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[PatrikLundell]

I suffer from periodic birdsplosions in my fortresses because the dorfs just ignore egg collection. I've put that up to overworking and egg collection being a low priority task, but currently my fortress is trying to have an R&R season, so half of the dorfs are socializing (green). The wiki claims egg collection is a food hauling task, but a lot of my socializers have food hauling enabled and haven't moved their lazy butts to collect those eggs for quite some time. I haven't quite managed to stop work completely, as there's still item hauling going on to clean up after the mess the latest goblin invasion caused (slaughtering a dozen or so mercs, leaving their gear to be hauled off).

Edit: I tired of waiting, so I ordered the eggs dumped, at which dorfs swarmed into the animal pen to sweep up the eggs. As soon as they'd been dumped I unforbid them, but they're ignored, as are the new batches of eggs laid. And I've reached the stage where nobody is working, so it's not for a lack of workers. I've rechecked the settings on the food stockpile, and it does indeed specify eggs as one of the permitted categories.

Edit2: A new check showed the food stockpile somehow was set to take from links only...

[Kathe]

After your edit: I was going to propose to check if you had stockpile space/free pots.