I am not sure this is a bug or not- i did file a bug report-just wanted to put the info out here in a thread in case anyone has similar experiences to share.
I was in my farm today , Monday in real life , and the same number and combo of critters that were happy yesterday are having issues today .
21 piggies and 15 butterflies and 1 chicken worked fine before in my 50k home ,in the pen.
I had 2 butterflies to die off overnight, so I added 2back .
Got sad butterflies - I had to release a butterfly- and am still having troubles.
The most odd thing is that once the animals seemed to settle and be happy , when i walked back into the pen from other part of the yard - then a butterfly would fall sad.
It seemed to me that my presence was affecting them . The only thing i can think that is different about "me" is that I was carrying 2 chicks in my backpack which I dont normally carry any on me .
I will experiment a bit more. but not extensively as this affects my game income.
But bascially, I am very frustrated as , this issue may be affecting my collectors -which means it's affecting my income !!
Since it seems (not sure) that my collectors are not working the same while I have had sad animals in the pen . The closest butterfly milker didnt seem to fill when i had sad butterfly. And now I am concerned about my meat collectors too.
Does anyone know how often the colectorss update ? And in general what the collection rate should be-??
ie if you have a herd like mine- should you see 5 or 6 meat increase in the collector for every 10 real life minutes or ???