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[Sheb]

I can foresee a future where rock nuts are grown only as feed, being pressed to collect the precious press cake while discarding the gallons of oil.

[agatharchides]

I can foresee a future where rock nuts are grown only as feed, being pressed to collect the precious press cake while discarding discharging the gallons of boiling oil.

Fixed. 

[K17U]

Now I want to be able to ignite oil barrels and use them as catapult ammo.

[TheDistur]

I had some elephants. Must have neglected them in their cages too long. They were in the pasture a while and ate a lot but still starved to death eventually. Such a waste. Does it need to rain/flood for grass to grow back? It doesn't seem to grow back yearly or anything.

[TheyTarget]

So, I'm using the pasture feature to make guard posts for my war animals. Set up a few here and there, have constant war dogs guarding every important place. And it stops the hundred dogs from following the trainer. It's quite useful so far. Anything else cool people have figured out?

[arzzult]

You can use them to keep cats that haven't adopted any one yet in your food stock piles away from your cave spider silk farms.

[Xvareon]

At present, there is no animal feed aside from grass and moss.  And the only chance I see for animals to survive in a freezing biome is to dig like crazy to the cavern and lay pasture on all the moss and fungus there.

[xl 4ndre lx]

Well I finally got a chance to try it out.  It looks like animals will eat snow covered grasses until that runs out.  Then as soon as I dug out an open area in soil grass started to grow so I made a pasture underground. Then a cave croc. came to create alot of fun.  I abandon fort with two dwarves left unconcious.

[Flaede]

Now I want to be able to ignite oil barrels and use them as catapult ammo.

You can DROP them, though. That must be worth something, right? Then they do the boozesplosion trick, except that this time it's flammable.

[Jurph]

In the name of science, I think I'll plonk my water buffalos in separate pastures and see how quick they strip 'em bare.

I did some science, too, with the more reasonably-maintainable goats and sheeps (GRAZER:1200).  I pastured one each in a 2x2, 2x3, and 3x3 pasture area.  The grass was all dense when it started.  At the end of about 3 months of game time, the 2x2 pasture was almost entirely bare; the 2x3 was slightly more robust; and the 3x3 was still hanging in there.  It appears that grass growth is triggered by the presence of high-density grass, so your field will settle into one of two stable equilibria: stripped bare, or sustained growth. 

Small pastures are a hassle because of the tug-of-war problem, so for now I'm using very large pastures in soil layers, with a farmer's workshop set up in the field.  I like to set the entrance to the pasture area as a Restricted Traffic area, and designate a High Traffic area as a bypass, so that my dorfs don't trample the grass. 

I also did an experiment to see if muddying the grass had any impact on its growth, but I could not detect any difference.

[BlastoiseWarlorf]

Elephants cant even feed themselves, as they are unable to move fast enough to get more grass. Dalthras and Rhinos are JUST barely able to feed themselves