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[mrbaggins]

You can protect the pasture by putting walls around it, but can you roof over it?

Or will grass die/not regrow?

[G-Flex]

My favorite meat animal is the chicke--hahahaha who am I kidding, they don't even give you meat.

[PopeRichardCorey]

The grass does regrow.  It somehow hadn't even occurred to me that my overland farm-protection would work for my ranch as well.

[forsaken1111]

Now I wish that there were shavable, milkable, egg-laying animals.  Platypus Wool Vest?  Platypus Cheese?  YUM!

Someone much better at modding than me should mod in the Dwarven Yaktapus.

[Bouchart]

Most anything that can be milked or sheared.  I tend to butcher cows, yaks and buffalo quickly because they need to graze so much, but they all give a lot of meat.  Egg laying birds are great.  Oddly enough, I like elk birds too because they are rarely aggressive and fairly easy to hunt.

[forsaken1111]

Speaking of eggs, is there an easy way to have the dorfs NOT collect them aside from walling off the nests?

[Bouchart]

Speaking of eggs, is there an easy way to have the dorfs NOT collect them aside from walling off the nests?

Forbid the eggs.

[Sphalerite]

Don't have any food stockpiles that accept eggs, and disable cooking of eggs at your kitchens.

[PopeRichardCorey]

Most anything that can be milked or sheared.  I tend to butcher cows, yaks and buffalo quickly because they need to graze so much, but they all give a lot of meat.  Egg laying birds are great.  Oddly enough, I like elk birds too because they are rarely aggressive and fairly easy to hunt.

I want your Elk Birds.

(They're actually fine if you either don't build your free Nest Boxes on the surface, or don't have the path between the cavern and those nest boxes go straight through your fort.  Armok, my staircase was covered in blood...)

[forsaken1111]

Speaking of eggs, is there an easy way to have the dorfs NOT collect them aside from walling off the nests?

Forbid the eggs.

I said an EASY way.

Don't have any food stockpiles that accept eggs, and disable cooking of eggs at your kitchens.

Ah, I'll try that.

[Bouchart]

Most anything that can be milked or sheared.  I tend to butcher cows, yaks and buffalo quickly because they need to graze so much, but they all give a lot of meat.  Egg laying birds are great.  Oddly enough, I like elk birds too because they are rarely aggressive and fairly easy to hunt.

I want your Elk Birds.

(They're actually fine if you either don't build your free Nest Boxes on the surface, or don't have the path between the cavern and those nest boxes go straight through your fort.  Armok, my staircase was covered in blood...)

Have empty nest boxes on the surface but a bunch of serrated disc traps on the way up from the caverns.  The elk birds practically butcher themselves.

[forsaken1111]

Most anything that can be milked or sheared.  I tend to butcher cows, yaks and buffalo quickly because they need to graze so much, but they all give a lot of meat.  Egg laying birds are great.  Oddly enough, I like elk birds too because they are rarely aggressive and fairly easy to hunt.

I want your Elk Birds.

(They're actually fine if you either don't build your free Nest Boxes on the surface, or don't have the path between the cavern and those nest boxes go straight through your fort.  Armok, my staircase was covered in blood...)

Have empty nest boxes on the surface but a bunch of serrated disc traps on the way up from the caverns.  The elk birds practically butcher themselves.

Better yet, cage traps.

[Eric Blank]

Or place several separated nest boxes in the caverns (seperated individually or in groups and seperated from those used by your own pets), and locking them off, by pressure plate, after an animal has come to nest. You could catch several different species, including elk birds, crundles, and cave crocs, while filtering out creatures that don't lay eggs and denying those lazy animal trainers and haulers a chance to do something besides building a statue of you shaking hands with Armok.

I always used a modded dwarven swine creature. Produced milk, meat, leather, and females served as decent war animals.

Now I combine them with goats. I should get some sheep/alpacas instead.

[caknuck]

I had a nice musk ox ranch in .18. But once .20 comes out, I will be goating it up.

[SirAaronIII]

No love for alpacas? They're like llamas, but I think they're smaller. That must be why, I guess.