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[tfaal]

No, to get more meat, you need stronger cows. Fatter cows will get you more tallow. I haven't tested it yet, but have you tried making a cow exercise pool?

[Krumbs]

Is there any way to breed certain animals other than killing all but two? It's not as if you can lock two black dogs in a room and hope they mate, what with spores and all that stuff.

[PopeRichardCorey]

Is there any way to breed certain animals other than killing all but two? It's not as if you can lock two black dogs in a room and hope they mate, what with spores and all that stuff.

Cages will prevent further spores from emerging from the creature or arriving at it.

[loser]

Is there any way to breed certain animals other than killing all but two? It's not as if you can lock two black dogs in a room and hope they mate, what with spores and all that stuff.

Cages will prevent further spores from emerging from the creature or arriving at it.

This was an often disputed, but nonetheless verifiable fact in the last version.

Are we certain that caged creatures still do not produce or receive spores?

[Caesar]

Why does this thread make me picture the suicidal super-sheep from worms? But then more.. Cowlike.

[Canalan]

What about the mad cows from worrms?

[beorn080]

Interestingly, incest in breeding programs is fairly common. Keeps random factors to a minimum while reinforcing the positive traits.

Don't try controlled breeding with any wagon pulling critter, since the caravans can throw things off. Would be an interesting experiment,

[rdwulfe]

Don't try controlled breeding with any wagon pulling critter, since the caravans can throw things off.

So.. your fortress is an incestuous animal brothel for the caravans?



Nice. I'm beginning to think I should charge the traders for merely visiting.

Spoiler: Yes. I went there. (click to show/hide)

Dwarven Merchandise and Donkey Show!
Inquire within.

[azrael4h]

Don't try controlled breeding with any wagon pulling critter, since the caravans can throw things off.

So.. your fortress is an incestuous animal brothel for the caravans?



Nice. I'm beginning to think I should charge the traders for merely visiting.

Spoiler: Yes. I went there. (click to show/hide)

Dwarven Merchandise and Donkey Show!
Inquire within.

Probably why the elves like trading with dwarves. For the brothels.

[The Architect]

RNG: very fast, or I wouldn't have noticed and investigated.

By the way, all, in case it wasn't perfectly clear: fatness and muscularity are from birth, and increasing animals' stats will not change their DF genetics.

Not realistic, but then neither is never feeding your cattle!

[Itnetlolor]

Demonios cuidado... Por una vaca dotado de mayor velocidad y fuerza ha sido una seña para noquear a los malhechores... Ejecutar en el miedo cuando escuche:

SUPERCOW AL RESCATE!

EDIT:
Am I the only other person that thought of this upon reading the title?

Spoiler: Translated: (click to show/hide)

Demons beware... For a cow that has superior speed and strength has been knocking out evildoers... Run in fear when you hear:

SUPERCOW TO THE RESCUE!!!

BTW, does this cow calf happen to have a chicken for a brother?

[The Architect]

BTW, does this cow calf happen to have a chicken for a brother?

If so, I'd summarily execute it. That show was one of the forerunners of today's utterly worthless, annoying, and brainless cartoons.
That's a little harsh, it was not as cruddy as the new ones.

[The Architect]

Double-post. My opinion about Cow and Chicken may be invalid, it's only an opinion. However, that show signaled the end of several better cartoons' runs, and it was itself supremely annoying to me.

There is news in the science of breeding! A new descriptor:
"Just gigantic overall". I assume this means both fat and muscular. I really don't want to slaughter my small breeding stock to find out.

She is very muscular and just gigantic overall. Her hair is golden yellow. Her skin is brown. Her eyes are black.

Notice the changed order of the description. I think this is a significant new development in the science of cattle breeding, and I can't wait for Dwarf Therapist to catch up so that we can verify this scientifically!

[Itnetlolor]

Double-post. My opinion about Cow and Chicken may be invalid, it's only an opinion. However, that show signaled the end of several better cartoons' runs, and it was itself supremely annoying to me.

I don't mean to extend the derail any further, but the show was pretty funny and twisted in some parts, but the decline of cartoons came from bad attempts at replicating the formula that made these original Cartoon Cartoons (and other Nicktoons) rather entertaining.

I think it got really bad when there started to be hybrids of the Spongebob formula mixed with mad Cow and Chicken bacteria (with trace amounts of a Ren & Stimpy virus). It just wouldn't stop expanding and soaking, driving creativity into madness.

But yeah, I just couldn't help making the reference when I read the title and description. All that was needed was a purple super-suit worn by the cow to complete the picture. And some Spanish voice-over to make announcement.
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