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[Korva]

Well, that didn't take long. One of my buffalo cows munched through 6 tiles of "dense" grass in 11 days, maybe quicker as that was when I noticed it just now. 

[noob]

well this is off topic but how long do eggs take to hatch? does it matter if they are in the food stockpile or forbidden?

[dennislp3]

AFAIK based on what I read...they have to be forbidden (so no dwarf moves em) while in a nest and the animal that lays them has to sit on them until they hatch

[Girlinhat]

You can designate eggs in a stockpile, thus allowing you to have no egg piles (or maybe just one?) and thus all eggs are left in nests.  Unless you order some cooking, in which case...

[Korva]

I'm pretty sure they won't hatch in a pile. Left in the nest with the mother bird, it takes a few weeks.

[Virodhi]

Hrm. If critters in cages need to eat, then yes, this could be bothersome for storage, though I'm more interested in what this'll do to zoos. Any word on whether carnivores will starve? "What? No! The spike in children going missing around the same time the zoo lets the leopards out to eat is a complete coincidence!"

[Korva]

Only animals with the grazer tag require food right now. Chickens, ducks, dogs, cats (big and small) etc. can still be crammed in a cage and left there. Though I expect this to change, too.

Since cages used to be a good way to control a species' population growth, it is a bit bothersome.

[Sheb]

You still have the butcher's shop.

[mardukarn]

No one's brought up the fact that animals now get ornery and can fight and kill each other. I had a dog kill a rabbit (or two?) simply because I had them hanging out together in a statue garden. Not sure how this will work out. You need to give animals (grazers or otherwise?) enough space to roam around or else they get ornery and fight. So no more jamming 12 dogs and cats into the same cage?

[Korva]

Critters in cages don't fight. Yet? 

I hope the orneriness of animals will be toned down a bit if they get pissy merely by hanging out near each other. How big was your statue garden?

[The Scout]

Well, I had things bite and scratch and not do much damage, and then I had a rooster brutally murder a wild turkey trying to nest.

[xl 4ndre lx]

what do you think the likelyhood of keeping my animals alive in a freezing biome? Without hay production implemented yet what are my options for feeding them though the winter months?

[Korva]

Try it and post the results!

If it goes bad, you can make a pasture in the first cavern and see how that works out.

EDIT: Also, what kind of animals and how many? Horses, goats, pigs and bunnies are a lot less demanding that those silly water buffalos.

[xl 4ndre lx]

I have a yak and a camel, I'm at work now, I'll try making some progress tonight. If I breach the first cavern will grasses grow in my fort, like the way tower caps do?

[Bouchart]

So can rock nut press cakes be used as animal feed?