Originally posted by Masked:

Maybe I am doing something wrong here, but I have a boar pen. There are a dozen pigs in there. I find it irritating that I have to throw down carrots for them to eat and when I come back to check up on them, it just goes into my inventory.

Just throwing a stack of 50 carrots on the ground like its discarded seems silly.

Is there a better way to do things?

I highly suggest looking on youtube at various breeding pen designs as there are a couple where it is less of an issue or none at all depending on which design you choose. It wont alleviate the picking back up but the designs mean that your proximity to where you toss the food is such that the chance to accidentally pick it back up would be very rare.

But really its a very minor QoL issue currently. It takes all of a few seconds to redrop the food and be on your way.