Enhanced Animal System mod Farming Simulator 22

[Snake Man]

See also Animals Guide and Tutorial FS22 topic. Download Enhanced Animal System mod Giants Modhub.

This is my september 2025 notes about enhanced animal system mod usage when playing on PMC Undefined Farms 20km v0.2.7 terrain. I had chicken and sheep barns already running when I installed this mod, there was no issue doing it for existing animal placeables.

New animals appeared on first of brand new month at midnight 0000hrs. But I believe this is base game functionality already.

On my very first use of enhanced animal system mod, my chickens and sheep got mixed female and male offspring, first time I ever see that, nice. On the first offspring there was plenty of females which eventually grow to have their own offspring in a never ending cycle of life, very cool.

There are new 3d models with textures and also sounds for the baby animals. This is very refreshing to see actual new models, very cool indeed.

My second month changed to feb 1st, there was no births because females were not ready to give birth, guess it might become a bit overwhelming if you'd receive new offspring every single month. I had some animal upkeep fee reduced from my budget, it was multiple -$20 and one -$100, hmm I have no idea which ones these were.

Feb 1st was just walking around my farm yard checking chickens and sheep's, now those baby lambs and rams were up and about walking around, I have to say that looks very nice to have those new 3d models/textures for them instead of faked adult old default giants animal model used, super nice indeed, I really like it, I'm very excited about animals now. I simply cannot wait until I get to cattle, cows and pigs. Heck I'm almost considering buying horse stable/barn in this savegame to check it out although my understanding is that horses are somewhat "dumb animals in fs22" as you wont get any products, not even manure/slurry, out of them and all you can do is "useless visual" riding of them, I mean its very cool for the first time, but once you've done it... why do it again, other than role playing some cowboy by putting on the stetson at farmhouse and ride around the farm in your horse. Sure I admit it would be cool to have a relaxing horse ride around your fields, vehicle sheds etc, but especially on large terrains this might become not so relaxing but simply boring for those long distances, horse riding in farmsim just screams "ravenport pixel porno keeps stupid kidz happy" type of theme. But hey, maybe its me. At least I love chickens, sheep's, pigs and cattle/cows

Your animals grow during a month, but there will be no births (at least not yet in my savegame), so baby animal models like the chicken little chick models turn into actual chicken models to represent animal growth. So you cant expect new animals during a month but at least you get to see the chicks change into adult models during a month. This obviously assumes you're running more than 1 day seasons config, in my example I was running 9 day seasons which is the good old default from Farming Simulator 19 (FS19).

If you monitor your animal menu and see some animals split off from "the cluster", that is because some females gave birth and their stats changed, so they had to be separated. FS22 lists all identical animals in cluster "data package". I would say that over time as more and more of this happens you can take your initial animal purchases and kiss those clusters goodbye as they will very often change because births.

Mar 1st, new chickens have hatched, 5 * female and 4 * male. Happy birthday

2025-09-25T11:31:28Z

Apr 1st, new chickens have hatched, 13 * female and 11 * male.

May 1st, new chickens have hatched, 3 * female and 8 * male. A bit smaller female batch this time.

Jun 1st, new chickens have hatched, 9 * female and 11 * male, again higher load of males than females, maybe its just me but I consider these male animals in chickens and sheep's as useless as they don't reproduce, bulls and I assume boars are needed for reproduction on cow/pig side, hmm not sure if rams (male sheep?) are needed, hmm. Anyways. Also new sheep has born, 2 * female and 1 * male. Guess the sheep reproduction is much less than chickens, I wonder if its mostly the same for cows and pigs as well.

I am not bored waiting, don't mean that, but yeah the sheep reproduction pace is very slow compared to chickens, or perhaps my world view is somehow skewed, I mean hasn't it only been like 2 years of game-play after I got animals going, hmm or just one full year, hmm I cant recall.

I have to assume that once you have larger herd then these births get out of control so to speak, will be really interesting to see. But I am fully and greatly enjoying this enhanced animal system mod game-play

2025-09-29T10:43:11Z

Jul 1st, new chickens have hatched, 27 * female and 28 * male. Quite even mix, but still I'd prefer females as they breed in the future

New sheep has born, 3 * female and 3 * male.

At this moment I am not sure if males, rams, produce wool as that is the only thing they could do beside being sold for profit which sheep's wont get very much, they are cheap animals if I understood it correctly, horses, pigs and cattle are more the animals to sell for profit.

2025-09-29T14:22:00Z

Bought PMC Cow Barn 800 (my own config XML mod from giants cow barn), dumped TMR there, then came back to the farm yard and put straw bales alone into the Silo King TraileLine 1000+ 4535 mixing wagon until it was 44k liters full, then dumped that to the cow barn for straw bedding, then purchased 10 dairy cows, 10 angus cattle and two bulls

Also stamped manure heap next to the cow barn 800.


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[Snake Man]

2025-10-01T12:31:18Z

Another farming day is on, just purchased my PMC Pig Barn 2.7k head placeable and dumped first penta db50 load of 55k liters of sugar beets there.

Then hauled two penta db50 loads of barley, this is the grains part of pigs diet, now just missing base corn and protein canola. But at this point I could not wait any longer, I'm hasty and buying two boars and twenty female pigs

Purchased 10 landrace females (sow), 1 landrace male (boar), 10 berkshire females (sow), 1 berkshire male (boar), 10 black pied females (sow) and 1 black pied male (boar). Okay this is a good starter setup for hoggs

Then took siloking trailedline system 1000+ 4535 mixer wagon, telehandler loaded there 180cm round bales of straw, added few extra which just sunk into the mixer wagon, hopefully they didn't disappear, at least mixer wagon could be overloaded in my other savegame so I'm hoping to haul some extra straw with this load. Straw is used for pigs to produce manure, I already bought a manure heap at the backside of the pig barn building.

Cant wait for canola and corn harvest seasons to begin now so I can harvest some food for pigs

While contemplating do I go get some fertilizing contracts done for money or just continue time accelerating towards the next seasonal event, I loaded one more siloking trailedline system 1000+ 4535 mixer wagon full of straw, then overloaded it with at least four 180cm round bales of straw and dumped it to both pigs and cattle barns, man that was a big load, whoah!

And then did one more haul with fully laden siloking trailedline, now stats are for cows 156k liters (42%) straw and pigs 235k liters (53%) so these guys are good to go. I do feel a little bit bad for being so impatient with pigs as they now don't have base food and protein, but yeah well at least they wont completely die off on me while waiting for corn and canola harvest season to begin.

Made the decision not to do those multiple fertilizing contracts for money as that would take another multiple hours of my real life gaming day, I want some animal progress to this savegame, doing fertilizing contracts to increase my current 2 million dollars to who knows how many would not make a much difference, I want to see animal action not to buy more farmland or vehicles.

Aug 1st, new chickens have hatched, 4 * female and 4 * male. And new sheep's got born, 2 * male.

Also my canola is ready to harvest, only a single puny 0.84ha field, should have planted more last year but oh well, that is going for pig feed.

[Snake Man]

2025-10-02T10:16:36Z

New farming day is running, already yesterday I noticed that in FS22 Simple Inspector screen the animal "average health" percentage changes every top of the hour, so once I dropped sorghum into my pig barn which had animals at 0% average health, then on the next top of the hour it jumped to 10%, and on next 20% then 30% where it is at the time of writing this.

Been thinking about pig food. Base food is either corn or sorghum. The difference of yields on these crops are corn literPerSqm="0.92" and sorghum literPerSqm="0.82" so corn wins, but not much, like in comparison soybeans yield is HALF of what corn is. The difference between harvesting corn and sorghum is the header type, both are regular grains which can be hauled with normal trailers, auger pipes and stored in grain bin silos unlike potatoes or sugar beets. However some people might consider corn harvesting more of a nuisance as all corn headers eat less rows (width) than midwest durus 18.2m header for regular grain which sorghum is.

Corn is cool american crop, sure sorghum is harvested in parts as well but america is the famous corn and soybeans country.

So I think overall even though sorghum harvesting is kind of easier/faster with regular combine harvester grain headers, on my PMC operations the main pig food will be corn.

In-game aug 1st 2023hrs my pig barn had productivity: 1% because I bought initial set of pigs without having the full feed available for them, I had only sugar beets and barley, was missing corn/sorghum and canola/whatevertheotherwas. Now I added all food groups, average health went to 100% so next I'm going to be anxiously waiting to see when productivity increases, my best bet is that midnight, but how much will it change or does it just straight up skyrocket to 100% as everything is OK now, will be interesting to see.

Oh, never-mind, my own website explains it: farming-simulator.org/22/guide-animals-pigs seems like pigs have no productivity percentage at the in-game menus, it only shows up on simple inspector

[Snake Man]

2025-10-03T21:10:13Z

In-game sep 1st, new chickens hatched, 43 * female and 43 * male.

In-game oct 1st, new chickens hatched, 10 * female and 13 * male.

[Snake Man]

2025-10-07T19:31:39Z

In-game nov 1st, new chickens hatched, 27 * female and 35 * male.

This hatching makes my "Chicken Coop 1" building to host now 356 animals out of 360, so on the next hatching it will overcrowd to which I had setting turned on to allow it. Once next chickens hatch then I have to move some animals to a new chicken coop I'm going to buy, or simply start selling the roosters.

Roosters or chickens in general pay pretty much nothing, most of my flock goes for $1 each with highest paying females are $4 each. Highest paying rooster is $2. So yeah chickens while in real life they are raised for the meat and eggs, they definitely do not make any money in FS22.

New sheep's born, 1 * female. That's it, nothing else, one single lamb female (steinschaf)

New pigs born, 43 * piglet female (berkshire), 52 * piglet male (berkshire), 57 * piglet male (black pied), 47 * piglet female (black pied), 39 * piglet female (landrace) and 59 * piglet male (landrace).

Goodness gracious these pigs will breed like a wildfire!

That's females total of 129 and males 168, whoah

These guys jumped from hmm was it 33 to 330 in one birth batch, cant imagine how it will be once the full cycle gets going with full speed. Its just never ending factory line of breeding pigs, haha so cool!

I bet my pig 1 barn gets a big boost in food and straw usage and also output of manure and slurry. Wonder when my stockpile of manure and slurry will be that high that its worth to break out spreaders for the first fields fertilization.

Now pig 1 barn stats look like next offspring comes in 4 months, so its not actually fast paced action, its faster than cattle/cows that is 10 months which feels quite a long time, but as pigs breed this many at once batch, yeah it will be interesting times in years time or so

Was browsing in-game animals menu and spotted something odd, my cow 1 barn animal clusters have been broken up from 10 females per angus (cattle) and brown swiss (dairy), now they are female angus 1 with reproduction 20%, female angus 4 with reproduction 30%, female brown swiss 6 with reproduction 30%, female angus 5 with reproduction 40% and female brown swiss 4 with reproduction 40%. Whoah that is so awesome that this mod randomly separates each animal into different birth cycles so its not always the same original batch that gives birth at exact same time. So while FS22 animals are still in clusters, it could be cluster of one but still its a cluster (I guess, hah), enhanced animal system mod internally calculates stuff for individual animals, or at least randomly pick one or more from each cluster to be set into different reproduction cycle, very very cool, I really like this mod what it does to FS22 animals

Actually that pig breeding is out of control or at least it will be within few birth cycles, my 10 females on each breed all gave over 40 offspring except that one batch of 39 landrace females but even that is a hefty number of almost forty, its no joke when 10 female pigs breed that much in one go, just imagine how my farm looks like when I got like 2000 head herd going on

Cant wait to see what the food and straw requirements and manure and slurry outputs are

Will my farm become a nightmare to manage when you have to be tending animals pretty much well hmm dare I suspect every day, I highly doubt with my animal food/straw etc capacities, but definitely you cant go time accelerating more than few days when these herds grow to hundreds and eventually thousands

I would definitely like to experience and document that, would be one for the history books for me personally.

I've heard some folks talk about in the community that they had 10,000 head of animals, but what I recall from those they were more like plans, I have not seen any videos or live streams of animal barns with total of 10,000 head herd going on. Hey, maybe I could document that in this savegame, at least so far the plan is heading towards that direction

Anyways, I like enhanced animal system mod and I'm very excited about this savegame even though its temporary throw-away type

More time accelerating, lets see what happens in the coming months

In-game nov 1st 1208hrs, I can now see the new piglets 3d models/textures in broad day light, they look great, they also have custom sounds as expected.

Its truly shame though that farmsim games have 25 animal 3d model limitation, now my Pig 1 barn changed from bunch of adult pigs to mostly piglets, I see only two boars and one berkshire female, rest are piglets. I mean it is what it is, but yeah this definitely sucks. I wonder if there is any scripting method to break through the animal limit barrier. On the other hand, this giants pig barn area is not really suitable for huge amount of animals, so I would like to have more than 25 but trying to put lets say even 250 into this placeable building would not really work, so I understand the limit in that sense.

2025-10-07T20:51:50Z

Sold all roosters from Chicken Coop 1, even the chick just born ones, I mean all they do is eat food and that's it, cruel thing to say but in FS22 roosters are useless filler, they have no value, well I mean the sold value but as said its like $1 or $2 max, so "whohoo" for that payday. Not sure if in real life one chicken cost for butcher shops is a dollar, at least when I buy prepared chicken breast meat from the super market its more expensive than groundbeef, actually its twice as expensive, so I always wondered, are chickens around the world that much more valued than cattle and pigs, hmm no idea, might be worth to do some research on that considering I am eating almost every day some groundbeef and have recently left out chicken meat because its so expensive it almost feels like an luxury food type. Anyways point being, in this savegame roosters just consume food for no benefit at all, they must be let go, adios amigos.

Chicken Coop 1 animal count now 203 / 360.

[Snake Man]

2025-10-08T17:49:04Z

Its in-game dec 1st, a lot of animal upkeep was charged at midnight on months change, its the more animals I got, interesting though is those payments per animal cluster or, hmm those notifications might become quite excessive once you have thousands and thousands of animals with multiple clusters, assuming the payments are for clusters.

New chickens hatched, 35 * female and 37 * male.

I proceeded to sell off all the males, chicken coop 1 animal status now 238 / 360, lets keep it tight, only chicks allowed in PMC coop's

New sheep's born, 1 * lamb female (steinschaf), 1 * lamb female (mountain), 1 * lamb female (welsh) and 1 * ram male (mountain).

Winter months have begun now, in the farm nothing happening on the fields during dec, jan and feb, that is 3 * 9 == 27 in-game days to time accelerate through while feeding your animals and keeping an eye on production chains input/output materials. Yes there are cultivating and plowing contracts, a lot of them actually, available during these months and you could fertilizer your own fields too, but yeah these are the dead months in farming, just have to hope you were smart enough to stockpile enough animal feed during the summer months so you can now just coast through the winter months.

Currently I have plenty of round bales of grass, hay, straw and silage, then corn and well soybeans could be used for pigs but its way too expensive crop to feed to animals, its for selling, on jun I am going to make a lot of coin and then buy more farmland. Chicken feed, no wheat, barley or sorghum, I made a big poo-poo on that one, my bad, currently the feed status is just about 50% capacity so it might be enough through the winter, but still I highly doubt its enough until jun when barley harvest season begins and then my chicken and production chains input worries are over.

Winter months with farmsim animals always feels like you rolled the dice, they are in the air and then time just slows down to a hollywood movie alike dramatic slow motion, you are no longer in control and can only watch and wait what happens, in slow motion (9 day seasons config)

If my chicken coop 1 runs out of feed, then I simply have to buy pallets of it, I now only have 39.6k budget so that might run out very quickly, I have quite a pile of 150cm round bales of silage which I could sell quickly as they have been placed right next to the animal dealer, so I can get at least some emergency food money.

Overall I'm confident that this winter goes by without issues, interesting to see how it turns out

In-game jan 1st, new chickens hatched, 26 * female and 34 * male.

Sold off all the male chickens, roosters, no need for those. Not sure if there is any benefit for waiting for them to grow so you could possibly sell them at $2 each, I mean... its peanuts, means nothing to me when farm budget runs in the several millions, I'm already paying daily maintenance property whatever fees well over $100 close to $150, so selling few roosters with two bucks each is meaningless.

Chicken animal count now 264 / 360.

New sheep's have born, 1 * ram male (mountain). Nothing else, just one animal.

In-game jan 5th, 0805hrs, chicken coop 1 feed status show now only 3% left, guess its time to send an tractor with trailer over to the dealership so some chicken feed can be bought and dumped into the building. Hmm actually I might be able to dump directly from the pallet using telehandler which I have two on the location, perfect.

Chicken Coop 1 building has now 320 liters of grain left, getting pretty low indeed. Purchased multiple big bags of wheat (chicken feed), carried them over to the chicken coop 1 building and refilled, easy. Got feed status to 92%, its good enough for now, should last a while again.

In-game feb 1st, new chickens have hatched, 38 * female and 41 * male.

As usual I sold off all males, animal count now 302 / 360. Soon I have to start thinking about purchasing second Chicken Coop

New sheep's have born, 2 * ram male (mountain), 1 * lamb female (mountain), 1 * lamb female (bentheim), 2 * ram male (welsh), 3 * ram male (steinschaf), 1 * lamb female (steinschaf) and 1 * ram male (bentheim).

Sheep's animal count now 48 / 65.

On other news in Pig 1 barn the piglets have grown to larger 3d model/texture, looking good, at in-game animal menu they are listed as Porker.

Cow 1 barn has 155k liters of manure and 200k liters of slurry, that stock pile is growing nicely. Pigs however have very modest amounts, 48.8k liters of manure and 63.3k liters of slurry. I find this a bit odd, but hmm guess pigs are smaller animals than cattle/cows so that is one reason, but I have over THREE HUNDRED pigs, you would think that they catch up with cattle/cows, guess not. I am sure that with these breeding rates my pig operation soon overtakes cattle/cows, but still, I find it interesting how slowly pigs accumulate crap.

In-game mar 1st, new spring planting season has finally begun, also new animals have been born, this is exciting!

New chickens have hatched, 69 * female and 62 * male.

As usual sold the males off, I have no use for them. Now animal count is 371 / 360 which is overcrowding, now I need to buy another chicken coop, well this just got interesting

But first things first...

New pigs have been born, 25 * piglet female (black pied), 24 * piglet female (landrace), 19 * piglet male (landrace), 32 * piglet male (berkshire), 31 * piglet male (black pied) and 22 * piglet female (berkshire).

Whoah that was another nice batch of pigs, not as big as the first but yeah I still love the amounts they breed, very nice

2025-10-09T00:35:47Z

Purchased PMC Chicken Barn 3.6k mod version of the giants chicken coop (yeah I named it wrong, barn instead of coop, ok will fix lateron). Named it Chicken Coop 2. Then purchased 32k liters of chicken feed, loaded it into penta db50 trailer and dumped into Chicken Coop 2, now its ready to receive animals

Then moved 241 chicken females from Chicken Coop 1 to 2, okay now the new coop is all setup and ready to begin operations, there is now plenty of free breeding space, 241 out of 3600 chicken places used

2025-10-09T09:17:01Z

Last night didn't write it down as I was dead tired after a long gaming day, but in the last quarter of my day I took some used vehicle sales bought manure spreader cant remember its name now, hooked it up with fendt 1050 vario, picked up 45k liters of manure from cattle/cow barn and went to fertilize my very first field like this in this savegame, was very nice feeling to get it done with product from your animals. My spraytypes edits for PMC Undefined Farms 20km also make it enjoyable to spread manure, it didn't run out after 5min which was great.

Also I remember Cow 1 barn starting to run low on feed, but I took siloking trailedline system 1000+ 4535 mixer wagon, dumped two loads of 180cm straw round bales to it and then into Cow 1 barn for bedding, there is now well over 200k liters of straw when I signed off last night.

This were looking good on the farm, cant wait to begin a new farming day today. Its spring season, baby!

[Snake Man]

2025-10-09T18:18:54Z

Its in-game apr 1st, things are happening in the farm.

New chickens hatched on chicken coop 1, they are 26 * female and 24 * male.

New chickens hatched on chicken coop 2, they are 8 * female and 10 * male.

New pigs born on pig 1, they are 17 * piglet male (black pied), 22 * piglet female (berkshire), 11 * piglet male (berkshire), 27 * piglet female (landrace), 11 * piglet female (black pied) and 30 * piglet male (landrace).

Chicken Coop 1 animal count 180 / 360, chicken coop 2 animal count 259 / 3600 and pig 1 animal count 601 / 2700. Herd is growing

Looking at the animal menu, two cow clusters are reproduction 90% so I assume that in next month there will be first cattle/cow births, cant wait to see that

[Snake Man]

2025-10-12T01:26:01Z

In-game may 1st, a big day in the farm, new month and all animal coops/barns got births

New chickens hatched in chicken coop 1, they are 28 * female and 25 * male.

New sheep has born, only one single lamb female (steinschaf).

New chickens hatched in chicken coop 2, they are 65 * female and 55 * male.

New pigs have been born in pig 1 barn, they are 7 * piglet female (berkshire), 6 * piglet female (black pied), 3 * piglet male (black pied) and 11 * piglet male (berkshire).

New cattle/cows have been born in cow 1 barn, they are 1 * calf male (brown swiss), 3 * calf female (brown swiss) and 5 * calf male (angus).

I am quite surprised by the low births on pigs, I mean sure it was okay batch of 27, but got to remember that the very first batch was each cluster giving minimum of 40 offspring. But guess its the randomness so its not always the same, which is good. Who knows maybe next time it will be a really big batch again

In-game morning at first light went to see the cattle/cow calf's, they looked nice. Pretty good.

2025-10-12T02:47:20Z

In-game jun 1st, new animals has hatched/born again.

Chicken coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 17 * female and 18 * male.

New sheep has born, 1 * lamb female (steinschaf), 1 * young ram male (steinschaf) and 2 * young ram male (welsh).

Chicken coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 39 * female and 44 * male.

New cattle/cows have been born in cow 1 barn, they are 2 * calf female (brown swiss), 2 * calf female (angus), 4 * calf male (brown swiss) and 2 * calf male (angus).

[Snake Man]

2025-10-16T01:55:21Z

Since last update I bought Sheep 2 barn, where I moved all the young animals from Sheep 1 barn. Also this savegame is growing, hmm yesterday I finished three real life days of barley harvesting, got 5.6 million liters left in grain bin now after stocking chickens and seed factory, so yeah that was quite big harvest, it lasted two in-game days, you could say that I had my barley harvest quota filled on those three days of gaming

As I'm typing this I'm about to start around the same hectare amount of canola harvest. Once that is done, then I have animal feed and production chains resource material for years to come

Actually hope is that after this canola harvest my time spent doing field work and preparing for animal feeding slows down a lot, I mean the only thing that I don't have that much right now is grass, hay (especially hay) and silage.

By that I don't mean that I have little of it, time saving stock check states I got 3.316 million liters of silage, 872k liters of grass, 666k (hoho) liters of hay, 3.010 million liters of straw but there is just unbelievable amount of loose straw on those harvested barley fields waiting for baling or collecting, not sure where would I even store all of it. So sheep's are not going to run out of food and I have so little cattle/dairy-cows right now that they will eat for few years from that stockpile. I'm pretty good on feed.

So hopefully after this canola harvest I can focus on time accelerating and growing my animal herds

Its in-game jul 1st, new animals on the farm.

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 30 * female and 27 * male.

Sold the males right away again (actually I forgot to sell previously, found many roosters in the coop).

Sheep 1 barn has new sheep's born, they are 2 * lamb female (steinschaf), 1 * lamb female (bentheim), 2 * young ram male (mountain), 1 * young ram male (welsh) and 2 * young ram male (bentheim).

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 56 * female and 59 * male.

Again sold off the males, no need for those.

Pig 1 barn had new piglets born, they are 12 * piglet female (landrace), 10 * piglet male (landrace), 18 * piglet female (black pied), 14 * piglet male (black pied), 4 * piglet female (berkshire) and 14 * piglet male (berkshire).

Cow 1 barn had new calf born, literally, he is 1 * calf male (angus).

Its interesting how that very first birth cycle was massive for pigs but now its slowed down a lot, yeah chickens still breed left and right and sure I guess I cant complain about amount of new pigs got born this month but still, its far cry from the first batch which was the famous over 40 births per brand.

Animal counts updated as well:

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Chicken Coop 1: 231 / 360
Chicken Coop 2: 409 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 700 / 2700
Sheep 1: 44 / 65
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

New births expected next month for chicken coop 2, pig 1 barn, sheep 1 barn and chicken coop 1. Until then.

[Snake Man]

2025-10-16T17:19:48Z

Was considering changing "seasons" day config from 9 to 3 or even 2, but decided against it because currently I have a lot of corn and soybeans growing, so once canola harvest is done then its time accelerating until oct when corn/soybeans harvest season begins, once that is done, well then I have to re-think if I want to decrease seasons config days to speed up months time accelerating for the optimal animal growth monitoring. Its so painful to get through 9 in-game days with only 1000 speed time accelerating.

2025-10-17T06:39:40Z

Its now in-game jul 2nd 0528hrs and I just finished that big canola harvest. But to my horror I spotted two more fields other side of the farm yard F1455 E, yikes, okay more canola coming when they are ready to harvest as they got seeded later, they are still growing in 8/8 growth stage.

Farm yard 3 F1299 grain bin now has 2.701 million liters of canola, goodness gracious, that is boatload of canola for my pigs

Got to admit, feel a bit exhausted on that barley and now canola harvest, but I still have corn and soybeans coming, oh my that is going to be a nightmare harvest again, I have no idea how many hectares it is but probably would no go badly wrong by guesstimating that at least elmcreek size chunk of farmland. Actually I should be able to see farmland hectares at least, it doesn't mean its that much actual fields but still.

Oh yes, farmland 240 is mixed corn and soybeans, as straight up farmland its 291.61ha, farmland ID 236 is the same and its 169.38ha, then finally there is farmland ID 244 which is 326.89ha geez louise! Hahah I didn't even realize its that much land hectare wise

Sure as said its not all fields, there are roads and curved field edges which eat a little bit of that hectare space, but still, oh wow, that is bunch of hectares to harvest on in-game october

Anyways.

I should restrict this savegame to animal tending only, that soybeans is planted for money so I can buy more farmland but for animals I definitely don't need any more farmland I already have a mountain of sugar beets, 5.689 million liters of barley and now this canola, that keeps pigs fed and happy for a long long time.

My point is that I'm almost playing this savegame as regular savegame instead of enhanced animal system testing savegame which it was meant to be once I added that mod. I'll try to keep focus on animal care now, not do any of the other "useless money making" stuff

[Snake Man]

2025-10-18T21:55:51Z

Its in-game aug 1st, new animals have hatched/born.

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 26 * female and 25 * male.

As usual I sold off the males right away.

Sheep 1 barn new sheep's born, they are 2 * lamb female (welsh), 2 * lamb female (mountain), 4 * young ram male (steinschaf), 4 * young ram male (welsh), 2 * lamb female (steinschaf), 1 * lamb female (bentheim) and 3 * young ram male (mountain).

Hmm that batch was pretty good for sheep's, right?

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 89 * female and 70 * male.

Again, sold off the roosters

Pig 1 barn new piglets were born, they are 16 * piglet female (black pied), 12 * piglet male (landrace), 17 * piglet male (black pied), 25 * piglet female (landrace), 19 * piglet female (berkshire) and 15 * piglet male (berkshire).

Was just thinking that with chickens the roosters have to be sold off immediately as they are completely useless, they don't lay eggs, they don't breed and they have very little almost none existent selling value, all they do is eat food for no reason. If my chicken coop placeable config would have a manure support, then chickens would produce manure, that might be the only saving grace for roosters but as of now, they are gone. Its not the same for pigs, while male boars are not breeding, they get a very profitable selling value, so they are valuable to keep and raise to good selling value age.

I'm not sure do humans across the globe eat more chicken or pig, it might be combined meat effort with cattle and pigs, the "B grade" greasy groundbeef/mincebeef is done from cattle and pigs while the "A grade" low fat is done from cattle only, so its not exactly the same comparison I guess, not sure. Anyways would be a fun fact to know for real life stuff I guess.

This pig batch was not that large either, but I am happy with it, pretty OK batch overall. Who knows maybe the first batch was a fluke or some starter game easy-thing like at least in FS19 Seasons on the first year you don't get that much crop damage and weeds I believe but on second year the so called normal damage/weeds values kick in and you start to see ugly nasty looking fields as result. Maybe in FS22 animals its the same, who knows, feel free to reply if you have knowledge.

All in all, a good month of births.

New animal count stats are as follows:

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Chicken Coop 1: 257 / 360
Chicken Coop 2: 498 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 804 / 2700
Sheep 1: 62 / 65
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

Looks like on the next sheep 1 barn birth cycle I have to move animals into sheep 2 barn as it gets full, overcrowded.

2025-10-19T02:43:28Z

In-game sep 1st, that midnight 0001hrs notifications queue about animal upkeep is getting pretty long, there are several "pages" of those notifications queued and you have to wait a quite while before they are done. First world problems I guess with so many animals, I think one upkeep notification is for one cluster, not sure.

New animals have hatched and born. Oh boy, this is a big one, I can already see from Production Inspector display

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 42 * female and 54 * male.

Went and sold off those males.

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 50 * female and 53 * male.

Sold off males.

Pig 1 barn had new piglets born, they are 242 * piglet male (black pied), 216 * piglet female (landrace), 229 * piglet male (landrace), 233 * piglet female (berkshire), 250 * piglet female (black pied) and 223 * piglet male (berkshire).

Yes all those numbers are correct, just absolutely crazy amounts of birth on this cycle. Now that is... not good. How can there be such an huge difference between previous birth numbers and this time, these numbers look like someone artificially just incremented them by two hundred, I mean numbers of 42, 16, 29, 33, 50 and 23 would have looked pretty much like they have looked for months in-game. So I am kind of not buying that, it feels fake, something is off. Not that I'm suspecting a bug or anything in the enhanced animal system mod, but just something has to be off.

Also if single one or few of those numbers would have been huge, it could have been because the mother cluster was large and just by happy accident got maxed out births, but ALL of them at the same time have 2xx numbers, yep smells fishy to me.

If anyone knows more details about this, why there would be such a big difference on these birth numbers, please reply and let me know.

But hey, I'll take them. Its crazy that Pig 1 barn animal count skyrocketed to over two thousand animals in one batch, I mean with this kind of random chance, I probably have to buy second pig barn on next time there are births (of this much).

Hmm wait a minute... I did some digging on Pig 1 barn animal stats. I found 43 * sow female (berkshire) which "months since last birth" was zero, so this bitch (no pun intended) batch gave birth just now, well OK now it starts to make a bit more sense, 43 pigs gave birth all at the same time, so no wonder there is over two hundred piglets running around. Another months since last birth zero was 4 * sow female (landrace), same for (berkshire), 47 * sow female (black pied), 39 * sow female (landrace) and 3 * sow female (black pied). OK so yeah guess when your mothers (sow) numbers are that high and then all give birth to multiple piglets, well yeah... that explains it.

So looks like now first of the "grandchildren" has been born, these piglets that I got in the 200's numbers now are from the babies that previously got born in Pig 1 barn. Right? I'm on the right track with that assessment(?). It must be, makes sense to me.

Just imagine once these sow clusters grow in size and get a good random number generation for the piglets being born, oh man those pig animal counts grow like crazy, I need to buy new barns every few months through the year

Great stuff, I love it

Now... well NOW its probably going to skyrocket pig manure and slurry production and feed consumption. I cant wait to see how this plays out

New animal count stats are as follows:

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Chicken Coop 1: 299 / 360
Chicken Coop 2: 548 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 2197 / 2700
Sheep 1: 62 / 65
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

I still cant believe that pig 1 barn animal growth, its like exponential, pigs breed at insane rate, whoah

Soon animal tending is a full time job when pig part of the animal farm grows like this. Should be able to start selling some of them at some point, need to figure out what is the optimum age to sell them off. I am in no hurry to sell anything, especially females which breed, boars, bulls and rams yes, but not females which generate offspring.

As I said many days ago, I love enhanced animal system mod, it is so awesome for FS22 animal farming

2025-10-19T05:03:04Z

In-game oct 1st, new animals hatched/born.

Chicken Coop 1 is now overcrowded, new chickens hatched, they are 67 * female and 59 * male.

Sold off the males and its still overcrowded by 6 chickens. Then moved bunch of chickens from coop 1 to coop 2, now they are a bit more balanced.

Sheep 1 barn had new sheep born, just 1 * young ram male (steinschaf).

Uh oh dunno if I made a mistake moving those chickens before taking full birth statistics, I think I now moved some 0 month old ones listed above in the 67 females, hmm

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, unless these are dupes from above, hmm hmm, they are 51 * male and 121 * female, which leads me to believe that this 151 number includes the 67 from coop 1, hmm yup.

OK lesson learned, next time... take the stats first, then do any animal moving or selling

Sold 51 male chickens from Chicken Coop 2.

New animal count stats are as follows:

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Chicken Coop 1: 156 / 360
Chicken Coop 2: 812 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 2197 / 2700
Sheep 1: 63 / 65
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

Next up is large (relatively speaking, to my current farm) corn and soybeans harvest, I assume it will be bare minimum of "a few" real life gaming days before this is gets completed, so animal stuff is on hold. Animals are all fed and they have plenty of bedding, they are good to go for duration of corn and soybeans harvest

[Snake Man]

2025-10-21T21:40:32Z

Just moments ago finished this in-game years corn harvest (years played: 3). Just now last wilson pacesetter dumped its corn load into farm yard F1299 grain bin, I now have 4.265 million liters of corn in that grain bin, then on FY-1 (farm yard one) Bin 3608 450k liters and in FY-1 Bin 3609 1.091 million liters, oh my!

Corn harvest is complete, this included field numbers: 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327, 1328, 1338, 1339, 1340, 1341, 1342, 1343, 1344, 1345, 1346, 1347, 1348 and 1449.

My fingers got sore even typing those numbers in, imagine how much FS22 Courseplay and FS22 AutoDrive work it took to setup all those harvest tasks and then babysit FS22 AutoDrive grain cart AI drivers that when they mess up you get to untangle and clean up the mess

This took me two real life gaming days, not full days obviously as today has just started but just saying that technically it was all day yesterday 17hrs and today just got started with 1.5 fields done harvesting that finished the whole corn harvest.

But man I feel good now that corn has been harvested.

There is still the soybeans harvest left, however. This is 20 fields total, few of them are somewhat large, so my harvest season is not over yet

Luckily soybeans can be harvested with midwest durus 18.2m wide headers and its the best but lowest yielding crop in the game (best price, lowest yield in that relation, cant remember it might actually be lowest yielding crop, period).

But yes that will take me all day today, hmm I might want to set a goal, try to get that harvest finished today in my 17hrs gaming session. So better stop this dumb text writing and get to it, those "beans" wont cut themselves

2025-10-21T22:51:57Z

Soybeans harvest just started from the east end at F1313. Now lets see how long this one takes

[Snake Man]

2025-10-22T03:17:37Z

In-game oct 2nd 1842hrs, night has fallen, its dark. Next up time accelerating 1000 speed to morning daybreak so can have some soybeans harvesting light again. I now finished harvesting 5 fields, still 15 to go.

2025-10-23T07:35:53Z

Just finished soybeans harvest, its now in-game oct 4th 1611hrs. I'm feeling great sense of accomplishment when this relatively speaking (to this savegame) large corn and soybeans harvest season is complete

Now my FY-3 NL16-22 Bin got 3.714 million liters of soybeans and 4.155 million liters of corn

Animals will be fed with that corn for a long time and I am going to have so much fun selling off soybeans june next year

2025-10-23T09:28:57Z

Its in-game nov 1st, new animals have hatched and born.

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 37 * female and 38 * male.

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 129 * female and 155 * male.

Pig 1 barn had new piglets born, they are 11 * piglet male (black pied), 3 * piglet female (berkshire), 7 * piglet female (black pied) and 9 * piglet male (berkshire).

Also my sugar beet fields 1466, 1477 and 1476 are ready to harvest, ugh

Then went to sell off all male chickens, as usual.

New animal counts:

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Chicken Coop 1: 193 / 3600
Chicken Coop 2: 941 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 2227 / 2700
Sheep 1: 63 / 650
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

Oh right I also edited placeables.xml to change giants chicken coop large and sheep barn large to PMC ten multiplied config mod coop/barn, it was transparent change, no cheating involved as its the same cost and just makes no sense to empty, sell the previous building before buying same identical size and shape right back.

Now sugar beets are ready to harvest, I really REALLY don't want to do it now, sugar beet harvesting is cool but as said previously I have a huge mountain of sugar beets dumped into back of farm yard one at F1455 E, there is no way I would run out of "beets" in the next few YEARS, and now just more coming. I do have two new used vehicle sales bought ropa tiger 6S or 6 XL whatever its called officially, but they are missing headers and currently my budget is -4.9k

Trying to decide whether to start that harvest or just chill rest of the day, hmph

Aww maan, I still got over TEN hours left in my day, that is too long time to waste, I need to keep farming. Lets see if I could get through this sugar beet harvest, maybe I could have some fun with beet carts and have semi-truck krampe trailers haul the beets to the dump site, its always fun to dump those trailers to make the massive mountain even larger the most optimized way so it keeps compact. Lets see, at least I want to try harvesting the first field.

BTW Pig 1 barn, its capacity is getting dangerously close to being full, sure its still 473 animals short of full, but if there are any birth batches like the previous one, then its one zap and the barn is full. At that time I should have another pig barn bought, laden with pigfood and be ready to go for animal transfer, I don't know how many hours the overcrowding allows before animals start to get "damage", I'd like to think its a quite while but dunno. So now hmm yeah well I'm not interested of doing contracts for the pig barn cost either today.

Dunno perhaps my day is at the end here, I'll try to get that sugar beet harvest going but then its calling it a night for sure.

Its been a good day so far, finished soybeans harvest and new animals got born/hatch, cant complain

[Snake Man]

2025-10-24T14:04:04Z

Just finished sugar beet harvest, the farm yard 1 F1455 E sugar beet mountain is now just absolutely sickening size, I am afraid to even imagine how many tens of millions liters of sugar beets are there

Feels good to have that one last harvest job done. Now there is nothing but time accelerating and seeing my animals grow, and of course feeding animals, plus small other farm tasks like selling my huge silage bale rows by the dealership and next year sell soybeans for big boy money.

Its going to be interesting times when there are no field work to do, just time accelerating, in fact the next thing I'm going to do is to switch over to 1 day seasons config for that nice and fast yearly cycle. Hopefully it doesn't cause any issues with animals and production chains, it shouldn't but hey you never know, what I recall FS19 Seasons mod weather doesn't work properly with less than 9 day seasons config.

But this concludes today's farming session for me, now its just chilling before returning to FS22 again tomorrow when the real animal growth and discoveries begin, I cant wait, until then...

[Snake Man]

2025-10-25T01:01:27Z

My weekend has begun, short while ago booted up Farming Simulator 22 (FS22), its in-game nov 1st 1841hrs at the time of writing this, its dark and my Fendt 1050 Vario with Bergmann Shuttle 490 S loading wagon is collecting straw from those harvested barley fields I did several real life gaming days and in-game months ago. Just to fill up Cow 1 and Pig 1 barn before massive time accelerating through months/years begins

Animal feed has been stocked, I have a mountain of sugar beets by farm yard 1 and farm yard 3 grain bin is 97% full of corn, canola, barley and soybeans.

I am good to go.

It will be so exciting to start time accelerating with 1 day seasons config to get through months quickly in real life gaming minutes, to see my animal herd grow and eat etc

Next year june will have to sell soybeans grain off for money, to buy more farmland, not that I have any intention to work the ground even on the existing fields, but still you gotta grow the farm

Will be great, cant wait to write about first animal births on this gaming session.

2025-10-25T06:35:09Z

Had to take a quick break from time accelerating because the dealership had a used vehicle sales for bourgault 71300 air cart which I was missing, so had to do some contracts to get the money. I chose to do silage baling contracts, did two small fields and one medium to large-ish size (for silage baling), got the money and bought the air cart. Now its back to time accelerating without breaks, I am not going to stop time accelerating no matter what I see in the used vehicle sales, in fact I shouldn't even be looking at it but I still like to keep tabs on it.

For example at the time of writing this in-game nov 4th 1311hrs there is bourgault 3420-100 paralink hoe drill for -45% off, I could really use third air drill (big one), but yeah no, I am not going to go into the hamster wheel of doing contracts with fire under my feet every time there is something nice on sale.

Nope, now its just FS22 Enhanced Animal System studying, growing animals, feeding them and collecting produce, manure, slurry, eggs, wool, honey and milk. I will not spend any gaming minute to anything else than enhanced animal system mod studying, I've done my part on contracts etc in this savegame.

I said many posts and real life gaming days ago that only thing where I might need to do some work is grass, I got enough for sheep's but silage and hay bales are needed for total mixed ration, I would say hay is my lowest quantity commodity right now. But I also recall that it was still hundreds of thousands of liters so who knows how long that lasts. As for TMR mix, you could shuffle more silage in the hay's place to get the mix right, so that might conserve some of my hay stores.

As for manure and slurry, right now Cow 1 barn has 212.6k liters of slurry and 155.8k liters of manure. Pig 1 barn has 701k liters of slurry and 346.6k liters of manure.

Oh wow didn't even realize pigs got so much "production"

Hmm, I might have to build slurry tank farm soon as pigs will piss all over the place that much, that is very valuable product in my farm now as I want to fertilize my fields next time with animal products instead of bought chemical fertilizer.

Just a wild guess... but soon, after few months time accelerating, birth cycles for pigs, I don't think my manure/slurry capacity can receive all whats coming from pigs, and me moving that stuff to tank farm storage should be more or less efficient with semi-truck pulled liquid tanker trailer, but manure... hmm manure spreaders can pick it up "by magic" from the manure heap, but if I want to move it around to other storage as this one runs out of space, well currently I only know method of wheel loader with dump bucket or some belt transfer system (which is super slow). This might become real interesting once more animals born and they grow in size. I've heard stories that cattle/dairy-cows eat a lot so I assume they also produce a lot, in fact my 40 cattle/cows were leading the produce sector by far before these pigs bred out of control. Edit 2025-10-25T13:34:19Z, actually krampe sks 30/1050 trailer with its 59k liter capacity can also just "refill" from the manure heap placeable object.

Speaking of pigs, currently Pig 1 barn capacity is 2227 / 2700, so still a few hundred room left, but once that is full and especially if there is a huge batch of piglets born, then I have to buy second pig barn, that is another problem because I don't have money for it, I need to do some contracts, or if its after june soybeans selling day next year, then I can buy the barn. In fact I plan on buying it after soybeans grain has been sold off. I'm kind of thinking of doing the same for cattle/dairy-cows, or perhaps separate the two that one barn is for cattle and other for dairy cows, not that it makes much difference in-game but still. Dunno, that is luckily still far in the future in-game wise.

Anyhow, back to time accelerating, there is more pigs being born on dec 1st so wanna get to there quick

One more thing about Pig 1 slurry tank capacity, its now 701k / 1.282 million liters, so more than 50% full already. Manure heap is the default giants which holds 4 million liters so there is plenty of capacity.

2025-10-25T07:18:06Z

Changed seasons config to 1 day, saved game and restarted FS22. Calendar now shows I'm in "Nov", so apparently the change took affect right away, oh nice

Now have to be super careful with time accelerating that animal feeding, produce and production chains wont get out of hand, this is not 9 day seasons anymore...

I was just about to continue time accelerating, noticed that you can actually see production chains data values changing every few seconds now in Production Inspector display, the seasons config change is that dramatic between 9 and 1 days. Things just got hectic, whoah.

2025-10-25T07:54:38Z

Its now in-game dec 1st, winter season has begun or well dunno I think november could already be considered winter in some parts of the globe hah. Anyways. Now I am seeing the effects of 1 day season config, my Grain Mill Extended is just about full of flour, outside the pallets are full and the small indoor storage is 94% full. OK first thing now is to clear out pallets from grain mill then, gotcha.

Cow 1 straw: 353.7k liters, slurry: 261.5k liters and manure: 196.9k liters.

Pig 1 straw: 336.7k liters, slurry: 831.6k liters and manure: 474.1k liters. Oh my.

Yeap, that slurry capacity is running out real soon on Pig 1 barn

I have all the fields ready for fertilizer so all I would need to do is to break out slurry distributors/spreaders, but as said this savegame is now into hardcore time acceleration mode where I'm just interested of growing my animal herd

If I were to buy liquid manure tank, that would help a lot for starters, hmm.

New animals have hatched and born, lets see what I got this time.

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 64 * female and 87 * male.

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 73 * female and 56 * male.

Sheep 1 new sheep's have born, they are 2 * young ram male (mountain), 5 * lamb female (steinschaf), 2 * young ram male (steinschaf), 2 * young ram male (bentheim) and 1 * lamb female (mountain).

Pig 1 new piglets have born, they are 22 * piglet female (landrace), 19 * piglet male (landrace), 12 * piglet female (black pied), 16 * piglet male (black pied), 13 * piglet male (berkshire) and 14 * piglet female (berkshire).

Then as usual, went and sold chicken males, no need for those.

New animal count stats:

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Chicken Coop 1: 257 / 3600
Chicken Coop 2: 1014 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 2323 / 2700
Sheep 1: 75 / 650
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

Its funny but I consider myself lucky that no more pigs born in this batch, I would actually just have enough money for second pig barn but dunno I have no idea where to even put it as it doesn't fit to farm yard 3 anymore where Pig 1 barn is located. Been thinking that maybe I could take the field outside and around farm yard 3 and use it as animal placeable area, but not sure if its smooth enough or can be landscaped such, if its too badly elevated then landscaping just ruins the whole neighborhood.

If I need to separate more animal barns into some other area, like several kilometers away, well then I feel like everything breaks down. Hauling bales, grain, sugar beets and products would be really painful, then this would become a logistics simulator

Will have to see when that Pig 1 barn gets full, then its time to make a decision.

Hey who knows, maybe by that time I'm ready to move on to official Start From Zero savegames already

In-game dec 1725hrs when time accelerating from noon to eighteen hundred hours I could see Pig 1 food levels dropping one percent every hour, oh wow that is some serious feeding. Right now base food is 2% so its time to haul some corn for the pigs, no problem, krampe sks 30/1050 trailer is standing by, lets fire up the semi-truck

In-game dec 2123hrs finished selling off all my silage 150cm round bales that were leftovers from baling contracts (these are different from my own field grass mowed and baled silage), money went from few hundred thousand to 2.820 million, oh wow nice. Now I have good budget to buy animal placeables, meaning pig barn as its only matter of time before they breed overcrowding that Pig 1 barn.

In-game jan 0012hrs, new animals have hatched and born.

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 57 * female and 42 * male.

Sheep 1 barn new sheep's have born, they are 2 * lamb female (mountain), 1 * lamb female (welsh), 1 * lamb female (steinschaf), 4 * young ram male (mountain), 3 * young ram male (welsh) and 1 * young ram male (bentheim).

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 189 * female and 182 * male.

Pig 1 barn new piglets have born, they are 198 * piglet male (landrace), 212 * piglet female (black pied), 257 * piglet male (berkshire), 221 * piglet male (black pied), 241 * piglet female (berkshire) and 217 * piglet female (landrace).

Whoah what a wild birth batch for pigs, they went from 2323 to 3669 overcrowding the barn in one go, oh my!

As usual sold the male chickens off. Okay now I have to make decision, where do I place my second pig barn, as said it doesn't fit into farm yard 3 anymore, well I mean yes technically it would but I don't want to put it on the middle of the yard forcing me to delete existing FS22 AutoDrive network waypoint routes and record new ones, of course I rather do that than starting to haul food and pickup products from kilometers away, I'm not interested in such logistics "mini-game". Hmm.

Cow 1 straw: 331.9k liters, slurry: 306.2k liters and manure: 234.2k liters.

Pig 1 straw: 232.3k liters, slurry: 1.020m liters and manure: 611k liters.

One million liters of slurry from Pig 1 barn, yikes

New animal count stats:

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Chicken Coop 1: 314 / 3600
Chicken Coop 2: 1203 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 3669 / 2700
Sheep 1: 87 / 650
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

That Pig 1 count is just wild, uh oh

Now buying the new pig barn, its midnight, dark, cant see jack manure, hmm I hope time accelerating to daybreak wont kick in the animal "damage" or whatever its called because overcrowding. This is now 1 day seasons config so time accelerating from 0032hrs to lets say 0700hrs might be a big deal for enhanced animal system, hmm hmm. But hey, what can I do, I need daylight, have to time accelerate to daybreak.

In-game jan 0721hrs, checked all pig clusters and they are all 100% health, okay good, that time accelerating "within a month" didn't cause any damage. Hmm maybe the damage gradually starts to accumulate when more months pass by, dunno sounds quite relaxed if you allow animals to overcrowd that much without any damage/issues.

But maybe its farmsim game-play mechanic with LUA scripting that its the first of the month that triggers all that animal stuff. Because right now the way I see it, this is the same as me time accelerating at least 3-4 days in 9 days seasons config setup, right?

Okay time to buy second pig barn, that is easy but choosing the location is... not!

BTW at this point I definitely feel like be careful what you wish for, you might get it... when looking at those animal numbers, didn't I say many days (is it week+ already?) ago that I want thousands of heads animal herd

After all I decided to place new pig barn into farm yard 3, there is actually plenty of space when I tried to fit the barn in build mode, I could even buy two of them... which... actually doesn't sound like a bad idea right now seeing how much those pigs breed. Most important thing is that these grain crop hungry buildings are right next to my grain bin silo.

So I saved game just in case I make some fatal mistake with the placeable purchase, farmsim is unforgiving when it comes to landscaping and placeables work.

2025-10-25T11:40:32Z

Okay all done. Purchased large pig barn and named it Pig 2. Filled it with one krampe sks 30/1050 trailer load of corn, barley, canola and sugar beets, then telehander loaded it with four straw 180cm round bales. Finally used the move animals mod to move all piglets from Pig 1 barn to this new one. I was really disappointed that move animals mod only allows you to move 100 at one time, ugh. Anyways its done, here are new animal count stats, I only list them for pigs now.

Pig count stats:

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Pig 1: 1882 / 2700
Pig 2: 1787 / 2700

Now I have to mop up by recording new FS22 AutoDrive network waypoint routes and target points.

Hmm, I have to admit, this starts to kind of feel like "end game" type of situation, I mean from here... where does this savegame go?

I mean sure more animal coops/barns, more animals, grow the herd, increased feed input and manure/slurry etc output, so more work, hmm hmm.

The more I think about all the work that has been done and more importantly that is waiting for me to feed these herds of animals... I am starting to think that its time to move on to my official Start From Zero savegame to make some progress there with written farming story, screenshots and 4k 60FPS videos. I just feel kind of exhausted when thinking about what kind of ordeal is it to feed all these animals, plus then that manure/slurry just overflow from the barns, yeah that doesn't feel very comfortable savegame action to me right now, but maybe its because I've played so much, hmm did this savegame begin at sep 9th, hmm yeah I think it did, that is quite nice farming session or well era dunno what to call it. This savegame now has 599hrs 47min on it.

In-game feb 0010hrs, new animals have hatched and born. Lets see what I got.

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 65 * female and 53 * male.

Sheep 1 new sheep's have born, they are 4 * young ram male (welsh) and 1 * lamb female (mountain).

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 149 * female and 166 * male.

Pig 1 barn new piglets have born, they are 62 * piglet male (black pied), 102 * piglet female (landrace), 57 * piglet female (black pied), 61 * piglet male (berkshire), 112 * piglet male (landrace) and 61 * piglet female (berkshire).

Pig 2 barn new piglets have born, they are 111 * piglet female (berkshire), 114 * piglet female (black pied), 107 * piglet male (berkshire), 123 * piglet male (landrace), 145 * piglet female (landrace) and 116 * piglet male (black pied).

Sold off chicken males again.

New animal count stats:

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Chicken Coop 1: 379 / 3600
Chicken Coop 2: 1352 / 3600
Cow 1: 42 / 800
Pig 1: 2337 / 2700
Pig 2: 2503 / 2700
Sheep 1: 92 / 650
Sheep 2: 17 / 650

Its truly unbelievable how those pigs breed, they put chickens into shame

Hmm rounding things up a bit you could roughly say that both pig barns are full, most likely on the next birth batch they will overcrowd. Oh my oh my!

Seems like if you REALLY want to do hardcore pig farming, cattle ranching or dairy cow farm stuff, enhanced animal system is your friend.

Hmm actually cattle/dairy-cow breeding is super slow, guess its the pregnancy time, I believe these animals take long time to mature into reproduction age and then the pregnancy is again hmm I think several months, dunno, but its clear night and day difference to pigs.

In-game mar 0008hrs, its now new year spring planting season! Also new animals have hatched and born, including some slower growing ones, cool.

Chicken Coop 1 new chickens hatched, they are 43 * female and 72 * male.

Sheep 1 barn new sheep's have born, they are 2 * lamb female (steinschaf) and 1 * young ram male (steinschaf).

Chicken Coop 2 new chickens hatched, they are 225 * female and 227 * male.

Pig 1 barn new piglets have born, they are 69 * piglet male (black pied), 32 * piglet male (landrace), 84 * piglet female (berkshire), 78 * piglet male (berkshire), 78 * piglet female (black pied) and 29 * piglet female (landrace).

Sheep 2 barn new sheep's have born, they are 1 * lamb female (steinschaf), 1 * lamb female (mountain) and 1 * young ram male (bentheim).

Cow 1 barn new cows have born, they are 1 * calf female (angus) and 2 * calf male (brown swiss).

Aww, only one female calf to continue the breeding in the future, oh well maybe on the next birth cycle

Then sold off chicken males.

Cow 1 milk: 388.5k liters, straw: 287.3k liters, slurry: 399.2k liters and manure: 310.9k liters.

Pig 1 straw: 52k liters, slurry: 1.282m liters (full!) and manure: 905.1k liters.

Pig 2 straw: 144.2k liters, slurry: 178.3k liters and manure: 138.7k liters.

New animal count stats:

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Chicken Coop 1: 422 / 3600
Chicken Coop 2: 1577 / 3600
Cow 1: 45 / 800
Pig 1: 2707 / 2700
Pig 2: 2503 / 2700
Sheep 1: 95 / 650
Sheep 2: 20 / 650

Finally some calf's born, it feels like extremely long time to wait for cattle/dairy-cows to breed, then they only have very few offspring, but I mean guess this is how it works in real life too, so its just what it is. In the future maybe I'll start cattle/dairy-cow barns with many more animals than hmm what was it I had here, like 20 or something. Might be good to begin with at least 100 or even 200, to get jump start on the breeding.

About FS22 "seasons" day config, I must say that going from 9 day seasons config to 1 day is a shock to the system mainly because how production chains and animal data changes, its so weird now to see production chains stats change pretty much every second, and now with animals its one hour is definitely a change in the stats.

As I'm typing this at in-game mar 0033hrs my Pig 1 barn is almost out of base food (corn) and straw. And as mentioned in the above its slurry tank is now FULL, yikes.

But this is what I wanted, more action instead of endless boring time acceleration, yeah but this definitely is a shock to the system, takes some time to get used to for sure. I don't think any kind of larger farm could run 1 day seasons config, its just simply too little time for a month. On this enhanced animal system savegame its OK though, keeps you on the edge when even a short time acceleration has numbers flickering like crazy in production inspector

Today I got some good data from animal placeables and enhanced animal system mod, it was productive day.