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Pigs and Pumpkins - A Warning!

It doesn't pay to feed Pumpkins to Pigs.  Most of you may know this but many Newbs and I did not.  I know that you get one Pumpkin per seed.  I was unable to play earlier today and am a little late in growing my pumpkins so I decided to feed my piggies instead of taking time to go to the Vendor.  I removed 30 pumpkins from my SDB and went to the piggies in my back yard (only 3).  I fed each one 10 pumpkins.  The options showed that I could do that.  Well, even though I was told I was feeding 10 pumpkins to each pig, I, in fact, only fed one at a time!  Each plop gave me only one seed (not unexpected).  I had to feed 30 times to get those pumpkins into the 3 pigs.  This gave me only 18 seeds!  The result is, it is tedious and unprofitable to feed pumpkins to pigs (unless they are starving).

ETA:  I did this again.  I fed one Pumpkin to each pig and got one seed back.  I repeated this 3 times and each time I got one seed per pumpkin which is what I expected to start.  I think the difference may be that the first time I did it I fed each pig 10 pumpkins according to the options when, in fact, each pig only ate 1.  I did that feeding of 10 several times.  this may have something to do with why I got only 18 seeds from 30 Pumpkins.  Tedious though it is, you can eventually get one seed per pumpkin if you take your time.

Posted 81 days ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Im glad Im too lazy to feed my pigs crops. Hell, after reading this Im glad Im not into crops at all. I buy them.
    Posted 81 days ago by Serenity's Mommy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, Pumpkins are special. They can even be grown in herb gardens - you don't feed piggies your herbs, do you?
    Posted 81 days ago by Stuv Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i was wondering about this, thank you!
    Posted 81 days ago by Kay Nine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can shuck Herbs so I have no need to feed them to pigs.  I cannot shuck pumpkins but I can feed them to pigs and get seeds.  Now I know that I won't get the same number of seeds as pumpkins fed though and that I can only feed one pumpkin at a time.  Lesson learned!
    Posted 81 days ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink