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[Koremu]

Odd question I know, but I've had some wild animals get caught in my Goblin Punchbag Collectors Cage Traps.

I can mark the creatures as to be butchered in the Z menu, but they don't get butchered. What am I missing?

[utunnels]

You need to train/tame them first (press t in the z menu).

[Loci]

Alternatively, if you just leave them in a cage they will be butchered when they expire from old age. (This only works for wild creatures; tame creatures must be slaughtered.)

[utunnels]

Alternatively, if you just leave them in a cage they will be butchered when they expire from old age. (This only works for wild creatures; tame creatures must be slaughtered.)

LOL

Dropping them into a spike pit is faster...but I get your point.

[NW_Kohaku]

You can also build their cage, and then let them go from there (possibly via lever), and let your military dwarves get a little practice. 

Butchery only happens with tamed animals, so if you have wild animals you want for butchery stock, then breeding a few and taming their children may be the best bet, especially if they're larger creatures that don't require grazing space.

[utunnels]

If you just want to quickly butcher it, check if you have any animal trainers first, then open the z menu, select the animal, press t, enter, then b.

After that, you don't need to do a thing as your dorfs will try to butcher it as soon as it loses its wild flag.

[Koremu]

Thanks all. I went with the "Military-Dorf-With-An-Axe" method.

Then I removed the cage traps. They were only a stop gap until the Steel Industry came online anyway.

Now I just have bits of Impala scattered around the outer perimeter weapon traps.