African Wild Dog (Or any Pack Animals Breeding tip)

[Kiyohime]

Challenge today is quite easy.
What I did, is I have two seperate African Wild Dog Habitat.
Started with a Pair each and let them breed. (Max research and advanced research is a MUST)
Also enrichment should be at 100% as much as possible.

Now after the ALPHA pair (male/female) produced their offspring. I either immediately moved the alpha pair to a quarantine, trade center, or swap to the habitats. That way the new alpha pair will breed. Rinse and Repeat. I have 50 dogs under 12 hours at max speed by doing this.

Hope this help on others, btw there might be better breeding methods.

[Krall]

Isn’t inbreeding a problem or you’re just trying to purely pump them out?

[squib]

In breeding is not really a problem if you are breeding up to 100/100/x/x, once you get there though, you have to stop it. In general you will do better however by not inbreeding at all. I hit the challenge goals in a day, by simply breeding up a 4X100 female and then just finding the best mate. She was having 4 to 5 pups per litter, I sold a bunch of females/males made 20,000CCs then just flooded the market last night with the rest at 100CCs a pop, they sold fast lol. Right now, they are pretty cheap on the market.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Krall:

Isn’t inbreeding a problem

Only if you're doing it wrong. ;)

Inbreeding is the best way to get size and longevity up to 100. If you overdo it, you get reduced fertility and immunity. But injecting fresh genes from time to time (meaning, adding an animal from the market to your breeding program) takes care of that.

[Krall]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Originally posted by Krall:

Isn’t inbreeding a problem

Only if you're doing it wrong. ;)

Inbreeding is the best way to get size and longevity up to 100. If you overdo it, you get reduced fertility and immunity. But injecting fresh genes from time to time (meaning, adding an animal from the market to your breeding program) takes care of that.

Originally posted by squibtard:

In breeding is not really a problem if you are breeding up to 100/100/x/x, once you get there though, you have to stop it. In general you will do better however by not inbreeding at all. I hit the challenge goals in a day, by simply breeding up a 4X100 female and then just finding the best mate. She was having 4 to 5 pups per litter, I sold a bunch of females/males made 20,000CCs then just flooded the market last night with the rest at 100CCs a pop, they sold fast lol. Right now, they are pretty cheap on the market.

That's very interesting. I've been doing it all wrong all along :D I'm on my 14th snow leopard generation and every time they mated I'd sell them all except for the one with the best genes and then find them a new mate from the market. All this time I still have about the same set of genes to work with.

[TaskeNeron]

Inbreeding CAN be a fast track to good stats but only if you are producing good stats to begin with. I avoid inbreeding, and in so doing I have a robust Tiger breeding program that is producing gold white tigers many of which have 80 in all the stats. To get the best results I find that having TWO breeding pairs you can swap every other generation, while going out of zoo for the other half.

Though, having a tone of CCs can help with skipping most of the hassle of breeding, just look for the highest you can in size and longevity and the other two will work itself out in a generation.

[hanseok21]

for those who wants to use just 1 habitat. if your female is pregnant, put the male out the exhibit to make sure he will not get older and wait till offspring and then put the male in again.

[Kiyohime]

Originally posted by Krall:

Isn’t inbreeding a problem or you’re just trying to purely pump them out?

just pumping them out for challenges. if its controlled breeding, I can manage.

Originally posted by hanseok21:

for those who wants to use just 1 habitat. if your female is pregnant, put the male out the exhibit to make sure he will not get older and wait till offspring and then put the male in again.

oh this one is good too.