"kwanzaabot;c-17941666" wrote:
A way to make farming less time-consuming. My god, if you have more than one animal and some crops, you can kiss your social life goodbye. Just in my last in-game day, my Sim got up at 3am, and wasn't done until 7pm that night.
Cows, chickens and llamas should all be able to graze. I've had chickens IRL, they dig up your garden looking for beetles and worms. Chicken feed is nice to have as a backup, but they're actually pretty self-sufficient animals.
Maybe feeding animals could've been limited to a water trough, maybe seed for the chickens and bales of hay for the llama/cow, but only as a backup in case they're not placed on grass (or if it's snowing) and can't graze. Even then, the water trough could be replaced by simply having a pond nearby.
I recommend creating a club and making sort of a job out of it. I have a Gardeners Club of 7 Sims. Still testing it out but I did started the gathering 9am-10am and they finished around 4pm and that was just “tending the garden together” alone, With a lunch break.
So I’m thinking when I play again, I’ll try to start the gathering Every morning, weather permitting (rain), I will start a gathering around 4am-5am have a breakfast gathering and then Get to Work!
I think I’m going to have the kids of the family that owns the farm help out too, they are a family of 8, only two parents six children, four boys, two girls.
I could have three, possibly four, of the children help out And speed it up.
Pay them in food or money “gifts.”
I want to say it should work but I don’t know how it’s going to work. unless I make a separate clubs for each animal to tend to them.
Oh my gosh, troughs would have been so smart!!!
I haven’t played with the animals yet, I thought I it would be as easy as I clean them up, socialize a little, and let them out on the fields and Graze in Grass. Only difficulty I thought would have been is gaining trust.
