How can I produce milk from cows?

[Sergares]

I want to produce bread as it seems to be the most efficient type of feed but for some reason it asks for milk so I investigated the milking shed and put it right next to a tile of 3 cows but I can't assign it to anyone, my first I guess I need to put them in a pen, but the only pens I can investigate are rabbit and sheep pens. What should I do? How can I get milk from cows?

[Catman]

Sheep can make milk too!

[Imhotep]

Wild/naturally-occurring cows are different than domesticated cows and can't be milked.

[Fatespinner]

In the game, there are a few things to understand:

1.Herding buildings (fence icon) do not require corresponding wild animals on the map. For instance, a cow ranch doesn’t need wild cow nearby to be built, and you can source cows from the forest (this is just a textual description; don’t dwell on the forest, think of it as summoning from void if that’s less confusing).

2.Animals buildings (cleaver icon) cannot utilize wild animals. Cows and wild cows are different; when a building says it needs cows, it means it requires domesticated cows, and having wild cows nearby won’t make it operational.

3.Hunting buildings (bow icon) can only utilize wild animals. Conversely, domesticated animals cannot be used in these buildings.


I was also confused at first, but I figured it out now.

[Sergares]

Thanks for all your answers, as I understand getting the cow pen is probably rng based since buildings seem to change every game and pens do not need to actually having those animals in the world, so I just had to domesticate sheep and ignore the cows.