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[tahujdt]

When I was playing my latest fortress, I noticed that my dwarves were giving plump helmets to grazers using the job "Feed Animal". Is this normal? I thought that you couldn't feed grazers in this current version without putting them on grass/moss. Is this a fluke?

[Sutremaine]

Dwarves will feed their pets if said pets are hungry.

[Dyret]

Really? Mine just seem to leave them hanging around the meeting hall until they starve to death and stink up the place.

[Telgin]

It's as random and unreliable as feeding patients and prisoners.  Rarely it works, most of the time they die first.

[tahujdt]

If it's like feeding prisoners, then burrows should do the trick. Huge underground factory farm, here I come!

[Larix]

"Pets" are actual personal pets of an individual dwarf - "xxx the mule foal, pet of Urist McImmigrant". Those will follow around their master, and the dwarf will notice if it's starving more often than not and feed it.
The animals hanging around in the meeting hall (and partying) until they starve are strays - animals not attached to a dwarf. And it seems dwarfs will never bother to feed those.

Better to just pasture all grazers anyway, regardless of pet status.

[tahujdt]

"Pets" are actual personal pets of an individual dwarf - "xxx the mule foal, pet of Urist McImmigrant". Those will follow around their master, and the dwarf will notice if it's starving more often than not and feed it.
The animals hanging around in the meeting hall (and partying) until they starve are strays - animals not attached to a dwarf. And it seems dwarfs will never bother to feed those.

Better to just pasture all grazers anyway, regardless of pet status.

We must do !!SCIENCE!!

[Meph]

You could try to pasture grazers on stone, and then assign them all as pets to ONE dedicated feeder, like the dedicated nurses some people do for hospitals.

[Larix]

You could try to pasture grazers on stone, and then assign them all as pets to ONE dedicated feeder, like the dedicated nurses some people do for hospitals.

Unlikely to work - you can't 'assign' animals as pets, you can only make them 'available' and hope they all get adopted by the same dwarf (beyond unlikely, not least because dwarfs only seem to adopt creatures of species they explicitly like).

The only grazers that can be directly assigned are those which can be trained for hunting or war - rhinoceros and elephant, possibly others? I quickly gave up on that idea, so have no proper sample, but they didn't seem to receive food from their assigned dwarf. Assigned work animals aren't treated as proper pets anyway (except from giving bad thoughts when their corpses are left to rot, while being barred from burial normally).

[codyorr]

Wasn't a problem in 31.25 as far as I could see. I went 10 years in one of many forts.