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[noob]

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now how do i feed them

[agatharchides]

You will have to set a pasture zone. Press i, place the zone and let them do their thing.

[Ultimuh]

You will have to set a pasture zone. Press i, place the zone and let them do their thing.

Should pastures have grass?

[noob]

will they eat the weeds that keep growing on my clay?

[Icee77]

They eat grass, and maybe weeds.

[noob]

oh he had some sand on his mouth. he ate after i dumped him in the aquifer

[slink]

Be warned that yaks eat a huge amount.  One of mine starved to death in a pen with three rabbits which were doing fine.  I slaughtered the other one, which was also starving, before it could die, because no one would butcher the one that died already.  I wasn't very happy to lose my breeding pair of yaks.

In the raws, food consumption is as follows.  This is the value of [GRAZER], which seems to increase with decreasing need for food.  Yaks are second worst only to water buffalo.

Rabbit: 120000
Cavy: 75000
Goat: 1200
Sheep: 1200
Pig: 1000
Alpaca: 857
Reindeer: 461
Llama: 333
Donkey: 200
Mule: 150
Horse: 120
Cow: 100
Yak: 85
Water Buffalo: 60
 

[Girlinhat]

It appears to be like speed.  It determines how often they eat.  Notably, yaks eat very often, while rabbits eat infrequently.  Use water bufallo for clearing clay zones!

[MarcAFK]

Be warned that yaks eat a huge amount.  One of mine starved to death in a pen with three rabbits which were doing fine.  I slaughtered the other one, which was also starving, before it could die, because no one would butcher the one that died already.  I wasn't very happy to lose my breeding pair of yaks.

In the raws, food consumption is as follows.  This is the value of [GRAZER], which seems to increase with decreasing need for food.  Yaks are second worst only to water buffalo.

Rabbit: 120000
Cavy: 75000
Goat: 1200
Sheep: 1200
Pig: 1000
Alpaca: 857
Reindeer: 461
Llama: 333
Donkey: 200
Mule: 150
Horse: 120
Cow: 100
Yak: 85
Water Buffalo: 60

What the FRACK, there is no way a PIG eats a tenth as much as a cow, unless it['s a modern vareity that gets fed ultrahigh nutrition to produce 25 litres of milk a day, no medieval cow could possibly match that...
and if that is the case with the high food consumption of the dairy animals, yak, buffalo, cow etc... how does a horse eat almost as much but a goat eats vastly less?

[slink]

What the FRACK, there is no way a PIG eats a tenth as much as a cow, unless it['s a modern vareity that gets fed ultrahigh nutrition to produce 25 litres of milk a day, no medieval cow could possibly match that...
and if that is the case with the high food consumption of the dairy animals, yak, buffalo, cow etc... how does a horse eat almost as much but a goat eats vastly less?

I don't know about the pigs, but goats are pretty well known to be able to graze on land that isn't fit for cattle.  In fact, aren't they responsible for a lot of desert?

[MarcAFK]

a quick google tells me a lactating goat needs about 5 pounds of feed to a horses 15-25...
actually thats pretty close... and what i've found with cows it seems a cow making 20 litres of milk needs about as much as a lactation horse of the same weight... so i'll just shut my face

[agatharchides]

Has anyone tested if they still eat in cages?

[krenshala]

For those that haven't experienced it yet ... if you don't put the grazers in a pasture in time, they can still starve.  I lost my horse, then my water buffalo this way, and it isn't even mid-summer of the first year yet.

The Animal stockpile has an option to dump animals out of cages now, so if they do need to eat while in cages then this is probably the easiest way to get them all out at once.

[agatharchides]

I have rabbits I can sacrifice for !!science!!. I have four embark points, I said. Let's try a couple of bunnies, they can't do that much harm, I said. *grumble mumble rumble* 

[TheyTarget]

The Animal stockpile has an option to dump animals out of cages now, so if they do need to eat while in cages then this is probably the easiest way to get them all out at once.

I can see a horrible start of dwarfs carrying goblin cages past the lines of traps, the lava flood, and the maze of corridors to the inner sanctum of your fort only to let them free.