Feeding sanctuary animals takes SO much fish

blackbrit & BauldersGate

To answer your question...my animals are sleeping, almost always. I rarely wake them.

Regarding what BauldersGate statet, yes, I agree too. That's the reason that I am way behind having all possible animals. I don't feel like collecting them, it's a never ending story.

I produce some meat buckets occasionally when I have extra fish. (In times when I have done a lot of valley fishing and or event fishing etc). I do the same with wheat bundles.

My sanctuary animals are mostly asleep. I feed them when I have too many bundles and buckets or I feed a few when I have a farm pass task to feed them.


Straying a little from the topic.. in much the same way I hardly ever bother to feed my dogs and cats it just takes too much milk and bacon and the bacon and milk I can get from playing I really need to spend on other stuff.
I do feed all the carrot animals as it’s easy enough to grow a bunch.

I agree it takes WAY too much time and materials to feed the sanctuary animals, so a while back I stopped trying to get puzzle pieces. I make feed overnight and wake all the animals up each morning but then leave them when they fall asleep until the next morning. I stopped collecting puzzle pieces when I had 24 wheat eaters and 3 meat eaters. That works out to filling one entire feed mill with 8 wheat bundles and 1 bucket over night. That allows for my second feed mill to remain open for other things.

haha, even though I don’t bother feeding them much like I said earlier I do still work on puzzle pieces. Currently working on the baby meerkats. 
I choose puzzels in derby prizes, make an effort to do puzzle boats, choose puzzles in the valley etc. 
Somehow I just like collecting them. For me they’re smaller goals which are realistic and not years in the future, like collecting all the permits or never ending barn and silo upgrades. I guess I’m weird that way 

Well, inspired by you all, I am no longer feeding my sanctuary animals every day - or twice a day as I usually did. I do like collecting the points they give, but it’s not really worth it given the impact on fish resources and the feed mills. I doubt this it what SC would call “inspiration” but to me, in the broader scheme of things to keep the game sane, it sure is!

blackbrit

What you described sounds familiar. I remember a posting or a thread.....I think it was shepherdgirl or BostonGirl....who noticed exactly the same behavior. The only thing I don't know is whether they referred to the farm animals (dogs, cats etc) or the sanctuary animals.

Both have the same glitch. If some time past since you fed them they take the food instantly and go to sleep again. This is very annoying especially because you need basics like milk and bacon very often, better said always. The same can happen with the animals which require carrots, but that's manageable. Milk and bacon is another thing. Not to mention fish and haystacks. Fish is in high demand for many products and haystacks are lasting forever until they are ready. To fullfill the needs of the sanctuary animals regularly you have to make sure that one of your 2 feed mills is working a whole night to produce the hay stacks. That is ridiculous and not comprehensible.

I am also not willing to do this, due to this those animals are sleeping the most time. I only wake them if I happen to have plenty of bacon and milk and if I am in the mood to produce haystack. Mostly this isn't the case.

Logical conclusion....sleeping animals. 😉