Pig Enclosures/Farming Simulator 19

The in-game Minimap icon for a Pig Enclosure.

A Pig Enclosure or Pig Pen is a type of Animal Pen in Farming Simulator 19. It is one of 5 different types of Animal Pens available in the base game. The Pig Enclosure allows you to raise and breed Pigs, while also producing Slurry and Manure as optional by-products.

Unlike in previous games, Pig Enclosures must be purchased and placed manually on the map within an owned Parcel. You may place more than one Pig Enclosure. Each Enclosure has a hard limit on the number of Pigs it can hold. Pig Enclosures are expensive, but can very quickly pay for their own cost.

Pig Enclosures have 6 different drop-off/pick-up areas. Pigs themselves must be purchased separately, and either sent straight to the Enclosure (for a fee) or brought there by Animal Transport (for free).

A Pig Enclosure can hold a large amount of Slurry and Manure (approx. 800,000 liters of each). Capacities for input materials (Water, Straw, and 4 different groups of Crops) depend entirely on the number of pigs housed within the enclosure at any given time.

Pigs can breed inside an enclosure over time, so long as they are supplied with the proper materials and so long as there is room in the Enclosure for more pigs. They can then be taken to be sold at the Animal Dealer for a profit. Pigs breed extremely rapidly, and selling off the excess is a substantial and very stable source of income.

Farming Simulator 19 offers two different models of Pig Enclosures by default. They differ in price, physical size, and the number of Pigs they can hold.

List of Pig Enclosures

Below is a list of all Pig Enclosure models in the base game. They can be found in the "Placeables" category, under the "Animal Pens" sub-category.

Name	Price	Maintenance Cost per Day	Capacity	Required Space (Meters)
				Width	Length
Lizard Pig Enclosure	90,000	90	100	36	36
Lizard Large Pig Enclosure	250,000	250	300	36	36

Placement

Maps in Farming Simulator 19 do not contain any Animal Pens by default. Instead, players must purchase and place their own Animal Pens in order to engage in Animal Husbandry work of any kind.

To place a Pig Enclosure, the player must first purchase a Parcel of land large enough to contain one, and then gather enough money to purchase a Pig Enclosure (see prev. chapter). Pig Enclosures can be purchased through the Placeables category at the Store, under the "Animal Pens" sub-category.

You may place a Pig Enclosure on any surface that does not contain any solid object, including houses, permanent roads, other Placeables, trees, vehicles, and so on (painted gravel and concrete surfaces do not count as actual roads). You can place a Pig Enclosure on a field, but this will destroy the part of the field that's under the Pig Enclosure. You may place the Pig Enclosure on uneven ground, and this will flatten the area required for the Enclosure for an extra charge. If the ground is very uneven, the game may refuse to allow placing the Pig Enclosure altogether, in which case you may need to perform some manual Landscaping first to make the area flatter.

Pay attention to the rotation of the Pig Enclosure, as you will need room to access each of the six pick-up/drop-off points. You can see them while placing the structure, but cannot see which point is which; Make sure to save the game before placing the pen so you can reload it if you've made a mistake.

You may place multiple Pig Enclosures on the map, if you can afford them. Note that each Pig Enclosure costs a small amount of money per day, deducted at midnight.

Purchasing Pigs

Main article: Animal Dealer (Farming Simulator 19)

Before a Pig Enclosure can do anything, you must first place at least one Pig inside the enclosure.

You may purchase new Pigs from the Animal Dealer for $1500 per Pig. There are 4 different models of Pigs in the base game, though they are almost entirely identical in function. Note however that there is a benefit to purchasing only pigs of the same exact model for each Pig Enclosure you own.

Pigs can be transferred automatically from the Animal Dealer to the selected Enclosure for a fee of $100 per Pig. Alternatively, you can bring an Animal Transport to the Animal Dealer to pick up pigs yourself and avoid the fee; You will then need to drop them off at the appropriate drop-off area at the Enclosure.

If you already own a Pig Enclosure, you can move pigs from one Enclosure to another using an Animal Transport.

Input Materials

A Pig Enclosure can be filled with up to 10 different kinds of materials in order to start producing. There are three different drop-off points, each accepting only certain materials.

The capacity for each material at the Pig Enclosure is determined entirely by the number of Pigs currently living inside that enclosure. As pigs are added or removed (including by natural breeding), capacity will increase or decrease respectively.

The capacity for each material is based on the amount consumed by a single Pig over 10 days (240 hours), multiplied by the number of pigs living in the Enclosure. With pigs, however, there are two caveats to this:

1. If only one pig is present, capacities are slightly higher than the listed values would indicate.
2. Each of the four food groups has a capacity based on the total amount of food eaten by pigs from all food groups combined, rather than from each food group. Thus, a Pig Enclosure can actually hold far more than 10 days of food from each category. The more important a food group is for Productivity, the less extra capacity it affords.

Material	Capacity per Pig (liters)	Notes
Water	200	Produces Slurry. Required to breed pigs.
Straw	300	Produces Manure. Increases Productivity value by 10%, but only if Water and at least one type of food are also present.
Maize Food Group Corn	900	One of four options required to breed pigs. Increases Productivity value by 40% when present, but only if Water is also present.
Grains Food Group Wheat, Barley	900*	One of four options required to breed pigs. Increases Productivity value by 20% when present, but only if Water is also present.
Oilseeds Food Group Canola, Sunflower, Soybean	900*	One of four options required to breed pigs. Increases Productivity value by 16% when present, but only if Water is also present.
Roots Food Group Potatoes, Sugar Beets	900*	One of four options required to breed pigs. Increases Productivity value by 4% when present, but only if Water is also present.

Different crops that share the same Food Group are identical as soon as they are poured into the Pig Enclosure. They share the same storage bin and capacity, and have the same effect on pigs.

Products

Every 15 minutes of in-game time, the game checks each Pig Enclosure to see whether it has the required input materials to produce any product. If so, the game will subtract input materials as appropriate, and place the products in its internal or external storage tanks, as appropriate.

Slurry

If any Water is available, each pig consumes 20 liters of water and produces 95 liters of Slurry per day.

Slurry collects into an underground tank with a capacity of 800,000 liters. It can be removed using a Slurry Tanker or Slurry Spreader by parking the machine next to the tank's opening and hitting the "Refill" button Refill MachineDefault Buttons: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/d/dd/FS17_Logo_PC.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234847 Rhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/6/6c/FS17_Logo_XBOX.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234910 ??https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/e/e3/FS17_Logo_PS4.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170828002413 ??.

Manure

If any Straw is available, each pig consumes 30 liters of straw and produces 75 liters of Manure per day.

Manure collects outside the Pig Enclosure, in a Heap within an open-air bunker with a capacity of 800,000 liters. You can use a Loader or a Conveyor Belt to put it into a Tipper or Manure Spreader as required.

Breeding and Selling Pigs

If a Pig Enclosure is provided with both Water and any type of food, and contains at least one pig, the pigs in that Enclosure will begin to breed, increasing their numbers automatically over time. This is the primary product of a Pig Enclosure, and the primary generator of profit.

The rate at which pigs multiply depends on the number of pigs living in the Enclosure, as well as the current Productivity rating. The more pigs there are, the faster they'll multiply. Providing pigs with a mix of different food groups as well as Straw bedding, and keeping their feeding area clean (as explained in the next chapter) will achieve the highest possible breeding rate per pig.

By default, a single Pig at 100% Productivity rating will multiply after 144 hours. 10 pigs under the same conditions will multiply after 14 hours. Productivity is linked exponentially to breeding rate, so low productivity has a huge impact on breeding time, potentially reducing it as low as 3610 hours for a single pig to breed.

Pigs will stop breeding if water or food runs out, or if there is no more room at the Enclosure for more pigs.

Note: Each color of pig is treated as a separate entity for purposes of breeding. This means that it is advisable to keep only one color of pigs in each Enclosure. This is explained in detail in the article on Pigs.

Both store-bought and farm-bred Pigs can be sold for $1,000 each. You can sell Pigs directly by standing on the marked area outside the pig shed and hitting the "Animal Dialog" button Open Animal DialogDefault Buttons: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/d/dd/FS17_Logo_PC.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234847 Rhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/6/6c/FS17_Logo_XBOX.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170827234910 ??https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/farmingsimulator/images/e/e3/FS17_Logo_PS4.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/30?cb=20170828002413 ??. Selling pigs this way incurs a $100 Transport Fee per pig. You can avoid the fee entirely by opening the dialogue while towing an Animal Transport, moving the pigs into the transport, and taking them to the Animal Dealer to be sold.

Pigs breed incredibly quickly, with the largest enclosure available in the base game potentially reaching a rate of under 30 minutes per new Pig. If you keep your pigs fed, they should fill the Enclosure to capacity after a dozen days or so. This is the time to start selling pigs off - which is the primary purpose of the Enclosure.

Keep an eye on the number of Pigs in each of your Enclosures, and once an enclosure is full make sure to sell some of the pigs to make room for more (and of course to make your primary profit). With a large enclosure, this may have to be done several times per day. It is usually best to fill your Animal Transport, allow the enclosure fill up with pigs again, and repeat.

Food Consumption

As long as Pigs have any food in their Enclosure, they will consume that food at a constant rate per Pig. Different Food Groups are consumed at different rates, based on their contribution to Productivity.

Food consumption is processed every 15 minutes of in-game time, but the values below show consumption per 24 hours (one in-game day).

Food Group	Types	Consumption per Day per Pig
Maize		45
Grains		22.5
Oilseeds		18
Roots		4.5

If provided with all food groups simultaneously, each Pig consumes a total of 90 liters of food per day. This is the amount you need to consider when feeding Pig Food to your pigs.

NOTE: Pigs consume food if available, even when Water is not available. This is purely a waste of food, because without Water the pigs will not breed.

Cleanliness

Cleanliness is an important value that increases Pig breeding rates, but degrades over time if not addressed. It ranges from 0% to 100%, and is tracked separately for each Pig Enclosure.

So long as there is food (of any kind) inside the Pig Enclosure, each Pig ejects up to 17.5 liters of Pig Food per day onto the ground in front of the feeding trough, in the form of small Heaps. This Pig Food can then be picked up and dumped back into the Pig Enclosure in order to keep it clean. This amount is lower if the Pigs are fed only on Oilseeds or only on Roots, reduced to 15.9 or 3.2 liters per day, respectively.

This effect is not just cosmetic; The game keeps track of the current Cleanliness value of the enclosure's feeding area (as a percentage), divides it by 10, and adds the result to the Productivity rating for that Enclosure. Thus, 100% Cleanliness increases Productivity by 10%, which in turn increases the pigs' Breeding rate. This assumes the pigs are provided with both food and water, otherwise Productivity will remain at 0% regardless of Cleanliness.

If the ejected food is not picked up at all, it will take approximately 48 hours until 0% cleanliness is reached. At that point, no more food will be ejected until some of it has been cleaned up.

Ejected food can be picked up at any time by a Loader or any similar machinery and dumped right back into the feeding trough. Note that you can simply dump the food right back on the ground where you picked it up, since this area counts as a dumping zone for food.

In Pig Enclosures, the ejected food is always Pig Food, regardless of what type of food the pigs are being fed. Pouring it back into the feeding trough will suddenly boost Productivity to 80% for a short while, as Pig Food provides all four food groups simultaneously.

Selling the Pen

You may sell a Pig Enclosure for exactly half its purchase price through the Garage menu.

A Pig Enclosure can only be sold if it currently contains no Pigs. You can sell off the Pigs (see above) at any time to facilitate this.

Note that you will not be reimbursed for any materials left inside the enclosure when it is sold.