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[Xgen]

Elk birds are potentially useful creatures, but being grazers prevent that. When elk birds lays eggs, they stay on it and refuses to eat. They end up starving to death before the eggs could hatch. Is there anyway to stop this (besides modding raws)?

[Derro]

The wiki says an elk bird can survive just long enough for her eggs to hatch if she's well-fed. I suggest creating separate pastures, or one pasture with controllable access to the nest boxes. Unfertillized eggs are still a problem, though.

Hm... will the birds continue to breed if they're undead?

[Pancakes]

The wiki says an elk bird can survive just long enough for her eggs to hatch if she's well-fed. I suggest creating separate pastures, or one pasture with controllable access to the nest boxes. Unfertillized eggs are still a problem, though.

Hm... will the birds continue to breed if they're undead?

One of the traits of being undead is that the afflicted creature is sterilized, so unfortunately that's not a viable solution currently

[Derro]

The wiki says an elk bird can survive just long enough for her eggs to hatch if she's well-fed. I suggest creating separate pastures, or one pasture with controllable access to the nest boxes. Unfertillized eggs are still a problem, though.

Hm... will the birds continue to breed if they're undead?

One of the traits of being undead is that the afflicted creature is sterilized, so unfortunately that's not a viable solution currently

Oops, meant to say 'brood'. English isn't my first language.

[PatrikLundell]

Given that undead are hostile to all life I doubt they'll stay. They'd most probably leave at the first sight of a target if not earlier, and would attack the hatchlings immediately if their undead cooling bodies would still function to heat the eggs until hatching...

[Daris]

Eggs do not have to be brooded nonstop.  The wiki says that if the mother is off the nest for even a moment, the eggs will not hatch.  My experience is that I can butcher the mother an instant after she lays eggs and 3 months later the eggs will still hatch.

[FantasticDorf]

Eggs do not have to be brooded nonstop.  The wiki says that if the mother is off the nest for even a moment, the eggs will not hatch.  My experience is that I can butcher the mother an instant after she lays eggs and 3 months later the eggs will still hatch.

The biggest problem with that is that besides from DFhack applications, there is no way to definitively know if eggs are fertilised in the first place.

[Fleeting Frames]

Sure, but it is not like your game plan changes too much if they weren't fertilized, only infrastructure will have to be multiplied - better luck next season.

[Daris]

Eggs do not have to be brooded nonstop.  The wiki says that if the mother is off the nest for even a moment, the eggs will not hatch.  My experience is that I can butcher the mother an instant after she lays eggs and 3 months later the eggs will still hatch.

The biggest problem with that is that besides from DFhack applications, there is no way to definitively know if eggs are fertilised in the first place.

That's less of a problem than juggling starving birds and brooding eggs, and no different from breeding turkeys.