Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Chickens produce 2 half-size chicken eggs for 1 goose egg. Overeating, and the existence of roosters, will lower nutrition efficiency in practice. and our By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. The most traditional farm bird, the chicken is raised for its eggs and meat. omg on a slightly off topic amusing enough this is also true in dwarf fortress, geese are the better pick over chickens for bird raising XD. Cows are the easiest food animal to keep if youre on a map with a lot of grazing time per year, and they provide a lot of profit in the form of meat, milk, and leather. Chinchillas are the number two overall, with foxes, Guinea Pigs, and Ibex rounding out the top five in terms of nutrition to profit efficiency. So far I've managed. Privacy Policy. Chickens are no joke. As a gosling grows into adulthood it will consume 2.9 nutrition in total, and will yield 3.35 more nutrition when slaughtered than it would as a baby. My experiment : I gave a 1 year supply of hay to Chickens and Cows and I measured the amount of proteins they produced. All RimWorld Animals - RimWorld Wiki Guide - IGN One thing to keep in mind though: if you want to sell the raiders clothes, remember to strip them right after battle. https:. Today we find out WHO's the real Permaculture Chicken Ninja Master in this blind taste test of a GOOSE and CHICKEN eggs. When eating eggs raw, geese are inferior to chickens. Cows, on the other hand, are still good even if you have to feed them, so I definitely recommend them. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. First of all : a lot of numbers in the wiki about animals are not reliable for theorycrafting (hunger rate, laying/milking intervals etc). Place all the chickens at the start, start a fire, and seal it up. Roosters tend to be bossy, even when they're young. It can be eaten raw, but it's much better cooked. You ideally don't want to keep either but if you had to pick between 1 or the other geese. Learn to. But I'm more interested in steady farms than exponentially growning livestock. Additionally, its important to restrict your birds to the growing field and animal bed room, or they'll wander off and go eat raw rice and simple meals and stuff. Behavior. Lays eggs very often, however they take a long time to hatch. Enjoy this? (when converting hay into proteins in A17) I tried to create an efficient farm, in order to provide lavish meals and great quality of life to my people. The turkey is a large bird that lays eggs. First of all : a lot of numbers in the wiki about animals are . An adult goose consumes 0.45 nutrition per day, and produces 0.25 nutrition of eggs each day, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of 55.8% when unfertilized eggs are eaten. Hydroponics basins can also be used to plant rice, potatoes or strawberries, and grows them at a considerably increased rate. It can be eaten raw, but it's much better cooked. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. I tried to create an efficient farm, in order to provide lavish meals and great quality of life to my people. a fine meal requires only one egg and 5 vegetables. When slaughtered as adults, geese have a true nutrition efficiency of 104.4% (with a 4:1 female:male ratio). Alternatively I get 95% of my meat from hunting (obviously ice sheet is different) and 2 sun lamps will feed 10 people. This safes your colonists work and the "we butchered humanlike" mood penalty. As a gosling grows into adulthood it will consume 2.9 nutrition in total, and will yield 3.35 more nutrition when slaughtered than it would as a baby. It grows very quickly and lays eggs very often. *As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. I thin the herd occasionally but id like a dedicated meat source. As of A16, extreme temperatures will kill the animal within the egg, rendering fertilized eggs unable to hatch. Like all farm animals geese cannot be found in the wild, and must be purchased from traders. Male turkeys can be distinguished by a red head and neck, blue body, and a large fanned tail while females are largely brown with a downwards angled tail. Goose | RimWorld Bestiary Wiki | Fandom How the Eggs of Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, and Geese Compare This page was last edited on 30 November 2022, at 17:32. Birdskin isn't a particularly great leather, but it can be sold for some cash if you happen to be using geese in your colony. Corpses . For you or your loved ones! A duck egg weighs a little more at 2.6 ounces. By slaughtering the geese rather than eating the unhatched fertilized egg, more nutrition is gained (0.85 rather than 0.5). Note that this animal is now part of vanilla game in 1.1. In addition, you can assign zones for chickens that are marked for slaughter, and they will move there automatically. Males of the species are referred to as Roosters and can be distinguished by their ruddy brown coloration, while females are referred to as Hens and are white. This persona trait grants +20% psyfocus whenever its wielder kills any pawn, even when slaughtering chickens or chicks. The hens laid 252 Nutrition worth of eggs. Turkeys have three attacks: scratch (feet), bite (beak) and less commonly used, blunt (head). That's another "plus" to cows when compared to chickens. With this ratio of geese, you reach a nutrition efficiency of 75.9%. If you manage the chick slaughtering, you get more meat. An adult hen consumes 0.22 nutrition per day, and produces 0.25 nutrition of eggs each day. This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 06:57. But ducks consume 20% more nutrition, so they are inferior as livestock. Thankfully, taming is straightforward. Alternative idea: forget about the chickens, and get some pigs instead. Then there are the endlessly produced maps on which to build your colonies. Plants must be 60% or above grown for animals to eat them. Best food animals? : r/RimWorld - reddit High-resolution charts with concurrent player counts for all Steam games, including historic data and stats. I would say, if you're able to, change the way your coop works: Build a smaller hut for the chickens, with sleeping spots and the hay stockpile, and give them a 'wander area' ~20x20 centered on the barn. Are there any mods that will help you with the farm? As they'd soon eat all your dandellions, it's inportant to assign all these little fuckers to a 11 animal area with a door and a cooler set to a really low temperature, preferably in your meat storage area. They are carried inside a female of an egg-laying species until they are ready to be laid, at which point they become a workable item and the female's egg-laying timer resets to zero. Animals and wildlife play a significant role in RimWorld. Compared to their domesticated brethren, which have been selected over thousands of years for larger size, wild geese don't lay as many eggs, and they are renowned for their aggressive temperament. Wild Goose | RimWorld Bestiary Wiki | Fandom It can be eaten raw, but it's much better cooked. You may also like All Best Animals to Tame Rimworld and Rimworld How To Feed Animals? 42 as a juvenile; or Peace was never an option. In conclusion, a good use of this mod can make your farm auto-sustainable. To avoid this situation, once you have enough hens, keep only one rooster in a separate zone in your farm (slaughter all the other roosters). You can store hay and kibble all year round with no access for animals, waiting for winter to come. Making a caravan is not required to tie animals to a caravan hitching spot. The result was astonishing : Cows produced 3 times as much nutrition as Chickens. Eggs used this way can provide the "meat" requirement for Fine and Lavish meals. If all goes well, it should hatch into a goose. However, they were nerfed in Alpha 17 in both body size and breeding rate, making them significantly less efficient than they used to be. Once tamed, pen animals cannot and do not need to be trained any further. It can be eaten raw, but it's much, much better cooked. Also hope you have a big freezer. The foodstock was depleted after 0.693 year. Never before has a rooster been aptly named. No dessicated corpses everywhere. But the labor cost of butchering the chicks is huge, and a full stack of eggs has 5x more nutrition than meat (so you save on hauling labor . You will be slaughtering roosters to feed your colony, so you need to keep breeding them. Zhentar 6 yr. ago. Oddly enough, He eventually got named by someone. Buying multiple hens at this point will ensure you have more chicks or eggs sooner, but we recommend to buy only one rooster. Ibex are less efficient, but take far less slaughtering work. Chickens can not be found in the wild; they must be bought from a merchant or join the colony in a self-taming event. Chickens grow very quickly, taking only 12 days to mature, placing them among the fastest-growing animals. It can be eaten raw, but it's much better cooked. Variety of leathers (I have more leather now than when I was slaughtering chicks). The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. There was a lot of stuff going down in my colony so I'm not 100% sure about those numbers. They don't provide much nutrition, but grow much faster and can be eaten much earlier than haygrass. Tired of going hunting? Chickens can lay both unfertilized and fertilized eggs, depending on if it has mated with a rooster. But chickens don't give any leather! The pause during the night increases many intervals, especially for chickens. Who ever exits the maze alive will live on as the fittest for survival and the rest will become delicious chicken wings. If you have only one killbox entrance it will take a lot of walking sometimes to get your dude back home and if a raid spawns between your hunter and home, that may be an issue. If you set a maximum amount of hens and chickens, the spare ones will be marked for slaughter automatically. Author of the How to have an efficient Rimworlds Chicken Farm: Natrium. It can be eaten raw, but it's much, much better cooked. This MUST be fixed! Ducks provide the same yield in both meat and eggs. No leather is yielded. Step number one in the world of animal husbandry is taming. chicken eggs, put them outside in a double walled coup, had a 14x5 field of hay grass growing inside and an extra 700 hay stockpiled inside the coop Five days later and all the hay is completely gone and my chickens were starving. In this case, there is no way of knowing whether the born chicks will be male or female, so buy plenty to make sure there is at least one rooster. 3 Will let you included Healroot and cotton. Maybe growing hay in the coop would help? An adult turkey consumes 0.45 nutrition per day, and female turkeys produce 0.75 turkey eggs. Select the animal in question, then in the . Combined with their incredibly fast reproduction rate of 1 offspring per day, a population of chickens can rapidly explode from a single rooster and hen, theoretically increasing to a population of 1200 adults within the span of just a year. I then set them to stay in a small area just outside the fields and now have a HUGE surplus of hay. See, it's usually better to use the eggs from chickens as the 'meat' (animal products count as meat, like milk and eggs), so you only ever need hens. In this guide you will find everything there is to know about maintaining a self-sustainable chicken farm to keep your Rimworlds colonists fed for the years to come. Elephants are the easiest and most useful animal to keep, as they are tough in combat, good movers, profitable . Mechanics Produces eggs Wild geese are farm animals and as such need to be penned. An Egg box can be used to direct egg laying animals where to lay eggs. Horses, cows, muffalos, and bisons, on the other hand, are still viable possibilities. Roosters you bought directly from merchants dont need to be tamed, they will go wherever you tell them to via an animal area. To diffuse the situation I decided to use my doctor to euthanize all the chickens and get his medicine skill up. The foodstock was depleted after 0.625 year. It can be eaten raw, but it's much better cooked. You can move him into the area with females whenever you need more chickens. They ate about 200-250 hay per day from what I counted. Chickens or Eggs? : r/RimWorld - reddit If all goes well, it should hatch into a baby cassowary. Roosters have more stamina and strength than female chickens. Chicken VS Duck (Fight) - YouTube Duck - RimWorld Wiki Some facts for a profitable Rimworlds Chicken Farm. Find a merchant that sells fertilized chicken eggs. Turkey and goose eggs are similar to each other in shape, and both are pointier than chicken or duck eggs. You can then set a secondary area just inside the barn, so if your map can get cold your chickens won't freeze to death and it's easier to heat. Because it's the theorical number to deplete the 1320 Nutrition in a full year, when taking the wiki hunger rate (spoiler, animals eat more than expected). TLDR : Cows have over 60% efficiency. Upload your own content or check out what others have to share! No lag spikes when 100 eggs hatch at once. Discussion, screenshots, and links, get all your RimWorld content here! If eaten raw, both generate the "Ate raw food" thought. Previous topic - Next topic. When slaughtered as babies, turkeys produce 0.478 nutrition of meat per day. Due to the effects of overeating, letting chickens grow up is a slight malus to meat yield. They provide cannon fodder if I don't recall them fast enough in a raid, be that accidental or on purpose. When eggs are allowed to hatch and are slaughtered as babies, chickens become even better for meat. A goose lays an egg every 1.6 days compared to 2 days for a chicken. It has been long domesticated, but also lives in the wild. Chickens have below 20% efficiency. A female turkey produces 1 turkey egg every 1.333 day when fertilized. The main competitors are the ibex and tortoise. Chicken's rapid reproduction makes them good fodder for the Kill-focused persona trait. A goose egg weighs an amazing 5 ounces, or . Numbers for Cows : 1320 Nutrition of Hay given to 24 Cows and 1 Bull. Goose - RimWorld Wiki Yes, Chickens reproduce faster than cows. For more information, please see our Cities Skylines How to Get American Buildings ? ProteinToHayRatio = 19.1% so less than 20% efficiency at producing proteins. The possibility to create an outside barn decreases a lot the hauling time to provide hay and harvest animal products for cows, because there are no doors to slow down the large hauling in & out the barn.