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[Natti]

So, recently I've lost 2 animals (yak calf, horse foal) in an underground above ground pasture due to various injuries.
The yak calf was beheaded and the horse foal suffocated.
Are they really fighting in the pen? Yes, they are. Why are they doing it?
EDIT: Seems that the horse foal started by kicking a water buffalo. An alpaca and the other animals joined in (including bunnies, horses, yaks and buffalos) and killed the horse foal.
What is wrong with them??!!

[rojiru]

Sometimes I brush it off as playful animal romping like you see irl cats/dogs do, and I see it all the time in game and no injuries ever occur so I shrug it off.

[Pan]

Pasture is too small. Make it bigger, or make relocate some animals to another (reasonably large sized) pasture. Animals fight if they are all squashed up together.

[Urist McGyver]

Sometimes I brush it off as playful animal romping like you see irl cats/dogs do, and I see it all the time in game and no injuries ever occur so I shrug it off.

Problem is

The yak calf was beheaded and the horse foal suffocated.

[Natti]

The pasture is 22x11 blocks. Too small? I doubt it.
I've had smaller pastures without problems.

[Mister Always]

It's bloody simple. You need a large pasture. If your animals are fighting, you need a large pasture, or more than one pastures.

Or just keep bees.

[noob]

why are they fighting in my 914 tile pasture? they keep standing on each other even though there are 8 empty tiles surrounding most them

[rojiru]

Just a coding thing. Even if you have the largest possible pasture the creatures are coded to start grazing in a particular fashion which always clumps them together. It's a brand new feature so I'm surprised that people are surprised that it has bugs.

[dieffenbachj]

I had a yak and a sheep fight in one pasture...

They kicked each other's feet off. Like, both of their left hooves were gone and they had to hobble along.

But yeah. I definitely think we either need the ability to make pastures larger and have the animals clump less.

I also, on the same map, had a massive, max-size pasture for holding only my chickens. I thought that they'd maybe spread out, but nope--they all crowded in the southwest corner of the pasture, and the floors ran red with baby chicken blood as they clawed and pecked each other, one by one, to death.

"Come on guys, if you f***ing hate being near each other, there's more than 6 square you are allowed to be standing in!"

Animal handling IMHO is still harder than it's worth. A little more polish and it'll be great.

[Mister Always]

Idea: make ropes, build ropes in pasture zones, assign animals to ropes, spaced far enough away from eachother to not cause infighting. It may be a bit silly, but if you're keeping hairy animals, why not put their wool to use in making rope? Somebody try this.

[slink]

Why not make several smaller pastures instead of one large one, and separate the livestock if they are fighting?   

[Mister Always]

Why not make several smaller pastures instead of one large one, and separate the livestock if they are fighting?   

WHY NOT TIE YOUR ANIMALS UP WITH ROPE. COME ON.

...yeah, separate pastures would work too.

[Urist McGyver]

Why not make several smaller pastures instead of one large one, and separate the livestock if they are fighting?   

WHY NOT TIE YOUR ANIMALS UP WITH ROPE. COME ON.

...yeah, separate pastures would work too.

Because some animals graze so much that the 3x3 space round it would dissapear in a minute.

[Mister Always]

Why not make several smaller pastures instead of one large one, and separate the livestock if they are fighting?   

WHY NOT TIE YOUR ANIMALS UP WITH ROPE. COME ON.

...yeah, separate pastures would work too.

Because some animals graze so much that the 3x3 space round it would dissapear in a minute.

Good point. Should work for the smaller animals, though (chickens, any other sort of fowl, and I think sheep or goats would be fine as well, not yaks or cows or water buffalos).

[Girlinhat]

Birds don't eat.  Cage those suckers.