Feeding tamed panda?

[Troglord]

I managed to trap and cage a red panda sow and tame it, but it says its hungry? Do I need to pasture it or will it feed automatically?

[love]

Pasture zone -> assign animal.
If it's not tame, make sure to select it for taming via the livestock menu (and that you have an animal training zone).

You can add a rope and assign the animal to it, too, so that it doesn't wander off too far; but they try and stick to the pasture zone unless attacked.

[Troglord]

Thanks friend! :)

[vonsch]

If it's wild and you have animal trainers (best to assign it to one) they will feed it in its cage as they tame it. Once it's tamed it's safe to pasture. But taming wears off on wild creatures, so the animal trainers have to keep training it as it drops levels of taming.

[Troglord]

Good to know! Thanks again, great community by the way!

[Titler]

Pandas ONLY eat bamboo. I got one from trading with the elves, pre-caged and mine starved to death too, so I looked it up and it won't feed on normal pasture, you need to have bamboo underlying it.

[[MCG] Merrik Blackwater]

Originally posted by Titler:

Pandas ONLY eat bamboo. I got one from trading with the elves, pre-caged and mine starved to death too, so I looked it up and it won't feed on normal pasture, you need to have bamboo underlying it.

This. And its all 4 varieties of pandas (Panda, Giant Panda, Red Panda, and Giant Red Panda)

[Ghiron]

No bamboo = sad panda

[Duuvian]

I caught some wolverines (who become enraged and attack instead of flee sometimes) and I found a good idea might be to build a structure around the pasture with an exit with a series of cage traps in it. If you put an animal training zone over the pasture they should remain in the structure behind cage traps, in case the training wears off and the animal runs off from the pasture it will be recaptured by the cage trap without a dwarf chasing it around to return it to the pasture to escape again. If you catch a flying creature you'd want a roof on it. For egg layers you can put a one tile pasture over the nest box and overlap the animal training zone. I wasn't able to hatch out some kiwi eggs from the pair I caught doing that but I didn't have long enough before undead killed that fort; however they did lay eggs and the training was done on the nest box. I originally had the nest box in part of a larger pasture with a non overlapping animal training zone and the kiwi hen was leaving the nest box for training, (the hen tries to go to training but then goes back to the nest box after a few tiles of travel, repeatedly) so I lost the first set of eggs.

To be clear I'm not sure that it works, but it seems like it would unless training interrupts brooding even if the hen does not leave the nest box.