i need advice for animals

[Redmacinton]

Hey i could use some advice for the animals you start with/future animals, most of the time i just ignore the animals i got but the more i play the more i find out i need to have more kinds of them and work orders to get milk/eggs and what not.

[graalGGTV]

It's pretty easy to setup a meat, eggs and milk industry entirely using non-grazing animals, which means you can just randomly put them in a closed room with a pasture Inside your fort.

If you also want to get wool and such, you'll need grazing animals. Same if you want a wider variety of meat types for your dwarves.

I would recommend starting with some pigs and chickens, turkeys, or ducks if you want to easily have those industries setup from early on.

[Dirty_Curty]

I usually just like to start with 2 female dogs and a male dog, a breeding pair of egg-layers for poultry, and maybe a breeding pair of small "pet" types (bunnies or cavies). For the bigger animals that you can milk, shear, butcher, etc. I usually just go with whatever the game starts you with as your wagon haulers, and try to get a breeding pair with trading, since I'd rather use the points on items.

[pRaX]

Good old chickens and pigs are your friend.
They don't need to graze so you can house them under ground and they will give you meat, milk and eggs.

Sadly there is no convenient answer to the wool situation. At least none I know of.

[['w']]

H:Hey Toni my old friendo!

T:What's up Hank *oink*

H: You wanna come by for some scrabble and a pork rib?

T: *gulps* Henry oh my, you know I can't play scrabble that well with my claws.