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[HiEv]

As for maintaining your herd, simply wall off a pasture area with cage traps in/around it. Recatching your giraffes and training them should level your trainers and increase knowledge which will make the training quality of the animal better over time.

Actually, there is a bug currently that makes animals that you've trained remain immune to traps if they revert to being wild.

Bug #6002: Tamed animals that revert to wild state retain trap immunity

[ResMar]

There's also the fact that giraffes have ludicrous grazing requirements.

Anyway, I've pastured them, and my broker is now protected by a war jaguar, and I've assigned him specifically to all of them. Nonetheless, there are some semi-wild giraffes walking about, and he's idling. What to do?

[Shawarma]

Pffttt. I love the Masterwork mod solely for the reason that it adds so many new animals/creatures.

My war sauropods are the best watch dogs money can buy. Anytime something comes close they just stomp it's head and send it flying 1-15 tiles away in a stream of blood.  The exterior of the fortress is covered in blood streaks, many ending in bodies smashed into it's walls. Whether raccoons, gingerbread men, goblins, or orcs. They get smashed. Hill titan, whatever. Smashed.

Just looking at my fortress entrance reminds me of Jurassic Park.

[ResMar]

"The dwarves of so and so have attained general familiarity with giraffe training methods."

Making progress. On another note, they may be very difficult to feed, because two starved while pastured. I have a couple of ones that are fine, but the two remaining ones are both starving, although hopefully they will slowly recover.

[ResMar]

Ok, so I only have two that will probably survive, all but one of the others hit starving and has died, and the last one probably will too the way things are going. Apparently they have a hard time feeding themselves. Floor fungus is no worse then grass, is it?

Anyway, just got three +well tamed+ giraffe cubs. This might actually work.

[Panando]

One way to keep grazers fed is to allow them to allow a dwarf to adopt them. The dwarven slave will then feed the animal when it's hungry. I don't know how it works with war animals which have been assigned to a dwarf.

[Maxmurder]

feeding girraffes will be tough and they will be useless as guards/on chains. Mabe a large field and where they can stumble over the odd cloaked kobold or stampede an ambush... they will likely all die if any bowgobs show up tho. I usually write off grazers and butcher them... mabe keep a couple cows for mundane purposes. For war animals... i go with dogs, boars and giant creatures.

In my current fort i have a war helmet snake guarding my cavern entrence. It is a killing machine! its venom wreaks anything that comes through the doors... I lost a dwarf to one going farel but now that i have a dedicated trainer they have been fairly safe.

[ResMar]

There's also the fact that they take 10 years to mature. The only thing that appears on my map is cavy sows and giraffes - well, and necromancers. I have three necromancers stuck in my cage traps, and other in a pit.

The cavy sows are "guarding" my entrance. ae. they're preventing more important things from dying in ambuhes.

[Maxmurder]

If you have necros you could start a zombie pit. Then you wont need to worry about feeding them!

[Sabreur]

If you have necros you could start a zombie pit. Then you wont need to worry about feeding them!

Zombie war giraffes!?  Yes please!

[kaenneth]

I need to mod alot.

[ResMar]

That's not a bad idea, actually.