Animal breeding

[Slimgravey]

So goats sheep and cattle im not having any issue with them reproducing. But my donkey stock always seem to fall short leaving my carts useless. Do i need to keep some donkey stock that doesnt pull carts for them to breed? Or do they breed even when they are working. I guess i figured they could do their buisness in the winter months.

[Sparhafoc]

Yep, both donkeys and horses struggle to increase in population; not sure when the game simulates impregnation, but if it's in winter and your donkeys are all out pulling carts rather than having sexy fun times in the barn, then perhaps that could explain it.

One thing you can do is make sure you have a high female to male ratio. Alternatively, just keep taming new ones.

[VA gamer]

Do you have 15 or more donkeys? That seems to be the minimum to self-sustain.

It may also be that the particular mix of donkeys you have are not optimal: too old, too many males. Check with F8 hotkey and tame/trade to optimize.

[Sparhafoc]

Originally posted by VA gamer:

Do you have 15 or more donkeys? That seems to be the minimum to self-sustain.

I second that, with the addendum that you do need to make sure a fair percentage are female. They're also still susceptible to old age death streaks where you might need to go grab a few more of their wild kin.

[Vinny]

If animals were sold by gender instead of being luck of the draw it would just about fix that problem.

[Slimgravey]

So to be safe about two stables for donkeys huh? Thats quite a bit. But i guess goats are obsolete after a while anyways

[VA gamer]

Donkeys attached to carts require no stable.

[onebit]

10 donkies worked for me. the reproduction rate is low (seems to be every other year), but they live a long time.

to get them up to 10 initially you can capture from the wild.

to reproduce you need 1 adult female and 1 adult/old male.

[killeregon]

Originally posted by VA gamer:

Do you have 15 or more donkeys? That seems to be the minimum to self-sustain.

It may also be that the particular mix of donkeys you have are not optimal: too old, too many males. Check with F8 hotkey and tame/trade to optimize.

Well i also set thhhe limit to 15 and hhave plenty of donkeys atm