Egg farm, is 10 of each overkill?

[Grandta]

So I plan on breeding Rexes for boss battles and decided to setup a egg farm for the imprint kibble Dino's.

I was thinking of getting 10 of each of the Dino's, 2 male to 8 females. Is this overkill?

[DeweyDecimal]

In my opinion, maybe a bit, unless you intend to downsize once you've built up a stockpile 

[DarthaNyan]

There is (or at least was) such a thing as a max amount of eggs that can be laid on the ground in a certain radius at once.

So it is quite possible to get too many dinos for kibble farms that they might to start interfering with each other.

 

Half your proposed amount should suffice if you diligently check up on your egg layers.

[Umber0010]

1 male is enough, sense the egg boost from mate boost doesn't stack

[WolfBrink]

We have a surplus of eggs and use only 3 of each dino. (4 of each on the ones that lay eggs more rarely.) 1 male and 2-3 females. 1 male will give the boost to any # of females within his radius.

[Grandta]

So it would be wise to cut it to 1 male to 3-4 females?

[BertNoobians]

1 female might do it, depending on how much rex you raise and how often you visit the egg barn.
cuddles and walks are asked more often then kibbles.

i am raising animals non stop for at least 2 months and from the egglayers that i have one female of, i have 50 eggs/kibble in stock.
from the females that i have 2 of, about 100 in stock.

4 females will be total overkill, even 3 is alot.

for the first time you will like to have a buffer of kibbles. 2 of each kibble per rex.

[RawOrange]

Of literally everything, yea I'd say so lol 

[GrumpyBear]

It just depends on how long u want to wait to have enough kibble to tame something.  If you just want kibble to feed for imprinting  - 1 male plus 2 or 3 females is fine to get what you need going.  But if you want to tame something and need a lot, then grab as many low level females as you can and spread out your eggers .   If you cluster them all in a small area, the dinos that lay eggs a lot will keep the rare droppers from dropping theirs.  Keep your Dodo's away from your dimetrons and so on.  Once you have enough eggs to tame the entire map, downsize.

[DeningWei]

If you hang around your base a bit, especially for raising babies just remember to do an egg collection run every 30 min or so.  Utilize oviraptor and just one male and 2 to 3 females is plenty.

Over time you will find you have more eggs than you can use for imprinting and taming.

[MirageUK]

Our Island egg farm has a min of 2 of each of the required girls and seems to produce all we need.  

However, since installing Structures+ with the auto-item collector I'm guessing that I either didn't check regularly enough or most were lost to ground - get a LOT more picked up by the S+ mod item collector so don't need as many anymore - just 1 female and 1 male of each.

[edandbunny]

1 male with 2 females should work well for most of the egg layers. Dimetrodons for me tend to be slow egg layers so 3-4 females will be better on them.

[Grandta]

I went with 1-2 ratio and the eggs are rolling in. 

Don't have all the Dino's required for imprinting yet. Missing 6 Dino's but shouldn't be a problem.

 

Kinda glad I didn't go with a 2-8 ratio, would've been more than 100 Dino's and building a pen would've been a nightmare.

 

 

[TraXzDK]

1 male is enough

10 of each is pretty overkill, for some of the dinos. Since some dinos are laying egg much more often than other does. 5 is more realistic, 1 male 4 females. 
It also depends on which area of the map your base is located, some areas tend to make the dinos lay eggs more often. And for the dimetrodon, it as an example lay more eggs if it's "half" under water. 

[Blackrapids]

I agree with 5, we originally had around 1 F to every 4 M. We now have about 10 of each and have made it available to the public as an egg farm. 10 would be overkill for just our tribe.

[Paultron89]

I use 1 male 2 females for most in the kibble farm, some I find lay less eggs (terror birds) and have a couple more of those. Like anything it all adds up over time. Now we've got at least 150 of each imprinting kibble.

[Zambezi]

Last time I played official we used 1xM 3 - 4xF but we kept dodos, dilos, raptors, at a separate base that was 3 - 4 min flight by argent. All the others kept at main base.

Don't forget though with many dino's comes bigger bases.

[dennis12]

Only need 1 male 1 female with 3 ovi bonus

[Joebl0w13]

3 minutes ago, dennis12 said:

Only need 1 male 1 female with 3 ovi bonus

The Ovi bonus doesn't stack. Only need one.

[ToxicEnimga]

We usually use just 2 - 3 females and 1 male and depending on the setup of the base we are at 1 - 2 oviraptors (because the bonus won't reach them all). 

[LLOYD0102]

when i first start i would do 1 male and 6 females till i saved up a good amount. after that i would get rid of a couple and go down to 1 male and 2 females just to refill what i use.

[Gorbyy]

On 2/4/2018 at 3:08 PM, Grandta said:

So I plan on breeding Rexes for boss battles and decided to setup a egg farm for the imprint kibble Dino's.

I was thinking of getting 10 of each of the Dino's, 2 male to 8 females. Is this overkill?

yolo

[JackpotMonkey]

I've done a lot of kibble farms and if you want to maximize your egg output especially if starting from nothing 2 males CAN have a positive effect. There is no additional laying bonus but some wild tame dinos just seem to lay more than others, furthermore some males seem to cause more eggs to produce than others. Bred kibble dinos seem to be more consistent in laying however. I used to keep track of which of my females was laying the most and when it came time to thin only get rid of the poor producers.

[onedudesmind]

On 2/6/2018 at 5:06 PM, Joebl0w13 said:

The Ovi bonus doesn't stack. Only need one.

The Ovi bonus doesn't stack but you need three to keep constant coverage. A single Ovi has a buff that turns on and off every few seconds, you need three to cover the gaps.

[Joebl0w13]

57 minutes ago, onedudesmind said:

The Ovi bonus doesn't stack but you need three to keep constant coverage. A single Ovi has a buff that turns on and off every few seconds, you need three to cover the gaps.

That's not how it works.