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[dakenho]

do dwarfs still milk caged critters? if they do, do they return them to thier pen?  my frame rate is crap atm so I am butchering and caging most of my animals but I would still like a way to produce cheese

[Psieye]

Not sure about cages, but I know that they'll do it with chained animals. I use 1x1 pens with a pet-forbidden door - that way they can't path. Dwarfs will drag them out of those chains and milk them and another dwarf will (as soon as they're out of chains, before they get milked) come to put them back.

[dakenho]

never done chaining before, is it one chain one cow type deal? more impotently can you do more than one chain in a square?

[Grendus]

I believe they will milk animals in cages, and they'll even put them back, but the milking and returning jobs are separate tasks. It's not unheard of for one dwarf to be hauling the cow to the workshop and have another dwarf trying to put the cow back. So you might want to put the cage next to the farmer's workshop.

[JmzLost]

1 chain/square, 1 animal/chain

Dwarves will milk animals in cages.

Don't worry about the "Urist McMilker cancels milk animal: Handling dangerous creature" message spam, that's just the milker trying to do the next job and realising the cow is still in the workshop from the last milking job.  Also, it might be a good idea to put the workshop near a meeting are, with the cage between them, so that there's less hauling when someone finally remembers to put the cows back in their cage.

JMZ

[dakenho]

thanks will just cage them, I would need an awfully big stable and milking room to use chains.

[Psieye]

But cages mean they're less likely to produce offspring. They only get exposed to reproduction spores while they're being milked, which isn't often. If you want that sort of delayed growth to your livestock, then cages are fine yes.