Talk:Drone/@comment-25398538-20190611214355/@comment-11319-20190621044146

If only they could take more complex instructions beyond 'take thing from here and put here.' Because I just don't let the goddamn drones anywhere near my coops because they'll just suck them dry. I want at least two of each chicken type to remain in the box for breeding purposes, but they will just take all the chickens, because these are really stupid devices. Even the new advanced drones aren't much better.

See, I use the same system you do, and my solution to the meat issue was to just have them take the chickens from a silo, which I populate with chickens from the cave, which has five chicken coops in. You say you might as well be feeding them yourself, but I find my system is simpler than that, since you only have to deposit the chickens in one location, not four. Also, when the feeders are full anyways, you probably want somewhere to place the overflow.