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[Varnifane]

I have four Water Buffalo Bulls. Three of them are skinny and the last one is gigantic.

I want to butcher the three skinny ones, but how do I select those specific ones for butchering and not the gigantic ones?

[Telgin]

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure this is in their preferences screen.  So 'v' key, target the victim for slaughter, then hit I think 'p' to go to the preferences screen then 's' to mark them for slaughter.  The butcher should take care of the rest for you.

[vadia]

there's no meat difference, is there?

[Loud Whispers]

there's no meat difference, is there?

From what I gather from the animal eugenics thread and the zombie bacon thread, bigger animals give more meat.

[i2amroy]

there's no meat difference, is there?

From what I gather from the animal eugenics thread and the zombie bacon thread, bigger animals give more meat.

This right here, though as attribute changes are percent based having more muscular/larger animals will give you a bigger bonus if you are using a naturally large creature (like water buffalo) as opposed to naturally small creatures (like rabbits).

[Urist_McGamer]

there's no meat difference, is there?

From what I gather from the animal eugenics thread and the zombie bacon thread, bigger animals give more meat.

Zombie bacon thread? Please, do enlighten me.

[Loud Whispers]

there's no meat difference, is there?

From what I gather from the animal eugenics thread and the zombie bacon thread, bigger animals give more meat.

Zombie bacon thread? Please, do enlighten me.

Maximizing slaughter gains

[Sutremaine]

I did some testing on elephants back in 31.25 and found that weight was a better indication of returns than description was. If Animal A is skinny and Animal B is muscular but Animal A weighs twice as much, then Animal A may give more meat simply through having more mass to go around. The differences will be less pronounced with a creature as relatively small as a water buffalo.

...You should probably butcher all four water buffalo anyway. Water buffalo need about a zillion times more space than sheep or goats, but they don't produce anywhere near a zillion times more food, leather, and craft materials. They're also horribly inefficient for any jobs that use stacks of bone instead of individual bones in a stack, but admittedly this doesn't come up often.

[Urist_McGamer]

there's no meat difference, is there?

From what I gather from the animal eugenics thread and the zombie bacon thread, bigger animals give more meat.

Zombie bacon thread? Please, do enlighten me.

Maximizing slaughter gains

Thanks. I sometimes like to think of the Bay12 forums like a !!scientific journal!!, where the dwarfiest of dwarves publish their papers on !!science!! (and sometimes just science).

[Varnifane]

Thanks all.

I'm not seeing a preferences screen, but I'm going to slaughter them all.  This is my first time with water buffalo, and as Sutremaine suggested, their eating/space requirements are troublesome.

[Quietust]

I'm not seeing a preferences screen

It's not strictly a screen, but a section within View Unit mode - "v" to put the cursor in View mode (which should display "g:Gen i:Inv p:Prf w:Wnd z:St"), "p" to select the 'Prf' section (the one that normally contains the "Labor" and "Work Animals" options for Dwarves), then "s" to toggle "Ready for Slaughter", exactly as Telgin described.