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[Loci]

I embarked with a group of puppies and performed a few basic breeding tests.



From right-to-left, the dogs were:

1) pastured
2) male caged
3) female restrained
4) both restrained
5) female caged
6) both caged
7) separated by fortifications
8 ) swimming (4/7 water)

All puppies were made fertile using the fixster script. Once they grew to adulthood, dogs in 1-4 were capable of breeding, dogs in 5-8 were not. Notably, males in cages can breed, and females swimming cannot.

[Bearskie]

Good science  .  2 came a bit of a surprise.

[vanatteveldt]

I've done a lot of turkey breeding in df2012, and for me 7 is the surprising one: it used to be that a male being on the map somewhere would be enough, I guess that has changed?

Not sure whether you updated the wiki based on this info, but it seems to match the current wiki content perfectly:

"When a compatible male and a female of the same species are present on the map, sooner or later they will breed. To do so, they will need to be situated on adjacent tiles. Breeding can be prevented by gelding males, separating males and females, caging females, or while (non-aquatic?) creatures are swimming. Caged males are still capable of breeding, assuming the female can approach the cage." (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Breeding)

[Pirate Santa]

I've done a lot of turkey breeding in df2012, and for me 7 is the surprising one: it used to be that a male being on the map somewhere would be enough, I guess that has changed?

Not sure whether you updated the wiki based on this info, but it seems to match the current wiki content perfectly:

"When a compatible male and a female of the same species are present on the map, sooner or later they will breed. To do so, they will need to be situated on adjacent tiles. Breeding can be prevented by gelding males, separating males and females, caging females, or while (non-aquatic?) creatures are swimming. Caged males are still capable of breeding, assuming the female can approach the cage." (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Breeding)

"Spore Breeding" was removed for the new adjacent breeding system last year, it was in the dev notes of the release.