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Lightfoot

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The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« on: February 17, 2016, 08:49:51 pm »
Got some giant hamsters today. Yippee. Got myself a breeding pair. Initially I was going to just use them as specimens for my zoo as the wiki says that you can't breed them, but I discovered otherwise (Gonna have to edit it soon). Giant hamsters don't live very long (3-5 years), but I discovered a great mitigating factor when my hamsters produced their first "baby". It turns out that giant hamsters give birth to full size, fully grown adult young. So I think my dwarfs will be dining on copious amounts of giant hamster meat for the foreseeable future. But unfortunately they don't seem to give me hooves as the wiki says. :( Though they sometimes give teeth, so yay.

So if you can capture giant hamsters, getting a breeding program going might not be a terrible idea.
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khearn

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Re: The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2016, 09:24:32 pm »
Quote from: Lightfoot on February 17, 2016, 08:49:51 pm
It turns out that giant hamsters give birth to full size, fully grown adult young.

That has got to hurt!
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Quote from: KodKod on March 28, 2012, 01:54:24 pm
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Re: The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2016, 09:27:23 pm »
Quote from: khearn on February 17, 2016, 09:24:32 pm
Quote from: Lightfoot on February 17, 2016, 08:49:51 pm
It turns out that giant hamsters give birth to full size, fully grown adult young.

That has got to hurt!

eh think of the kiwi, they could just be REALLY stretchy
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khearn

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Re: The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2016, 10:48:07 pm »
People in New Zealand give birth to adult sized children? I never knew that!
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Quote from: KodKod on March 28, 2012, 01:54:24 pm
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PatrikLundell

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Re: The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2016, 04:11:57 am »
And I bet you didn't know kiwis have vestigal wings as well...

The wiki page both says giant hamsters are breeding and that they are not (an errors shared with several other pages). It does not, however, say the offspring are adult. If the offspring are adult at birth they're not ideal for breeding because that would mean they cannot be fully tamed, and thus you'd have to assign the offspring for training everytime new ones are born.
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Saiko Kila

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Re: The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2016, 06:05:29 am »
Quote from: khearn on February 17, 2016, 10:48:07 pm
People in New Zealand give birth to adult sized children? I never knew that!

Maybe that's why first Europeans found the stature of Maori most impressive. All that just because of some slip in raws.
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FantasticDorf

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Re: The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2016, 08:38:05 am »
Giant Hamsters have thier entire raws ripped directly from minature vermin hamsters (seriously vermin needs some kind of raw update, or functionality)

So because vermin hamsters breed full size (so do squirrels if i remember correctly but i forget, all the raw's can be found in ANIMAL_OTHER) so do the giant variations.

As long as a male/female caste exists this is possible. How to orchestrate actual vermin breeding is a topic for another time.
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Re: The finer points of breeding giant hamsters
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2016, 09:32:29 am »
You got to make a 5z tall pit onto serrated weapon traps to get many pieces to butcher thus increase giant hamster leather to fashion your dwarves in this season.
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