Veggie Issues

[JWill603]

Ok here's my issue...i see all these carrots and onions on the ground of my lot...it does have a large garden...and i'm noticing that suddenly every few days my onions and carrots vanish? Are my horses eating them? Highly irritating... :llama:

[jenieusa]

yep its the horses

[buxcosim]

Horses can actually dig up onions, carrots, and potatoes (I think I got garlic once, too - all the root vegetables!), which is why you're seeing them everywhere. You should be able to click the vegetable and choose "Plant Here" if you want to grow the plant - but I believe horses will eat THOSE too! - or you can pick it up and put it in your inventory. IIRC, digging up vegetables is associated with the Piggy trait - it reinforces it, and horses with it will tend to dig up more vegetables.

My solution for keeping my horse out of my garden was to build a fence around the vegetable plot and use a single-width gate for access - horses can only use double-wide gates, so they can't get in and eat my plants! (If you have a small lot, fencing off part of it can cause routing issues with the "Gallop Around" command, but for large lots, it's not a problem.)

[VerDeTerre]

Isn't there some wild animal that goes after them as well?

[HystericalParoxysm]

Yeah, deer can do it too.

[JWill603]

Knew it was the horses! Oddly enough there is a single gated fence as I knew deer and such would chew up my crops. That's my confusion how are they still getting to the plants that are on the far side of the lot...

[buxcosim]

Knew it was the horses! Oddly enough there is a single gated fence as I knew deer and such would chew up my crops. That's my confusion how are they still getting to the plants that are on the far side of the lot...The deer/horses are getting at the plants inside the fence? Hmm, I've never had that with mine - at least not so far!

Is there maybe another way into the enclosure, such as through a barn, or perhaps a double-wide door leading from the house to the yard? I had to redesign a house when I found my horse in the living room once. Nothing like coming home from work to a puddle of horse pee in the middle of the floor...

[somethingelse]

i had to lock a fence to all but household to keep deer out once