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[rtg593]

I have my butcher shop on a diagonal off the kitchen, unprepared meat stockpile next to it off the same diagonal, no miasma spread. I order all the animals butchered at once, then order lavish meals prepared. Cook takes all the meat, most from the butcher shop, cuz he's fast like that, and cooks it all up real quick. By the end of several animals, most of the meat makes it to the stockpile first, but cook man is pretty quick.

Only miasma I've gotten current fort, I didn't realize my prepared foods stockpile was full, had a half dozen stacks rot in the kitchen. Bought out a caravan with meals a week later, suddenly more room ;-)

[GhostDwemer]

If you are getting miasma from your butcher shops, you are doing things wrong, and wasting resources. Garath speaks truth, if you have enough free haulers and stockpile space when you butcher an animal, you will never get miasma from butchering and more importantly, you will not be wasting food.

[RedKing]

I've taken to automatically butchering any animals larger than a sheep or goat. If they're young, I'll let them grow up first, unless there's just no grass to be had (or it's incredibly dangerous for them to do so).

Caged poultry is where it's at.

[Garath]

take dogs out for a month, put back in cage, year later, dogsplotion and butcher paradise.

[Bluehotdog5]

Let me get this straight, when I mark an animal for slaughter, the animal will be brought to the butcher where it is killed and chopped up. If I don't have enough haulers or free space in my stockpile the food will sit and rot at the butchers where miasma will form. And that it's ok to have an underground butcher as long as I have the stockpile space and haulers to avoid miasma from forming at the butchers. Did I get that right?

I'm also assuming the butchered meat will be hauled into a food stockpile. Will the meat rot in the stockpile if it sits there too long?

I have the butcher outside now in any case, and the yak has been butchered. Now instead of having a yak wondering around, migrants have arrived and I have a female Goat wondering around. I see no butcher option, so I assume I should look into feeding it so it doesn't starve (which i have yet to figure out)and using it for milk or something.

[Babylon]

Let me get this straight, when I mark an animal for slaughter, the animal will be brought to the butcher where it is killed and chopped up. If I don't have enough haulers or free space in my stockpile the food will sit and rot at the butchers where miasma will form. And that it's ok to have an underground butcher as long as I have the stockpile space and haulers to avoid miasma from forming at the butchers. Did I get that right?

I'm also assuming the butchered meat will be hauled into a food stockpile. Will the meat rot in the stockpile if it sits there too long?

I have the butcher outside now in any case, and the yak has been butchered. Now instead of having a yak wondering around, migrants have arrived and I have a female Goat wondering around. I see no butcher option, so I assume I should look into feeding it so it doesn't starve (which i have yet to figure out)and using it for milk or something.

First paragraph, yes exactly, second paragraph, yes it will go to  a food stockpile, no it will not rot, unless vermin get at it.

The goat should be butcherable unless she is someone's pet.  To feed her make a zone with i that has grass in it, then hit n to make it a pasture, then hit N (shift +n) and pick out the female goat.

[Bluehotdog5]

oh ok, she's in her zone now, and apparently she is someone's pet. Will she just graze on the grass and feed herself then?

[Naryar]

Dig your soil layers like crazy and pasture your yaks in a sufficiently large pasture, like 20x20.

[Bluehotdog5]

What do you mean by 'dig your soil layers'? I have assigned her a zone above ground, obviously since that's where all the grass is.

The only animals I have left are two dogs, a cat, and a goat, all of which are female. The goat is owned, the dogs and the cat are stray. I'm not sure what do do with the dogs or the cat. I have a hunter that never hunts. I could assign a hunting dog, but I don't see how.

[Babylon]

oh ok, she's in her zone now, and apparently she is someone's pet. Will she just graze on the grass and feed herself then?

yes,  but she will eat the grass all up eventually so watch to see if her pasture turns to all dirt, then she'll starve.

[Babylon]

What do you mean by 'dig your soil layers'? I have assigned her a zone above ground, obviously since that's where all the grass is.

The only animals I have left are two dogs, a cat, and a goat, all of which are female. The goat is owned, the dogs and the cat are stray. I'm not sure what do do with the dogs or the cat. I have a hunter that never hunts. I could assign a hunting dog, but I don't see how.

you have to train the dogs if you want to assign them, you do that by making an animal training zone, you do that with i as well.

[Bluehotdog5]

yes,  but she will eat the grass all up eventually so watch to see if her pasture turns to all dirt, then she'll starve.

Will the grass grow back or do they pull up the roots like some animals do?

[Bluehotdog5]

Oh apparently my ranger wasn't hunting because I didn't have hunting selected lol. Anywho, do hunting dogs give the hunter an advantage of some sort? I looked at the wiki and I still can't figure out how to train them. I have training selected on my ranger, I also have a kennel and a training field.

[AWdeV]

Go to the animals screen via z, select a dog and then use w for war and h IIRC for hunting. I've never done any hunting training, simply because "war" sounds more badass. I don't know the specific advantages but a violent canine by your side is always good against a beastie that proves just a bit tougher/more aggressive/has more mates than expected. A war dog works fine too for this.

[AdeleneDawner]

War dogs have better stats, but hunting dogs are less likely to mess up your hunter's kill. Hunters sneak so that the animals they're hunting can't see them; a hunting dog assigned to a hunter will sneak when the hunter does. War dogs don't sneak at all, and may spook the animals away.