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[targetstar]

really? what is the best animal to heard, like comparision that compared to the amt of grass they eat, and the amt of food, and bones, and other stuff they give

[XXSockXX]

Pigs and sheep. Pigs don't eat, so you can keep them in cages. Sheep give wool but don't graze as much as the other grazers.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Goats graze about as little as sheep, and give milk as well as wood.

[Mr. Palau]

I don't tend to shear or milk my animals, but I do keep herds of yak or water buffalo on hand in case of food shortage. My fortresses export food, so some meat to throw in with the quarry bush leaves helps the cook crank out meals.

[GiglameshDespair]

Poultry - particualtry turkeys - can easily feed a fortress through egg production. Let turkeys grow ful lsize, and you get leathers fro mthe large amounts of piults.

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[i2amroy]

Turkeys are best for food purposes.
Grizzly bears are second best in my opinion, since not only do they produce large amounts of food they can also be trained for war and assigned to your dwarves en masse, resulting in goblin ambushes no longer posing a real danger.

[BoogieMan]

Goats graze about as little as sheep, and give milk as well as wood.

Goats give you wood?   

[vadia]

Goats graze about as little as sheep, and give milk as well as wood.

Goats give you wood?   

Everybody knows that sheep can give you wood or ore.

Dogs are pretty decent.  no grazing, defending -- I think milkable (yuck) some meat

[Phlum]

I like alpacas, lots of meat and rather hard for bezerking dorfs to kill.

Goats give wool?

Pigs and sheep. Pigs don't eat, so you can keep them in cages.

THAT IS FKNG CHEATING!! no fun at all!

[Kaos]

Goats graze about as little as sheep, and give milk as well as wood.

Goats give you wood?   

Billy goats might, if you're into that kind of stuff... 

[Bognor]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Domestic_animal

Dogs.  They're not milkable or shearable but they breed fast, give absurd amounts of meat (possibly due to a bug related to their lack of hooves), help on defense, and don't need to graze.

Maybe add pigs if you want milk, and sheep if you want wool (pig tails are an easier source of thread). Turkeys are ideal for eggs, but blue peafowl are arguably better if you want bones and meat as well because they grow up quicker.

Unless somethings changed recently, goats and sheep both give milk, but only sheep give wool.

[sackhead]

i domesticated cave crocks once they are like 1000 turkeys.
just don't let the eggs hatch ,seriously watching your dwarfs trying to round up 600 baby crocodiles and put them in a single cage may sound like fun but his hell for your fps

[muzzz]

In my experience, the challenge in animal farming usually isn't getting enough return-on-investment. Rather, it's not getting too much of it.

[Avo]

I like alpacas, lots of meat and rather hard for bezerking dorfs to kill.

Goats give wool?

Pigs and sheep. Pigs don't eat, so you can keep them in cages.

THAT IS FKNG CHEATING!! no fun at all!

Nope, it's currently behaving exactly as toady intended.

[vadia]

In my experience, the challenge in animal farming usually isn't getting enough return-on-investment. Rather, it's not getting too much of it.

With bigger animals they graze pretty quickly in certain biomes -- in my scorching biome they graze like 16 tiles to dirt within about a year.