February 1978
As little else is happening over winter, we thought we'd try to track some numbers on our animals and the greenhouse. Not sure if there could be seasonal variations, but I'm guessing, in game, winter is the same as summer when it comes to how much animals eat and produce.
Chickens
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Sorghum eaten Eggs produced Sorghum/Egg Chicken in start of period
by chickens
January 2486.458496 2078.076416 1.196519 435
February 2604.166626 2508.722229 1.038045 500
Chicken pen have recently hit capacity at 500. I'm guessing the increase in eggs produced per sorghum may be due to the average age of chickens in pen is starting to go upwards. Either way, a liter of eggs are worth close to double a liter of sorghum, so we seem to start to make money of this. But 2508 liters of food in a month, which is likely still increasing as the pen is now full and average age going upwards, we'll need quite a bit of grain to keep them fed. We thought we had Sorghum to spare and sold some in autumn, but now we're practically empty. We have 3 small barley fields, but they won't be harvestable before June, meaning we probably have to buy grain for the chickens for those three months, which may amount to close to 10.000 liters of grain. Barley is currently costing $782 per 1000 liter in the farmers market, but that at least sounds cheap enough that we'll still get a bit of profit from the eggs.
With 2600 liters of Sorghum eaten a day, I understand how I was annoyed by the 1000 liter trough capacity
From the data above, it seems like keeping chickens gives a good gain for the grain we put in, but it's a lot of work with small trough capacity.
Horses:
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Grain eaten Hay eaten Water drunk Before Price After price Price change
January 200 600 100 2955 3083 128 x 2
February 208 625 104 3083 3211 128 x 2
We've got two horses. Hay is pretty cheap, so price is driven by the oats. 200 liters of oat, even if we managed to sell it at a great price of 1064 (twice the average price), that's $212.8, and we net $256 in horse price gain, and then we still have to deduct a bit for hay price, property maintenance cost and machinery cost for driving food and water to and from.
Hmm.. With all the work riding them, scaling up to having lots of horses is not doable, and a few horses doesn't make a dent in the economy, so this is just basically just for fun..
Sheep:
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Hay eaten Wool gained Hay/wool
January 2250 1606 1.400415
February 2344 1754 1.336422
We have 45 sheep here. With hay being worth very little, this is decent income. We are getting above $1500 per 1000 liter wool, so during a year this sounds like around $30,000 in income for 45 sheep. If we get good equipment for creating hay, we could scale this up too. I think production is going upwards as the sheep in the pen matures, so more are producing wool.
Cows:
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Hay eaten Straw consumed Milk produced Slurry produced Manure
January 3389.8 914.0 960 2002.2 1533.3
February
Cows are harder to calculate. Eight cows are a small population to average across different age groups. But hay and straw are pretty cheap products, straw isn't required, and you get both milk, slurry and manure back. Would probably be better if scaled up, but if so, just as sheep,
we need a good way to get hay in quantity.
Large Greenhouse
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Lettuce Strawberry Tomato
January 255.98 1023.93 511.97
February 255.95 1023.80 511.90
This is almost pure gain, as water doesn't cost us much.
Which is also why I've limited myself to 1, to not get much steady income which doesn't require me to work.
