Improving animal health

Today I received this message for the first time →
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But I couldn’t find anything to improve their health. What should be done ?

If they have food and good grazing it might be your herd size. Sometimes the tier 1 barns struggle to slaughter due to staffing. Tier 2 can remedy that, until fixed. If your herd is too big your cows will get sick

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The farm is level 2 with 4 workers and contains 15 cows.
But on a very meager pasture: I wanted to improve it to place fields there.
Would the land be too poor to support so many cows: 42%?

When you place your grazing zone, the interface tells you the “fodder quality” (qualité du fourage je suppose en Français). If it’s high enough, your cows will have their bar 100% full health.

It gets lower if:

  • you don’t have enough food during winter and your cows starve to the point where this message appears
  • you have too many cows (more than what the barn can hold normally - 16 for level 2 barn)

During the year, the place you chose for grazing will lose a bit of its fodder quality. If it’s high enough from the start, no problem. But if it’s already kind of low, it becomes potentially too low.

Health goes back up easily with food and a pasture with good fodder quality.

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Thanks for your detailed answer.

So I have to change the place for grazing. The root vegetable storehouse is very close to the farms and is always well stocked.
What is curious is that in the other farm, just next door with the same percentage, the cows are doing well and the land is almost perfect for cultivating now.

15 cows too may IMHO. start another barn and split the herd.

Upgrade your farms. Now with latest patch tier 2 farms can actually support more animals without going into red with same amount of animals as tier 1.

I have 4 farms that prepare 2x2 zones for farming. When they are fully fertilized i demolish my used up fields and move cows there. Circle of life!

If only we had option to fallow fields for whole year so cows can do their business there.
Just look how ostriv does it, you have farm building that have workers tending assigned fields and if fields are in recovery mode farms automatically sends cows to improve soil there. Very neat mechanic.

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