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[Oldin]

I was just wondering if anyone here has some nice tips for how to contain their breeding livestock. Cows, mules, donkeys, muskoxen and camels are nothing but meat sources currently, as far as I know. So what would be the best way to contain those animals so they wont be frolicking around in your Legendary Dining Room.

So far, the best I have come up with is to keep enough breeding pairs free, in the Dining Room, and immediately cage any and all offspring they produce. Slaughtering as the need arises.

[Joutilas]

I'm not sure if this is the perfect method, but here is what I have done lately:

I've dug separate rooms for each animal. Big enough, so that I can put the breeding pairs in the middle of the room in restraint, while still having space in between the restraint and the wall (2 blocks). Then the room is sealed with a door that is set "tightly closed" and the breeding pairs are brought in.

As they reproduce, their offspring (being free of restraint) will try to get out from the door, hugging the wall.

So what I do next, is simply setting the door forbidden and digging a doorway on the opposite side of the room. This way the dwarves can come in and take the animals for slaughter without releasing them to the fortress itself.

And as a bonus you don't need to restrain any animals 'cept the breeding pairs.

Creatively placed animal "barn" can also cause hilarious situations:
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=24088.msg294561#msg294561

[Spoggerific]

So what I do next, is simply setting the door forbidden and digging a doorway on the opposite side of the room. This way the dwarves can come in and take the animals for slaughter without releasing them to the fortress itself.

This causes FPS problems for me, because animals always try to go to the meeting hall. They'll try to path there every single tick, but they can't find a path. Next tick, they have nothing to do, so they try pathing again, but it does no good. This, obviously, causes some FPS problems. I may have done something wrong, however...

[Kidiri]

This causes FPS problems for me, because animals always try to go to the meeting hall. They'll try to path there every single tick, but they can't find a path. Next tick, they have nothing to do, so they try pathing again, but it does no good. This, obviously, causes some FPS problems. I may have done something wrong, however...

You could always designate a meeting area in the barns. However, make sure that the doors are forbidden or else your dwarves might end up friends with everyone and all of the animals adopted.

[Hoborobo234]

Butchers prepare your stations.

  Kitten has been struck down X 10

[Tormy]

I was just wondering if anyone here has some nice tips for how to contain their breeding livestock. Cows, mules, donkeys, muskoxen and camels are nothing but meat sources currently, as far as I know. So what would be the best way to contain those animals so they wont be frolicking around in your Legendary Dining Room.

So far, the best I have come up with is to keep enough breeding pairs free, in the Dining Room, and immediately cage any and all offspring they produce. Slaughtering as the need arises.

Just build a room [or more rooms] for your animals. Keep them there, let them breed etc. Your fortress won't look like a zoo after that. 

[kurisukun]

Your dwarves eat meat?

*shoves some more plump helmets down their throats*

[Tcei]

Best way I've found so far is to set up a room with two entrances, one that's close to the meeting area and one that is far away.
Like this

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XXXXXXXXXXXXMMX
XXXXX......XXX....X
X...D........D..D....X
X..XXX.......XXX....X
X...XXXXXXXXXX....X
X............D....X
XXXXXXXXXXXX....X
D=dorrs and the X's are walls, MM is the direction the meeting hall is in.
Keep all the doors tightly closed and set up a restricted area for the closest doors to to the meeting hall and High traffic for the furthest. The dwarves will travel throu the farthest doors to get the animals while the animals will all bunch up next to the closest door.

[Oldin]

Your dwarves eat meat?

*shoves some more plump helmets down their throats*

Not so much, but the Leather and Bones not to mention Tallow are a nice bonus.

[Slappy Moose]

Kitten has been struck down X 10

10?

More like 89.

[Yourself86]

I'm not sure if this is the perfect method, but here is what I have done lately:

I've dug separate rooms for each animal. Big enough, so that I can put the breeding pairs in the middle of the room in restraint, while still having space in between the restraint and the wall (2 blocks). Then the room is sealed with a door that is set "tightly closed" and the breeding pairs are brought in.

That's the best thing i've come up with too. But i prefer to chain one male and a variable number of females. The number of females depends on the total number of animal types i want to keep for mating. Usually i end up having 4-6 animal types. Three females works best with this. I tried four females at one point but that way you have to constantly pause the game to cage the resulting offspring.

As for the cages: an extra room outside the pens for cages will shorten the way your dwarves have to haul the little animals. The doors leading to his room from the rest of your fortress should kept tighly closed as well as caged animals designated for slaughter will be un-caged and head to the meeting area.

As they reproduce, their offspring (being free of restraint) will try to get out from the door, hugging the wall.

Offspring stays with the mother until they mature.

[chris_acheson]

You can just stick all your animals in one cage, if you want.  They'll still breed, as long as there's another animal of the appropriate type in there to breed with.

Oddly enough, newborn animals will show up outside of the cage, so you'll have to assign them whenever you see a birth announcement.

[Hishan]

I didnt think animals bred in cages???

Anyway even if the do its a bit 'sploity.

I just pit all my animals, a seperate pit for each animals thats accessible by a forbidden door below. If you need meat just open door and hey presto. If any escape just pit them again.

Doesnt work with cats though. I just use my pet killer for that.

[Pilsu]

Animals give birth in cages but they don't become pregnant