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[Saiko Kila]

How long do chicken eggs take to hatch?

Several months, if a rooster fertilized them and the chicken stayed in the nest box all the time. The best way is to forbid the eggs in the nest.
If the eggs don't hatch after 2 seasons, they probably never will.

I suggest reading the Egg and Egg Production articles in the magmawiki.

I think they sometimes hatch later, maybe only if they were delayed by overpopulation. I had hatchlings after about an year, when goblins killed some bird baits. I still have 12 birds sitting there for 2 years, and will test it later to see if their offspring hatch after reduction of population.

[El Payaso Malo]

I cannot for the life of me get anyone to move this monkey corpse. Every one is flagged for hauling, I have refuse piles and corpse piles designated, but no one (including the soldiers that killed it) feel inclined to move it from the hallway where it was killed.

[Lord Shonus]

Is it outside?

[El Payaso Malo]

Is the hallway outside? The monkey is in a hallway. So, I don't think so.

Unless I have to put doors around to make it register as "inside."

[Zaphod]

I have 2 lizzards in traps sitting in my stockpile. How do I mark them for slaughter? What else should I do with them except have food made out of them?

[thatkid]

I have 2 lizzards in traps sitting in my stockpile. How do I mark them for slaughter? What else should I do with them except have food made out of them?

Last I checked you can't mark vermin for slaughter. Tame them and then sell them to the next caravan for a quick buck.

Is the hallway outside? The monkey is in a hallway. So, I don't think so.

Unless I have to put doors around to make it register as "inside."

I had this issue with several goblin corpses in my dining hall. Try forbidding the corpse, then ignoring them for a few (unpaused) minutes and then reclaiming them again. That worked for me, anyways.


This is probably better suited for the modding forum, but I'll ask here: The wiki says that goblins are able to take trolls as pets when creating a "Goblin Fortress", however trolls lack the various pet-related tokens. Is the wiki wrong?
Also, if I were to add [PET] and [TRAINABLE] to the trolls, would my dwarves be able to tame and train the troll captives that we got during a siege?

[Zaphod]

I set tame small animal in the kennel. Then it said there were no tamable animals around. I have 5 lizzards now. I'd prefer not to just dump.

[Music]

Umm how do i get the dwarfs to play the instruments?

[FuzzyZergling]

You can't, instruments are currently unusable for anything other than as trade goods.

[Music]

Aww so i can't make a band play to make everybody happy?

[Cthulhu]

Why the hell would you want happy dorfs?

[Music]

Because then they do stuff instead of hunting for vermin.

[Zaphod]

My lizzards are piling up. what do I do? Do i just dump the traps? My dwarfs seem not to be able to tame them at the kennel.

[FuzzyZergling]

Because then they do stuff instead of hunting for vermin.

Hunting for vermin is not related to happiness, it is related to hunger.
Dwarves will actually get bad thoughts from eating vermin.

[Music]

So they don't enjoy chasing rats? They should make more of an effort to keep themselves amused then by playing instruments. Silly dwarfs.

I think i need more food.