Silver bells are unable to breed.

[Dirty Old Man]

I don't know why, but all silver bells in my colony can't breed. In the job tab it says that it "can't work", as opposed to any other livestock. Strangely enough, I do have a single silver bell egg in my storage, so maybe they could at some point, but now they can't.

Does anyone know what's the deal with them?

[ephang]

They always cant breed as livestock.
If you want generate egg through time you can make it as resident and give them Bathing hobby.

[Iyasenu]

Yeah, give them a Job or Hobby such as Personal Pleasure, or Bathing if you want an NPC who can't perform the Breeding job as Livestock.
Though, I think both of those are a Hobby, unless you're a Mother or Prostitute, so you can't double up.
And maybe the Bathing job has a better odds of Egg than Personal Pleasure? I can't remember.

Anyways, they can produce eggs and fertilized eggs that way.
Heck, even for some species that can technically do Breeding, they'd probably have a better chance of eggs from Bathing, or something.

[MechanizedCheese]

go for bathing, I compared with them sleeping in a Rubynus bunk bed with cotton +3
for the personal pressure only gives 2% but bathing gives 18%

[pipey]

If your end goal to produce lots of eggs, better pick goat/chicken, silver bell or other with low breeding skills will almost not get you any eggs because of the low probability. But if it your end goal to breed a pet and companion get love potion (throw to the pet) or food mix with Excitement until they lay fertilized egg.

[MechanizedCheese]

Originally posted by pipey:

If your end goal to produce lots of eggs, better pick goat/chicken, silver bell or other with low breeding skills will almost not get you any eggs because of the low probability. But if it your end goal to breed a pet and companion get love potion (throw to the pet) or food mix with Excitement until they lay fertilized egg.

sliver bell's egg has a outstanding PER lv26, it's better to dedicate an entire base to produce the SB eggs than slowly and painfully eating other mediocre food to rank PER up

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by pipey:

If your end goal to produce lots of eggs, better pick goat/chicken, silver bell or other with low breeding skills will almost not get you any eggs because of the low probability. But if it your end goal to breed a pet and companion get love potion (throw to the pet) or food mix with Excitement until they lay fertilized egg.

I suspect the reason they want them to lay eggs is because Metal eggs have extremely high stat yields.

[Dirty Old Man]

Originally posted by MechanizedCheese:

Originally posted by pipey:

If your end goal to produce lots of eggs, better pick goat/chicken, silver bell or other with low breeding skills will almost not get you any eggs because of the low probability. But if it your end goal to breed a pet and companion get love potion (throw to the pet) or food mix with Excitement until they lay fertilized egg.

sliver bell's egg has a outstanding PER lv26, it's better to dedicate an entire base to produce the SB eggs than slowly and painfully eating other mediocre food to rank PER up

Yeah, that's pretty much why I want them. As I've mentioned I have one, and I need at least one more to make a dish I can clone.