If you bring out your chickens just once-does it forbid them from eating from the trough?

Pluffy

Planter
I don't get it-I have a silo and there is hay in the trough, however she won't eat it, I tried to look online and I think I read somewhere if you put animals outside, they won't eat the hay, I did it because it said Chickenbutt was fine and my hyperempathy hit in and wanted her to be happy, so I put her outside, but right now it's winter so I can't feed her grass if she no longer eats hay.

I don't think that it's true, as that would be a design flaw, but I'm not sure what is going wrong here.
 
Lew Zealand

Lew Zealand

Helper
If you have a Silo and your Coop/Barn are fully upgraded, you will never see the Hay in the trough go down, it will autofill from the Silo. You'll just see your Hay in the Silo go down by the number of your animals every day. Maybe that's what you're seeing?

In Spring, Summer, and Fall, if you let your animals out and they can reach grass, they will prefer to eat the grass and won't eat the Hay in the trough. And that will make your animals happier than if they just had Hay. In the Winter, the animals won't go out because it's too cold and they'll be OK with eating Hay every hay. They still get happy but not as much as when they're outside the rest of the year.

Other ways to keep them happy are to leave the Coop/Barn door closed when it's raining and all Winter. Also they get happier in the Winter when there's a Heater in there. Heaters are available at Marnie's Ranch but then Marnie's rarely available at Marnie's Ranch unless your name is Lewis. Maybe if you carry around a certain Gold Statue or pair of shorts, it might improve your luck.

Maybe grow a mustache or hold a comb under your nose?
 

Pluffy

Planter
It says the chicken is looking thin-so I think that's means she's hungry, also I did get more hay and put it in the silo, and the trough, but she's still hungry, thanks for the heater though!
 
Lew Zealand

Lew Zealand

Helper
This sounds like a bug.


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Oh, sorry.

Seriously, your Chickens and any other animals are supposed to choose from whatever is available by the end of the day. First is Grass outside and if that's not available, then Hay from the trough. Maybe submit a bug report? Hopefully someone else here has a better suggestion.
 

Pluffy

Planter
No, when I looked it up it didn't say to do it, I will try!

EDIT: It worked, thank you! I thought it was for the chicken to sit on it when it given eggs.
 
Lew Zealand

Lew Zealand

Helper
Leavo said:
Did you take hay out of the bin and place it across the bench in the coop?
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Thank you for being more complete with your answer than I was. I assumed the "trough" was the bench thing where you put the Hay. Always better to fully explain things.
 
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Leavo

Planter
Oh that's awesome! I had the same thing happen to me and I was also distraught that my chickens were unhappy and "looking a little thin" and couldn't find ANYTHING to help me figure it out. I think I was watching some Stardew Valley video on youtube, and saw them do it. I had had no idea. Really glad that helped!
 

Pluffy

Planter
Yeah I wasn't THAT worried, because I know animals don't die of starvation, but I still wanted her to grow up (and also felt bad for her.), I'm really thankful SV doesn't kill animals (minus that random attack, that I'm going to prepared for.)
 

Pluffy

Planter
If you keep the gates open at all times, it's not going to happen, and if it does-if you want the animal back at all costs, you can edit the saves files to undo the last save.
 
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Ereo

Helper
Just don't close any gates or doors that might lock them outside and you'll be fine. They can only be attacked if they're locked out.
 
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