But otherwise did not sit on the nest box for a full season or more. A1) i noted that sometimes due to the fact that the removal of the activity zone was done haphazardly, it caused some of the grazing elk birds to move over the top of the nest box. Which centered around removing the nest boxes from the Nest Box tiles from the Pasture activity zone after fertile eggs had been laid.Įxperiment fort 1: A1) One Set of Elk birds that stayed on the nest box the entire time B1) one set that had the Pasture zone over the fertilized eggs removed, by removing portions of the activity zone, but keeping them in the same pasture they laid eggs in. and got to testing methods of keeping the birds fed, and i discovered something interesting. I modded my game to include Elk Birds a species dwarves can embark with. So i did a bit of amature science to see if i could fix it. Grazing requires unrestricted movement in order work. As some of you may know, or have gleaned from the thread topic, Elk Birds lay eggs and graze, and while nesting, they will not move from the nest box their eggs are in, and will eventually starve themselves to death. Entire fortresses can be fed with egg production, although eggs are currently bugged and can cause instant maximum clutter in your kitchen.So, I've playing around with Elk Birds and trying to breed them. It should be noted that most domestic birds have tremendous reproductive potential, and a few species of breeding birds can cause a population explosion that rivals even the deadliest of catsplosions. Eggs do not appear to go rotten and can be collected and cooked after two or more seasons without generating miasma. There may be no way of telling whether or not eggs have been fertilized, but if they sit in a nest box for more than two seasons, they are unlikely to ever hatch. To achieve this, eggs can be forbidden, or access to the nest box can be blocked with locked doors, or eggs can be forbidden as a cooking ingredient in the kitchen menu. If a male is present, the eggs may be fertilized and hatch if the dwarves can be prevented from collecting them out of the nest box and hauling them to be eaten.
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To free the nest for rapid turn around of eggs from a single box, deconstruct the nest after the eggs are collected or hatched and rebuild it - a different animal, ready to lay, will claim the nest box and immediately lay a clutch of eggs.Ī nested female will lay eggs regardless of the presence of a male of the same species, however the eggs will not be fertilized and will not hatch unless a male is present. In either situation, the nest box remains claimed by the animal. If a dwarf does not collect the eggs, the animal will remain on the nest box until the eggs hatch, after which it will also vacate the nest box until it is ready to lay again. If dwarves have access to the nest, a dwarf with the food hauling labor enabled will then remove the eggs and take them to a food stockpile and the animal will vacate the nest until it is ready to lay again. This process is very quick (<1 day) and the eggs are ready to be collected immediately if they are to be cooked, but require time to hatch if you wish to start a breeding program. The animal that claims the nest box will periodically lay eggs into the nest. The box will then be claimed by an egg laying animal when it is ready to lay eggs. Once created, the nest box is then built using Shift + n and will not block movement. For either forge, query the forge, select other objects, then use +/ - to manually highlight the metal and then use +/ - to manually highlight "Make metal Nest Box".For a glass nest box, query the workshop, select green/ clear/ k crystal glass, then use +/ - to manually highlight "Make type glass Nest Box".To create one at a Craftdwarf's workshop, query the workshop, select wood products, then use +/ - to manually highlight "Make wooden Nest Box", or select g rock products, then use +/ - to manually highlight "Make rock Nest Box".Unplaced nest boxes are stored in the tool section of a finished goods stockpile. A nest box is created using a single piece of wood or stone at a craftsdwarf's workshop, a single bag of sand (and optional crystal/pearlash) at a glass furnace or magma glass furnace, or a single bar of metal at a metalsmith's forge or magma forge.
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