cattle

[blakea6809]

i lost buchered all of my cattle and i cant get any more.is there a way to get more cattle once there all gone?

[Black★Rock Shooter]

Yeah trade for them again like how your suppose to get more things. Use a trading port wait for the animal trader. On hard you don't start with any seeds/animals.

[Luke]

Trade for them. And don't do that, keep two cattle at all times so you have a sustainable supply. Don't just buy back one cattle, buy two for obvious reasons.

[Black★Rock Shooter]

Originally posted by PVT J.Pegasi3rdID:

Trade for them. And don't do that, keep two cattle at all times so you have a sustainable supply. Don't just buy back one cattle, buy two for obvious reasons.

Lol sometimes you wish those obvious reasons worked on the town when you have slumps in age gaps.

[TimberMeShivers]

Cattle is really an investement.Pretty much worthless until you max out the animal pen so they get butchered automatically and then they become pretty awsome.

[723rd C.A.T.]

Yeah I just keep livestock as they breed you'll reach the max for the plot and they will butcher the over flow.I ind of like raisng chickens becuase they are dual providers thanks to eggs and the butchered over flow. Set the slider all the way to the right that way only the overflow gets butchered automatically.

Of course sheep give you wool as well as mea and cattle gives you meat and leather.

Another thing you can do short of trading is build a new pasture and then transfer at least two from your existing pasture into the new pasture.

[Fix]

Originally posted by StridenPowers:

until you max out the animal pen

Hi! What do you mean by "animal pen"?

[blakea6809]

ok i built a trader how will i know when a animal trader will come?

[drakonz]

Originally posted by blakea6809:

ok i built a trader how will i know when a animal trader will come?

it will show message near your pannels that trader have come after that you just need to check trader whether or not he got the animals you need (there is multible different traders only one of them brings animals rest bring seeds or normal resources)

[DaftCanuck]

You dont need 2 cows or 2 sheep to get more of them. I only had enough for 1 cow when the merchant came and now I have 5. Each cow has a chance to reproduce. The "obvious" reason to buy 2 is not the case, since they do not separate them based on gender when you are buying them.
Although I must admit I too thought I would have to wait and buy a second cow, my sheep started to have babies, but they all got sucked up by a tornado. It was very surprising to see more cows than the initial one i purchased. Same with chickens, only need to buy one.
:) Hope that helps

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by PVT J.Pegasi3rdID:

Trade for them. And don't do that, keep two cattle at all times so you have a sustainable supply. Don't just buy back one cattle, buy two for obvious reasons.

This is not correct. You only need one to breed. Same goes for chickens and sheep.

[Gopniki☭Breeki]

Originally posted by 723rd C.A.T.:

Another thing you can do short of trading is build a new pasture and then transfer at least two from your existing pasture into the new pasture.

How do you transfer them to another pasture?

[City Builder]

Originally posted by swisspike:

Originally posted by PVT J.Pegasi3rdID:

Trade for them. And don't do that, keep two cattle at all times so you have a sustainable supply. Don't just buy back one cattle, buy two for obvious reasons.

This is not correct. You only need one to breed. Same goes for chickens and sheep.

Much like many things, there seems to be a lot of randomness to Banished.

In my games one sheep has always been enough to start up a new herd and will have a lamb in short order, same with chickens, but cattle on the other hand... I've tried it with 1 cattle and it died before it gave birth, so I tried it multiple times with 3 cattle and they too all died before having any calves. So I upped it to buying 5 cattle and finally they had a calf and my cattle production got off to a start. So for me thus far in the 90+ hours that I've played Banished I've had terrible luck starting with just one cattle but immensely good luck with starting with just one sheep on each of the game saves that I've played now.

[City Builder]

Originally posted by ∴Splinter Cell∴ ♣Dave♣:

Originally posted by 723rd C.A.T.:

Another thing you can do short of trading is build a new pasture and then transfer at least two from your existing pasture into the new pasture.

How do you transfer them to another pasture?

Set the other pasture for the same type of animal and assign a herdsmen. Then go to the original pasture and use the empty button and all the animals in that pasture will move to the other pasture that you assigned to the same animal and with a herdsmen.

You can also do the same thing only splitting them instead of emptying them if you have a minimum of 10 animals in the originating pasture and instead of using the empty button you would use the split button in the pasture window.

[jensenthecat]

My pasture is overcrowded 8 out 7 cows so they will not split, if I need at least 10. Do I need to build a bigger pasture? Seems logical, but it is "Banished"!

After checking I have found the total is back to 7. They killed one of my cows!! It is a farm
I guess.