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The RNG graced me with a breeding pair of horses so I want to start raisign them for milk, cheese, and butchering. I've release the cavern spores for moss to grow underground.  So now how big should I make an underground pasture to feed my horses?  Would 5 tiles per beast be a good number or do they need even bigger pastures?

[clockwork]

I set them 10x10 for 2 to 4 animals but, I'm paranoid about them killing each other and/or attacking my dwarves. I also keep the horses separate from the yaks, etc.

[Jeoshua]

I usually set my animals in a 5x5 square of natural grass, with a fence around it and a locked gate to dissuade wildlife from entering it.

That's PER animal, mind you.  That way I get no fighting, and the spores can still spread between pastures.

[ahonek]

It also depends on the animal, and I don't know about horses. Some animals will consume one tile of grass per year, some probably one per week (elephants etc who can't eat fast enough to keep themselves from dying).

[Nidokoenig]

If these numbers are accurate, then you'll need 160 tiles per horse. Since grass grows back better if it's next to other grass, I'd advise putting each horse in a 320 square pasture and then removing every second tile in a checkerboard pattern, I have an AutoHotKey script set up to repeat right, right, enter, enter a few times for this. The animals will sometimes wander onto non-pasture tiles, but it'll generally keep them safe and fed.

[Dutchling]

1x1 tiles
natural selection: the strongest specie will survive and the grazing animals will either evolve to non-grazing animals or die.