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Piggy Feeding Question

Why would a piggy go hungry in a yard full of trees just because the feeder is empty?  Does a feeder preempt nibbling on the trees?  Dr. Porkchop isn't bound by a piggy stick, so wanders the entire yard.  My street piggies have no feeder, plenty of trees and full freedom to wander, and they're not hungry.

What gives?

Posted 5 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Piggies only feed from a tree when they are being interacted with. Even so piggies do not thrive if trees are there on;y food. They will survive longer then without the trees but not nearly as long as using a feeder or hand feeding
    Posted 5 months ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Are you petting and watering the trees in your backyard? Piggies only seem able to feed off of trees that glitchen have recently interacted with. Your home street piggies are likely okay because of visitor interactions with your trees. Try loving up your backyard trees when Dr. P is in the vicinity and he'll likely hightail it over and have a nosh.
    Posted 5 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Excellent suggestions!  Thank you. 
    Posted 5 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • IrenicRhonda says that piggies do not last as long without a feeder? I've had the same pigs on my street for ages and they are free range with trees, I do not have feeders. I haven't had one die that I know of yet. Can anyone verify that pigs cannot live on trees alone?

    (I hate messing with feeders, that's why I free ranged my pigs and let them eat off the trees.)
    Posted 5 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Has the mechanism by which pigs eat from feeders changed recently? I have 2 feeders close to each other and hadn't moved them. It used to be that the piggies would eat from one feeder until it was empty before switching to the other feeder. Now I noticed that both feeders are being eaten from at the same rate. Are the piggies eating twice as much as they used to?
    Posted 5 months ago by >^.^< Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've never been able to figure out any sort of logic regarding my piggies (I have two herds of 40) and their eating habits. It seems like they empty different feeders, at different rates, on different days. Maybe they're stress eaters. =/
    Posted 5 months ago by TransplantedEntwife Subscriber! | Permalink
  • All my piggies and the replacements I raised suddenly started starving to death in my back yard with trees I "interact" with all the time.   This started in June.  Before that, I had 3 piggies in my back yard for more than six months with no issues.  Something has changed.
    Posted 5 months ago by Corduroy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Blah blah blah. We could go around and around about this forever. This thread, like so many others, is basically a guess exchange.  Only TS can clear this up. But don't hold your breath.
    Posted 5 months ago by Miss Bobbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For what it's worth, I found two isolated piggies in Pinhigh Prose.  They were on ledges with a bubble tree on it.  Both were petted, but were nibbled out.  When I petted the trees, they went to it and said "Yum."  Less than a minute later, both let me nibble them.

    So -- if you find a no-nibble piggy, pet a nearby tree and wait a minute after Yum time!
    Posted 5 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Miss Bobbit: This is true, however, sometimes a dev will come in and clear things up, so I figure it can't hurt to ask. They'll either answer or they won't. ;)
    Posted 5 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have been lucky and my piggies have been pretty resilient. But I swear that my butterflies die if I so much as look at them! As far as I can tell, any interaction at all harms them. I have had them all up and die after I moved their collector over a little bit. They are so pretty that when they die it is really depressing. But I have gotten to the point that I now think of them as disposable, sort of like flying kleenex. I never name them anymore and I try not to look at them. It is sad because I used to really love them. It is doubly depressing that we have no way of knowing the real facts about how to take care of our animals.
    Posted 5 months ago by BogBlossum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Someone did the research and found that 300 milkings will kill a butterfly.
    Posted 5 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • (And that includes collectors.)
    Posted 5 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink