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[Oliolli]

In my main fort I have a slight problem: massive amounts of animals (was about to reach a total of 400). Therefore I have begun mass-butchering animals, but I would like to know one thing: is there any reason I should spare anything else than grizzly bears and elephants (grazer-tags removed) from The Butcher? I believe I will need cats *shudders* to keep the vermins away, but anything else? Ideas, please let me know.

[Lectorog]

Keep a few non-eating animals chained up for watch, and weaponize anything possible. Make sure to keep the butchering industry unclogged, too; there will definitely be plenty of food.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Breeding species is a good idea--elephants breed once in a while and their children take nearly a decade to mature.  However if you're happy eating your bears, they can work

[synkell]

If you have dogs , you can place all your dogs into one cage. Let this cage be operated by nearby pressure plates , voila , dog bomb .

[GhostDwemer]

If you have dogs , you can place all your dogs into one cage. Let this cage be operated by nearby pressure plates , voila , dog bomb .

We had just started our attack on their fortress and were inside their main defenses when Griznak noticed a small wooden cage. "Hey, what's in that-" he said, right before fifty war dogs burst out of it, in ultra-slow motion. We were lucky. If it had been bunnies, we'd all be dead.

[Oliolli]

If you have dogs , you can place all your dogs into one cage. Let this cage be operated by nearby pressure plates , voila , dog bomb .

Bah! Who needs dog bombs when you have... Grizzly-Elephant -bombs!

[JmzLost]

Keep a couple of goats or sheep for wool in case a moody dwarf demands yarn.  Stuff all non-grazers in a single cage and butcher them at your leisure.  Maybe keep a few birds for making egg roasts, but food probably won't be an issue any time soon. 

JMZ

[Oliolli]

May be a problem there. My save has been started during 0.31.14, so no birds or sheep.

I think I have modded bear skin to act as yarn-cloth, but I cant be sure if it worked.

Also, I have removed the grazer-tag from... everything... My area isn't very grazer-friendly.

[ledgekindred]

I "only" have 150 animals - as many as I have dorfs - and they are all completely useless.  I slaughter whatever I can, but a huge percentage are pets, which means I can't slaughter them, and they are breeding as fast as my butchery pipeline can go.  (I currently have over 4000 prepared meals and still 1500 meats even with legendary chefs and three kitchens and a constant queue of making lavish meals...)  And there are things like bunnies and birds which are pretty useless to slaughter since they don't really give you much of anything.

So I pen them up outside the fort to act as an emergency warning system.

I've gotten rid of dozens of bunnies and birds like this.  I try to keep a breeding pair of rabbits though since they breed like ... well you know. 

You can station a pen underneath a drawbridge and atom-smash them too.

[wuphonsreach]

Always slaughter the female animals first so that they don't go and have litters / foals / calfs...

[Dwarftosser]

I've begun meeting migrant waves at the door with meat cleaver in hand, if it needs to graze, it's more useful to me as a pair of boots.