Animal eating

[Sunni Daez]

Has the rate at which animals eat, increased recently? I have a few (or seen them) that are forever out of food. The hay in a trough doesn't rot, right? I have tried watching before as to how much they eat..but have yet to get the same answer twice.

[notsure]

Mine is starving and there is hay in the trough.

But I like being able to pet him.

notsure i'm meant to be a farmer

[Sunni Daez]

I do know some need hay and others need vegetable feed... a bushpig eats vegetable feed and cow eats hay.. they won't eat the other..

[Chroma Key]

According to Greek's original post, all animals can eat hay. However, there have been some irregularities lately. Maybe this is another bug?
I know that if an animal is able to eat vegetable feed, they prefer to eat that first if both hay and feed are available in the trough/other suitable food storage (platters, plates, grass baskets/duffel etc).
It would be nice to know for certain which animal eats what.

[SekoETC]

I don't think all animals eat hay. Pigs don't eat hay, right?

[SumBum]

You might also check if anyone has a taming project in progress. I've seen it happen where an animal that wasn't fully tamed created a message that it couldn't find food when there was none available. For example, 2 tamed animals were showing up on the objects screen. When they tried to eat and couldn't find any food, 3 animals created events that they were hungry. There was a taming project started with no progress on it.

That may have been fixed, though. I did report it but have no situations where I can test if a partially tamed animal actually eats the food. If so, it could explain why food is suddenly running out faster.

Just adding to the multitudes of different answers you've been given.

[Sunni Daez]

I had hay for a pig and he wouldn't eat it, so now we just use vegetable