Assuming that even in the worst climate zones winters are of rather normal length, cows will have some kind of grass fodder available most of the year so the amount of food stored is far too high and seems like it calculates as if there was a year-round winter, thus the amount should be reduced by a large percentage unless events like a “year without a summer” are planned for the future.
I have the opposite problem with my inefficient herders. My cows usually run out of food. They should be out stocking the barn with feed during the time my cows are out grazing, instead of waiting for them to come in for milking and butchering, thus delaying the latter two operations while all four of the herders go buzzing about gathering the food they should have gathered while the cows were out grazing. And does it really take all four to stock the barn? Here again is an example of how using the wagons to deliver resources and foods to buildings as needed would probably work much better.
Possibly your food storage is too far away from the barn? I only have a T1 barn atm so I can’t speak if T2, but so far I never needed more than 1 worker to stock hundreds of units of grain and root vegetables, milk and graze them just fine alone.
The only situation that made it sometimes useful (not necessary) to have more workers was if the cows went rogue and ran away from a predator and had to be caught and calmed.
You need to build a bunch of smoke houses right next to the barns and set them up to just smoke meat. I started out with 4 for a single T2 barn and it has grown to 12 for multiple barns.
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I have root cellars and granaries and smokehouses right next to my barns! However, they are generally low on food – it isn’t getting delivered to these facilities for the herders to pick up! I would say I probably don’t need any more than one worker to go grab the feed, especially if this task is (1) taken care of while the cows are out grazing, and (2) made more efficient by having wagons deliver foods to all root cellars, granaries, and smokehouses, and pick up goods from there for delivery to warehouses, the Trading Center, and the markets. However, many times, I’ll open a barn and all four of the herders are out stocking the barn with feed. That’s not necessary.
This set up is about to get rearranged, again, but there is some basic information here that will help you.
Place your Granaries so they touch your Barns.
Here, each Barn has two Granaries in contact.
This will make sure your cows get enough to eat in the winter if your Barns are fully staffed.
There is a Cheesemaker, a Rat Catcher, two (upgraded) Root Cellars that take nothing but raw meat and milk while none of my other storage will accept raw meat or milk, ten Smokers and two Wells.
I set the herd size of all Barns to 16, each year culling herds back to 12 after the spring births, but stage them out manually so the meat does not hit all at once the way it does on autopilot set at 12.
The Smokers stay busy but don’t get overwhelmed.
The Cheesemaker can handle the four Barns worth of milking cows.
Four Farms and four Barn pastures, the fifth Farm is just now coming online.
The sixth Farm field you see (directly below the bottom-right Barn), is being removed and left fallow so the Barn can convert it to pasture once the Fodder bonus is restored to above 80%.
Food enough to create a 14 (3) month surplus for a population of 450.
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I will try this, thanks, barns are a complete mess right now but hopefully they may improve them, and this advice sounds good to make the best of the current situation
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