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[iofhua]

My parent civ has peregrine falcon eggs that I can take with me at embark. Can I hatch these in a nestbox, or will they be only a food item? Sadly they don't have the actual animal in the animal list.

They also have giant peregrine falcon eggs. Are giant peregrine falcons worth raising? (if I can hatch them?)

[GhostDwemer]

Eggs can only be hatched by the parent sitting on them continuously. Eggs that get removed from a nest box for any reason will never hatch.

[draeath]

Eggs can only be hatched by the parent sitting on them continuously. Eggs that get removed from a nest box for any reason will never hatch.

Translation: no. Eggs you trade or bring on embark are already "dead" and are suitable for use as food only.

If you want to breed them, you need at least a mating pair of the animals. Pasture them somewhere and build nest boxes in the pasture. Forbid the nest boxes (or otherwise prevent access by dwarves) and laid eggs will eventually hatch.

[iofhua]

Blast! I was hoping I could take falcons instead of cats. Oh well.

[Badger Storm]

If it's any comfort, a) breeding requires the animals to touch and b) male animals can be neutered now, so catsplosions aren't nearly the problem they apparently were in the past.

[Astrid]

There's still a small chance that the next caravan(s) shows up with life peregrine falcons.
After all their eggs need to come from somewhere.

[PatrikLundell]

I think that is only if the "next caravan" is an elven one. It seems dwarves only bring the creatures domesticated by dwarves, which should be the set available on embark, and I don't think I've ever seen human caravans bringing anything interesting.

[Astrid]

That's true Patrik, but if they havent domesticated them, why are they selling their eggs?
I admit i never checked if they sell eggs at start of pets they dont own.
It just seems logical to me.

[§k]

The egg is animal product. It's a cooking ingredient as well as various exotic blood and ichor.

[PatrikLundell]

Well, egg collection from nest raiding has been used by humans long before domestication was introduced, and supplemented the food supply into modern times, so I suppose the dorfs are using that method.