Nest Box Forbidding is broken?

[MIYUKI]

Have some birds laying eggs in them no issues multiple times.

Even tho the nest boxes are forbidden, dorfs come and collect the eggs.

I ended up turning off using eggs in cooking, and remove all egg storage in all SPs....

shouldnt need to do that tho, forbidding should be enough - no?

[ARRATHON]

I put mine in a room set the room as a pasture and lock the door

[Trollemancer]

Forbidding nest building does nothing. You need to physically restrain dwarfs from reaching the nests. I.e. blocked door or *figure it yourself*

[The Hate of Haters]

You need to forbid the egg, not the nest. Every time I forbid the egg the dorfs didn't try to cook it up and it allowed the bird to spawn

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by ARRATHON:

I put mine in a room set the room as a pasture and lock the door

^--- I do the same. It's really the easiest way, though it will prevent other birds from laying in other nests if it's a "coop." (Maybe individual rooms and nests would be ideal?)

[ARRATHON]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Originally posted by ARRATHON:

I put mine in a room set the room as a pasture and lock the door

^--- I do the same. It's really the easiest way, though it will prevent other birds from laying in other nests if it's a "coop." (Maybe individual rooms and nests would be ideal?)

I build two rooms, one for breeding and one for egg collection, with one nest box for each hen.
Thee or four hens will give more than enough eggs to feed your fort. The breeding is just for leather and meat.

[Strifeboy]

You have to forbid the eggs, but I just lock the door.

[MIYUKI]

Originally posted by The Hate of Haters:

You need to forbid the egg, not the nest. Every time I forbid the egg the dorfs didn't try to cook it up and it allowed the bird to spawn

derp, this is the way. Thanks!

now i have a new problem... can anyone guess what it is heh

I seem to recall in.... was it DFHack? Auto-Slaughter....

Yeah am missing that right now. Explosions of cats, dogs and Chickens oh my!

On the plus side, they make excellent disposable caverns explorers.

[Ghevd]

I tried the room forbid trick and I think my rooster was gay because there was 6 eggs in the nest box and a full year went by without even one of them hatching.

[MIYUKI]

Originally posted by Ghevd:

I tried the room forbid trick and I think my rooster was gay because there was 6 eggs in the nest box and a full year went by without even one of them hatching.

oof... i made a row of 10 boxes, the birds lay eggs all year round so it wasnt a problem for me. Well, now i have to deal with miasma because there is too much meat... but yeah