So instead of avoiding overfertilization, simply change your setup so that fertilization is irrelevant (because the freezer spoils the fertilization process and the cooks use the eggs with high priority) and manually decide to keep fertilized eggs. But I keep my animals inside most of the time anyway so the eggs are protected.

This might not hold true for excessive heat or rain. However, for normal weather conditions, they hatch faster than they decay. It's not like you'll keep several eggs every day, right? eggs that you do want to keep can easily be micromanaged. If I want any of them to hatch, I simply forbid the eggs from being hauled.

Chickens lay eggs in the morning, usually before anyone is up. To cook, you need a cooker, again found in the production menu.

free meat for you, and less predators to get funny ideas about going on a manhunt. Or forget about the bodies and let them eat whatever roams the map. Your cooks will now use fertilized eggs for cooking before anything else. Set some sleeping spots for them next to the bodies, so they can eat when they wake up.

In case you don't have a dedicated hauler, and it's possible that the eggs hatch before they get hauled: Make a special cooking bill (top priority) that cooks fine meals only using fertilized eggs and veggies (or if you lack veggies: simple meals using only fertilized eggs).

It also ensures that fertilized eggs stop hatching as soon as possible. This prevents spoilage and also durability damage from being outside.

I tend to always have someone whose main job is hauling, so all food is collected into the freezer ASAP.

All of my cooking bills allow fertilized eggs to be used.

It's near impossible to make sure all animal areas have a separate feeding area (all of them containing food at all times) unless you have an abundance of animal food.īundling the food in a single feeding spot means that all animals can meet (and procreate) there. I've experimented with segregating the animals, but I've stumbled upon issues with food distribution. When you freeze fertilized eggs for long enough, the fertilization stops (permanently) thus making the egg unfertilized again (functionally speaking! it's still classified as a fertilized egg) We recommend using the Colony Manager Mod. Useful mods to have a happier and efficient farm. More information about chickens and eggs can be found on the RimWorld Wiki. This may be different because of a feature update since the last answer was posted. Unfertilized chicken egg: 5 meat Chick: 5 meat Juvenile: 16 meat Adult: 22 meat No leather is yielded when slaughtering hens or roosters. The other answer is correct, although I have a different approach.

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