0.7.5f Cow Barns: Markets take my fodder!

Farthest Frontier Ideas and Feedback
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I have most of my food making fairly near to each other. So barn is close to town wall and cheesemaker just inside.

There are buildings stocking most food items slightly closer to the markets. But, I have twice now watched my barn help stock the barn with fodder for the winter, and then a market stocker comes and takes it all. The roots mind you, leaving the meat. It starts a stocking race loop.

Could market stockers only take meat and milk?
Or a fodder specific item be added? (hay from grass fields, or straw by product from threshing perhaps at wind mill?)

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You can untick items you don’t want the market to stock in the market window.

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But I want the market to stock root vegetables! I just don’t want them to get them from the cow barn.

Need to see if the barn workers go get them back. That would be quite passive aggressive of them and funny.

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Actually this is probably an oversight in game design and I think it might be worth reporting it as a bug. I don’t suppose the devs would have wanted this outcome. After all no one comes and grabs the coal from the blacksmith.

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I had thought this the other day while playing, but hadn’t posted. Yes, I think it would be appropriate and realistic for the barn to have a source or sources for hay or straw for the cows. Or have grass fields created in the barn’s space for grazing.

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We just could harvest the clover we are already planting for fertile issues?? That is the most reasonable solution for a cow only fodder. Making some sort of hay out of it.

The Miller could produce straw after milling the grains too. This would be another source to feed cows and reduce competition on some ressources (grains are used by millers, brewers and herders)

and stuff…

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Well one reason I left this in feedback was this problem would go away if they devs have a plan to add hay/silage/feed as an item, as markets won’t try to stock that.

But as @IngeJones pointed out, items stocked to be consumed vs items stocked after production may need separating. Can two coal using buildings also create a stocking loop?

BTW, you do not want clover hay or to graze on pure clover for cattle! (or horses). It can prove fatal. Small amounts of clover in a field need monitoring. Fresh, and not in bloom, it usually isn’t toxic in small amounts. If harvested and made into hay with blooms though can kill. Source: I’ve farmed both species. Had to monitor my fields and would never feed clover hay. Try google for “clover poisoning” or “clover disease” in cattle or horses. I also inspected all hay fed.

So in real life, feeding your cows in that 100% clover field will kill them, and there is an even higher chance the hay will. Since fresh clover in small amounts is ok, pasture rotation can help prevent this.

Then again, if the devs want to shower us with “old timey diseases” and have some old timey crop management, will they do old timey livestock management? Much is lost now with factory farms :frowning:

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