any special characteristics of that food are wiped out. So, to answer your question, no type of food will last longer than any other type. - When you put crops into the piggy feeder, do the piggies make plops? I have always used grain because I have tons of it.
- No plops from feeder crops. Stick with the grain (unless you are just looking to get rid of some crops).
- Drink a gurly drink before squeezing chickens for grain.
- I do eggs, only because I have 15 egg trees on my street.
- Squeeze my chickens to fill the feeders. Grain!
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- I put meat in my piggy feeder - have an abundance of it.. so empty the collector and feed the piggies.. what goes in ~ must come out...
- I use grain unless I've been away for a while then all the feeders get meat the first time (if they were all empty when I got back lol)
- I like to feed them allspice--makes for spicy bacon!
- Grain or meat from me. Usually meat, because I usually gather it more than grain.
- I usually put beans, cherries, allspice, eggs, and bubbles, mostly because I have those trees, but I don't really need them right now. Free, plentiful, and fills the feeder :)
- Grain, it's cheap and my chickens are right next to my pigs!
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Grain, every time
I too keep my chickens next to the feeder -
spinach
Fast to grow, doesn't sell for very much, and I don't have to squeeze any chickens. - Chalk up another vote for grain. I keep a couple chickens on my street strictly for feeding the pigs and incubating butterfly eggs. I hope one day the feeders get the same treatment as the stills but I imagine there are a lot more higher priority changes that need to be done first.
- Grain. Beans if I'm out of grain and am in a super hurry.
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Purple, for all of the reasons that WindBorn does spinach.
*hides face and shakes head at shame of having drugged out piggies* - Grain, and only grain.
- Grain and sometimes allspice if I am out of grain
- I have almost always done 1/2 grain and 1/2 whatever I have lots of and am not using. The piggies produce meat longer if they get more than just grain...or something. When I fed only grain, they would sometimes stop producing meat? It was months and months ago, something might have changed...but that's what caused my feeding style and I still use it =]
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I feed my piggies 100% authentic, name-brand Soylent Pink.
No, no. No need to know what's in it. It's completely healthy. - I mostly use grain, because it's fast and cheap, but I have also used rice, zucchini, and cucumbers because I grew a lot of them. Very rarely I will use planks, they are easy to get but they sell well, so not necessarily the most economical choice. Once I used meat, but frankly, that kind of creeps me out.
- Grain - it's cheap, fast and I can easily replenish with chickens. Unless, of course, lag or spamming forces me to feed them allspice.
- Grain lol apart from that one time i added a stack of awesome stew oh what a waste
- The finely chopped bodies of my enemies. Piggies are great at that sort of disposal.
- Grain. You jjust get so much of it.
- I don't have feeders. My street has an abundance of trees, my pigs have survived just fine eating from the trees, which are watered and petted regularly.
- Spinach and purple. I hope they enjoy it.
- I put allspice because I have so much.
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I used to grow zucchini specifically for my feeders so I could keep it separate from my foodables and my distillables. Then I went on a cubi-buying rampage and now it is spinach all the way. Quick, cheap, nutritious.
My biggest feeder mistake? I was playing nearly asleep one night at one or two a.m. and I dropped in a whole stack o' sno-cones. I almost cried. I started hitting Ctrl-Z! "Nooooooo! Give them baaaaaack!" I am glad no one witnessed this up close and personal. - Zucchini. What to do with it? I go on crop routes and have tons of Zucchini when I'm done. Not to many recipes call for Zucchini yet everyone likes to fill up the gardens with it. So my piggies get fed Zucchini.
- grain or whatever else I have that is plentiful -- beans, cherries. If the feeder is empty I'll put at least one meat and one egg in. At one point I had over 2000 eggs so my piggies got eggs.
- I grow corn exclusively for feeding my piggies.