Feeding Trayエサ置き場

This useful tray can be filled to the brim with cattle feed to keep cattle fed and happy.
In-game description

What is Feeding Tray? Features and uses

Feeding Tray is a common item in Core Keeper (Placeables & furniture). It is crafted at the Livestock Workbench from Wood ×10, Copper Bar ×5.

Feeding Tray key points (from the game data)

Size when placed: 3×1 tiles.
Sells to merchants for 7 Ancient Coins.

Calculated and summarized by this site from the game data (1.3.0.6).

Feeding Tray mechanics (checked against the game data)

The Feeding Tray has 3 slots and only takes certain categories of items.

Written by this site from values in the game files (1.3.0.6 prefabs and configuration files).

Feeding Tray notes

Cattle help themselves to suitable feed placed inside.
Use the feed that matches the kind of animal.
Animals ignore feed that is not meant for them, even if it is in the tray.
If several slots hold suitable feed, the animal picks one of them at random.

These notes cover behavior that the game files do not show directly. They are based on facts from the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) page "Feeding Tray" (CC BY-SA 3.0), rewritten in this site's own words.

How to craft Feeding Tray (materials)

Crafted at Livestock Workbench What each crafting station makes →

Material	Amount	How to get the material
Wood	× 10	Fishing Enemy Chest Breakable
Copper Bar	× 5	Crafting Chest

What you get from salvaging Feeding Tray (Salvage and Repair Station)

Feeding Tray can be salvaged. Salvaging it gives the following items.

For each material, the amount is "amount used to craft × 0.49 (lower when durability is down, 0.3 at 0 durability) × the item's multiplier", and a fraction is the chance of one more (2.4 means 2, with a 40% chance of 3). The range is from 0 durability to full durability (items without durability always count as full). Scrap parts are a fixed number set by the item level. All items that can be salvaged are listed in salvaging.

How to get Feeding Tray

Placed inside dungeons or scenes (buildings, ruins and so on); break it or pick it up to get itPlaced in: Meadow Pen [Azeos' Wilderness], Strolly Poly Camp [The Clay Caves], Meadow Oasis [Azeos' Wilderness], Oasis House

Scene containers, dungeon placements, guaranteed drops and natural spawns are based on the Obtaining data of the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) (CC BY-SA 3.0), because these are not in the game files this site reads. Scene names are the wiki's English names.