Keepers won’t clean big habitats

I don’t know how people manage to have more than one species in one big habitat because I currently have 5 keepers just working for zebras, antipopes and buffalos and they won’t clean the damn habitat. I keep getting pandemic infection cause the place is filthy but honestly only one keeper enter the habitat and it’s only to feed the poor animals. No one will clean it, and by the time the only keeper has filled all the food treys and the enrichment items it has already passed a month and he is without any energy to clean the place. Honestly that is obviously because of the time scale but that’s a thing we can’t raise up cause then we get assaulted by players saying that who whines about the time class doesn’t know how to play. Well I know how to, I have very specific work zones, big facilities for the stuff, more that one keeper for an averaged sized enclosure, cause it’s not as massive as some I’ve seen and still, all my animals keep getting sick.
 
Its not very useful without some you know screen shots of your habitat, cleanliness level etc The "Clean Habitat" role is selected for all the Keepers right?
 
Yes absolutely. I forgot to take screenshots, but it would have not been very useful anyway, cause the cleansiness was stuck at 49% and the keepers were entering the habitat just to feed the animals and that was it. I am going to rebuild the entire habitat and see if that will change something
 
The water is filtered by two facilities that are currently been checked by three mechanics every 3 months, so it wasn’t the water pond I made. Two of the keepers have regular roles, while one has only the cleaning role. They would just refuse to clean and stare in front of the gate or inside the habitat at piles of zebras and buffalos poop.
 
Are your keepers trained to the fullest? Maybe they get tired too quickly if the habitat is big enough. Trained keepers work longer before they need a rest.
And you need a staff room and a keeper hut as close as possible to big habitats.
 
Nope, not to the fullest. Two have 4 stars and the last one only 3. But I tried to rebuilt it, I might put all the food in one place, but with the barrel feeders is hard cause they roll around. The time scale doesn’t come in help with big habitats cause it takes literally weeks to fill all the food and by the time they are done they have to go back to fill them again. Pretty ridiculous...
 
You got right. If they spend all the time traveling between feeders and enrichments and getting tired, the poop comes second :) Or never comes :))
 
You need to minimize the distance the keeper walks for feeding. Put all your food trays in a cluster near the door of the habitat and have the keeper hut and staff room right outside, and set a work zone for the keepers with just the habitat, hut and staff room. There is a limit to how many animals you can have before the keeper can't keep up with feeding them. I got to about 100 animals (10 species) in my biggest enclosure and then they started starving.

I never had a problem with keeping it clean though. You can have a keeper cleaning and a keeper feeding at the same time.
 
yeah maybe not worth unticking the cleaning job from any of the keepers as they will clean straight after they have put down the feed
 
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