Well I believe you can only have so many of 1 type of animal per screen before they feel "overcrowded". I remembered the Wiki saying 23 pigs.. but when I checked it later, it was changed to 26... well I tried 26 and they were overcrowded... I released 3 and they were fine. For butterflies, the limit is 5 and I am not sure about chickens. I live in a 50k Alakol house too so it should be the same for you.
I posted in another similar thread that before reset (living in 50k home) I had 13 (or 15?) each of piggies & butterflies plus 2 chickens... Trying to add more then that gave me overcrowding... But that was just my experience in my home....
During beta, I was able to have 17 butterflies in my house, without any other animals. Chickens was about the same, and I think I had 26 piggies.
After the dying butterflies update, I was only able to replenish my butterfly population to 13. Not sure if that was an adjustment or due to crowding from other animals.
I've got 15 piggies, 13 butterflies and 3 chickens.
They seem fine. I don't want to push for more right now and upset the balance, but eventually some butterflies will go and more piggies will arrive.
@tyfn The value of having more chickens is when you're doing the achievements where you need to raise 103 of each animal from chick - chicken, caterpillar - butterfly, piglet - piggy.
Having more than 1 hatcher made it go much faster.
After that, there's not so much value, unless you particularly like chickens I guess. I should probably release 2 of mine now and swap them for piggies :D
I have 19 Piggies, 12 Butterflies and 4 Chickens, and they are all getting on well. I get more meat and milk out of my collectors than I can use daily, which is all I wanted. Food self-sufficiency is all I aim for. I suspect somebody probably has worked out the 'optimal' combination.
The reason I ask is that I have (only!) 10 pigs and my 4 collectors fill up overnight. Not sure what I would do with more pigs. Collect more often? Get more collectors?
I know this thread's about 50k houses, but in case you're curious about a 5k bog house - 7 butterflies maximum, 13 piggies are okay but don't know much higher I can go. Don't know about chickens.
6 piggies, 3 chickens and 3 butterflies in 50k house.
But today my 3 butterflies are no more :( Two were a day younger than the other one so why they all died at the same time is beyond me. They left me some little bottles of milk which I thought was kinda cute....until a friend said that her 3 butterflies died too and they left milk and butterfly eggs!