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How often do I need to feed piggies?

Hi! :D I just bought my first house, and it came with 5 piggies. How often do I need to feed them? I don't have remote herdkeeping yet (Donating is expensive :<) but I also don't want my piggies to starve!

Also, what happens to them if I don't log in for a while? :/

Thanks!

Posted 14 months ago by Katherinesaur Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I usually just drop a bunch of veggies/fruit or grain on the ground so I don't have to worry about a feeding schedule.  
    I do not know the answer to your specific question, however.  Sorry.
    Posted 14 months ago by Poppy of Detwoit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Define "awhile"

    I long in once each RL day and before RHK my piggies never died. I had garden crops and trees, but I never left extra food on the ground for them. I hand feed them whenever I am home.

    If they starve they will turn into sad little piles of meat, or so I hear.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you drop stuff on the ground, it stays there and is edible for them? It won't vanish after a while?
    Posted 14 months ago by Katherinesaur Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's my understanding that things don't just go away, even if they are left on the ground.  I am under the impression that if something doesn't get picked up or used then it stays where it is.

    With the exception of water cups. 
    Posted 14 months ago by Poppy of Detwoit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Inside your house and yard, things dropped stay there. Out in the world, I don't know if this is the case.
    Posted 14 months ago by Columbina Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Piggies do go hungry! They will have a red-outlined "knife & fork" icon above them when starving. Fed one about 100 grain and it was still hungry, so do not know when they get full.

    Have about four or five on the bottom level of the street I live on and drop about 100-200 grain in clumps every couple days, and it always disappears in less than one RL day.

    They will eat berries from Fruit Trees, crops and other items left on the ground as well.

    But use a piggie feeder!
    Posted 14 months ago by Dorko Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do believe manually feeding piggies is broken.  I've submitted a bug report on that.  I had an instance where I kept feeding beans and cherries to a hungry piggy and still couldn't nibble.  Dropped some on the ground, he ate, and I was able to nibble.

    That being said, the piggies in my home did not feed from grain on the ground, so it's possible another glitch swiped your grain.
    Posted 14 months ago by Joojoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't have remote herdkeeping yet, so I can't use a piggy feeder. :(

    But thanks! I'll keep feeding them regularly, but it sounds like I don't have to worry about feeding them every Glitch-day, which is what I was worried about.
    Posted 14 months ago by Katherinesaur Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If your piggies are hungry and you are hand-feeding them, try something more substantial than  grain or cherries, like meat or eggs. Yes, piggies eat meat and eggs, and it only takes about 1 of either for your piggy to allow you to nibble.
    Posted 14 months ago by Zany Serendipity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What's a good piggy food? Will they gnosh on beans? Seems like there's a billion bean trees...
    Posted 14 months ago by Evadrepus Terramere Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think crops work best.  Three of any crop and you can nibble plus get a package of seeds.  If you're using your piggies to get seeds every few game days, they will not go hungry.

    Piggies in a pen will still starve even with food dropped on the ground in the pen.  I didn't log in for about 48 hours and lost my two piggies even though I had onions in the pen and they had been eating them.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I leave grain on the ground for my piggies and it goes because they eat it.  I used to be able to leave a few piles of 10 grains on the ground when I had five piggies and some of it was left on the ground when I came back IRL the next day.  Now I have about 9 piggies thanks to a neighbors gift of three piglets and now I have to leave a lot more.  I think they nibble the closest fruit tree to their pen too, but I'm not positive... I do think I see them stand near it and say "YUM" when they are not immediately standing over grain... but since they are in the pen, they don't really have access to the trees like piggies on the street do.

    I don't think it's a bug that you can't feed piggies grain and then nibble them.  I think it must be an equation of food energy ratio to how long they've been hungry.  Feeding them grain byn hand usually doesn't let me nibble starving piggies either, but feeding them some real glitch food does allow me to do so, but I've also noticed that putting food/grain on the ground will allow me to do so faster.  

    I have found piles of meat on housing complex streets where piggies used to roam, so I know it *is* important to feed them if you want them to stay "alive".  

    I tend to think they'll eat me out of house and home if I let them - meaning that they'll just keep eating and eating and never get "full".  They are piggies after all.  ;-D    
    Posted 14 months ago by Reba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Any idea if when on the ground energy matters or it's amount of food? I know that in a piggy feeder what you put in doesn't matter, they eat the same as it's just amount, and that when feeding them it takes quite a few grain but 1 meat will do (energy counts not amount), but on the floor?
    I'd assume the energy matters and not the amount because I would assume that the reason the piggy feeder has this problem is that it converts the food into being calculated as '1 feed', however on the ground it still counts as '1 meat/whatever it is', but I'm not sure. I've been leaving my piggy on my street grain, and he munches it up rather quickly so I leave him some meat now too.
    Posted 14 months ago by Bluigi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think there's some confusion about what I said in my post, so I'll clarify.  It's not a matter of how substantial the food is.  It was exactly the same food.

    1.  I manually fed a sad hungry piggy nearly 100 beans and cherries to no avail.
    2.  I dropped cherries on the ground and he ate just one and was ready to be nibbled.

    So you see, it was not the substantive nature of the food.  It was the same exact food.  Manual feeding didn't work.  Dropping it on the ground did.  That has all the hallmarks of a bug to me.
    Posted 14 months ago by Joojoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This should be on the bug board then, not in general.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I never feed my biggies and they never die.

    It's because I have an egg tree near them, BTW.
    Posted 14 months ago by Bashere Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lucille, the OP was a general question about feeding piggies.  I mentioned the possible bug in one of my replies, and yes I do have an open bug report on the issue...
    Posted 14 months ago by Joojoo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine seem to eat from my spice tree. there have been a few times I couldn't log in for a day or two and when I did, Piggies were fat and sassy, but the trees were a little bare. I figure this lends to well seasoned pork.
    Posted 14 months ago by MrVolare Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Manual feeding works if you give them Cooked Food, natural feeding works on any tree except wood and paper tree (My pig eat vapor btw)

    But if you have pigs at home, just don't forget to log in every day, I didn't log for few days although there's few trees along my backyard, but they died nonetheless 
    Posted 14 months ago by Aether Subscriber! | Permalink