Animal mating

[El_Severe]

I haven't quite sussed out how to keep farm animals. I always try to build a wall around a hay field and make an animal zone there. The animals eat the hay but don't seem to mate/reproduce. Isn't that the enter thing about keeping animals, is that they mate and increase your stock? Whats up with that? Am I missing something?

[Wiawyr]

First off, having animals eat live crops is terribly inefficient, they gain less nutrition from it than if it was harvested and prepared, even hay. Second, what timeframe are you working off of here? You won't be notified right away when the animals mate or first become pregnant, the notification comes up at the mid stage of pregnancy.

[Toasty_Tacos]

The first and most obvious thing is to make sure that your animals are not both males, or both females, the game will refer to a female cow as a "cow" and a male cow as a "bull".
Unless the particular animal ypur breeding dosen't differentiate from the two by name. Other then that Wiawyr is well versed in "Animal husbandry" then me so listen to what he said about it. If they still dont breed enable devmode and check the health menu and click the x that said somthing along the lines of hidden health def/diff it wilk show you if the animal is pregenent or not, i believe animals wont breed with already pregenent animals.

[Wiawyr]

Originally posted by Toasty_Tacos:

Other then that Wiawyr is well versed in "Animal husbandry" then me so listen to what he said about it.

Pffffft ahahaha

Originally posted by Toasty_Tacos:

If they still dont breed enable devmode and check the health menu and click the x that said somthing along the lines of hidden health def/diff it wilk show you if the animal is pregenent or not, i believe animals wont breed with already pregenent animals.

I believe the Animals Logic mod will also show you all animal pregnancies and the days remaining, even before notifications get sent to the player.

[ignis]

Originally posted by Wiawyr:

I believe the Animals Logic mod will also show you all animal pregnancies and the days remaining, even before notifications get sent to the player.

Nope. Animal Tab displays days remaining, but only when it is in visible stage.

[Wiawyr]

Originally posted by ignisru:

Originally posted by Wiawyr:

I believe the Animals Logic mod will also show you all animal pregnancies and the days remaining, even before notifications get sent to the player.

Nope. Animal Tab displays days remaining, but only when it is in visible stage.

Ah. Good to know.