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[pushy]

Actually, something rather peculiar just happened in my fortress.

I had a small collection of animals - 3 dogs, 2 puppies, 1 cat, 1 horse, 1 mule (migrant's pet), 1 donkey, 1 donkey foal (another pet of the same migrant) and 1 cow that I bought from the dwarven caravan. The horse has just given birth to 3 foals, even though it has nothing to mate with (unless it was impregnated by the dog or mule or (eww) a dwarf, as they're the only two male pets I had)

[Earthquake Damage]

The advice in this thread suggests animals still won't breed in cages, even if both genders are present in the same cage?

pushy:  Regarding the "immaculate conception," your animals can mate with wandering herds and wagon pullers and the like.

[ January 15, 2008: Message edited by: Earthquake Damage ]

[ShunterAlhena]

I have muskoxen trapped in a cage and one of them did give birth to a calf but since then nothing.

However, free animals are impregnated by spores than come with the wind. There is a recent forum thread recounting a rhesus macaque that has all broken limbs, brain damage and is down the bottom of a pit but gives birth to little rhesus macaques every year. This must have happened with your horse, too.

[Chariot]

quote:Originally posted by pushy:
<STRONG>Actually, something rather peculiar just happened in my fortress.

I had a small collection of animals - 3 dogs, 2 puppies, 1 cat, 1 horse, 1 mule (migrant's pet), 1 donkey, 1 donkey foal (another pet of the same migrant) and 1 cow that I bought from the dwarven caravan. The horse has just given birth to 3 foals, even though it has nothing to mate with (unless it was impregnated by the dog or mule or (eww) a dwarf, as they're the only two male pets I had)</STRONG>

female pack/wagon animals(like horses) belonging to you can immediately give birth as soon as a male animal from a caravan steps on the map. in the case of horses, some maps have wild horses which can also be bred with

[eltorre]

quote:Originally posted by Earthquake Damage:
<STRONG>The advice in this thread suggests animals still won't breed in cages, even if both genders are present in the same cage?</STRONG>

mmmhh... they will breed as usual in a cage... I have all my animals in cages (but cats) and they breed.

[Earthquake Damage]

Are you sure they breed in the cage?  I know that a pregnant animal placed in a cage will still give birth, but in past versions they never seemed to breed after birthing the current litter.