Get the dogs to make more dogs

[Fleshbits]

How do I get my dogs to breed? I need a supply of dogs to stand guard, as my fortress has an ongoing problem with goblin snatchers taking my children in the night.

[Morkonan]

I know there are Books with Animal Breeding topics and those may raise those skills for the ones that read them or help Dorfs learn about those Skills.

Best I can come up with, which means you'll need a library to purposefully increase whatever the base-mechanics are there for that in the game.

[Johan 2.0]

Ensure that your breeding pair are on adjacent tiles, perhaps a 2x2 pasture to maximise inception.

[FlyingAllNight]

Gotta attach them to a dorf bedroom. Pref a married dorf couple. Dogs will see the act and should help your dog breeding.

[Turkish Hair Graft]

Yeah, they just need to be adjacent to each other and idle. There isn't a skill for breeding. 5% of all dogs are gay and therefore won't breed, keep that in mind as well.

[Deviant]

They just need to be male/female pair, and be accessible to each other, preferably in the same pasture. They do the rest.

Make sure you didn't remove the males balls.

[Ten4]

Ive never had a breeding problem i have the opposite problem where I'm drowning in puppies

[Thom293]

I have never pastured a dog. 3 females to 1 male will get the job done.

[FlyingAllNight]

Originally posted by Thom293:

I have never pastured a dog. 3 females to 1 male will get the job done.

and if that doesn't work also add a rock goblet.

[Haethei]

They do it automatically. On embark I usually bring 2-3 males and 4-5 females so they start breeding relatively quickly. Shove them in a pen/pasture together, I usually just leave them at the entrance to my fort for security. They don't need to eat anything, leave em wherever you want

It takes a while (it was winter by the time my first dogs had puppies) but it multiplies faster after those puppies become adults. They make good guard animals and work for bones/meat/leather/tallow when you need some

[Decado]

My god, I had the opposite problem. I had so many dogs i didnt have the manpower to cull them. Literal horde of puppies roaming the fort - reminded me of the time i had similar happen in Rimworld and lost control of my base when a horde of rabbits devoured anything edible.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Decado:

My god, I had the opposite problem. I had so many dogs i didnt have the manpower to cull them. Literal horde of puppies roaming the fort - reminded me of the time i had similar happen in Rimworld and lost control of my base when a horde of rabbits devoured anything edible.

The pre-pen "Chicken Farm" problem... Chicken Farming destroyed many RW colonies. :)

[[KKJ] drunken monkey]

*shudders* Yeah. For me it was turkeys, though. I couldn't butcher them fast enough. Luckily a trader came and I handed off all of the adults to him, then tried to control how many eggs could hatch. It didn't work, and the next trader ended up with a ton of turkeys as well. It was near-FPS death, but that's when I learned about Rocketman and GCmod (I think those are the right names).

[shoopy]

I'm working on getting them to stop lol.
And now it's poults too.

[FlyingAllNight]

Have you tried chaining them up next to each other? Worked for me and the wife.