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[Uristocrat]

Bees do indeed nest on the sides of cliffs.

That is a honeybee colony and worker on the level above the water. The cliff goes up a further 4 levels. When do we get ropes to scale down cliffs for bee collection?

We're dwarves!  Dig a stairway down there

[Greiger]

They'll eventually stop starving.  I have water buffalo in the same predicament now and then.  They just don't immediately get full the moment they munch on a little grass like a dwarf would with food.  Every time they eat some grass it makes them less hungry by a certain amount.  A rabbit stops starving the first munch.  A water buffalo can degrass a 7x7 area before it is barely up above the hunger level again.

So yea, they'll stop starving as long as they have a steady supply of grass.  Just depending on the critter it can take awhile.

[Neowulf]

That was interesting...
I embarked with 10 hens, and built 10 next boxes in a row. First 4 that laid eggs I forbid the stacks, totaling 45 eggs. Come time for hatching, 45 little chicks all mobbed their mommy hens.
A chick just died of suffocating in the mob, seems like 5 of more of them were on the same tile.

[ikkonoishi]

That was interesting...
I embarked with 10 hens, and built 10 next boxes in a row. First 4 that laid eggs I forbid the stacks, totaling 45 eggs. Come time for hatching, 45 little chicks all mobbed their mommy hens.
A chick just died of suffocating in the mob, seems like 5 of more of them were on the same tile.

Check your reports.
It probably got its lung pecked out or something. Animals get mean when they are around each other too much.

[Neowulf]

Bah, logical explanations, and here I was hoping he implemented dogpile-type suffocations.

Just goes to show, keep your nestboxes spaced out and away from walls.

[BigD145]

Bah, logical explanations, and here I was hoping he implemented dogpile-type suffocations.

Just goes to show, keep your nestboxes spaced out and away from walls.

Corpses are off limits if we build a nestbox on a pedestal 10z-levels up, aren't they...

[Neowulf]

Can't butcher the chicks dead from overcrowding.
But that's a really nice idea if we ever get to butcher corpses that die from more than just butchering and hunting. Really, really nice...

[Another]

Probably that is a pure coincidence but as far as I recall fortress mode butchering went really buggy at about the same time adventure mode butchering was introduced. Half a year later it still is.

[Bouchart]

Are wild rabbits butcherable?  A bunch of their corpses are clogging up my stockpile and my butchers aren't doing anything with them.

[FuzzyZergling]

They may be too close to rotting to be butcherable.
How close are they to the butcher's shop, and are they on a refuse stockpile?

[Bouchart]

Yes they were on a refuse pile.  I tried removing the stockpile but that didn't help.  They were recently killed.  Thing is, I've been butchering wild horses and elk without a problem.

[Sphalerite]

 

Are wild rabbits butcherable?  A bunch of their corpses are clogging up my stockpile and my butchers aren't doing anything with them.

They may be too small to be butchered.  Your butcher won't touch a body or body part that is too small to yield any meat or bone when butchered.

[EmperorJon]

The problem I have at the mo is mass chickens. They all pile on the same piles... I mean, I put all the hens on nests and all the chicks just sit next to them. 10 minutes later, they start pecking and clawing the crap out of eachother.

Good news is the dwarves were offering 200% on leather backpacks.

I have several hundred chicken leather backpacks.

Long live the birdsplosion! (I even added it to the wiki)

[Scaraban]

Are wild rabbits butcherable?  A bunch of their corpses are clogging up my stockpile and my butchers aren't doing anything with them.

only things killed at butchershop or by hunting can be butchered

[FuzzyZergling]

Are wild rabbits butcherable?  A bunch of their corpses are clogging up my stockpile and my butchers aren't doing anything with them.

only things killed at butchershop or by hunting can be butchered

That is incorrect. Wild animals will be butchered if their corpse is in a refuse stockpile near the shop, they are not rotting, and they are large enough to provide meat/bone.