Animal husbandry: Difference between revisions

Each food portion gives 1.0 satiation.  ''After'' reaching the "Ready to mate" stage, larger female mammals need to eat 10 portions of feed, hens need 4, and hares need 2 in order to become pregnant.  Males don't show their satiation in the {{BlockInfo}}, but they need a satiation value of at least 1.0 to mate. (Note that since their satiation slowly goes down, on average they need to eat at least twice to be able to mate with a female). After mating, both the male and female parents’ satiation level will reset to zero.

'''(Note:''' Feed is ''not required'' for captured or domesticated animals to survive. They cannot starve to death. Additionally, all the time frames listed below assume the player has default, 9-day months. The length of gestation and maturation will scale accordingly if this setting is altered.)

Note that male sheep (and sometimes the females) will always attack players when in close range, and will not stop until after 10 generations of breeding.

{{ll|Goat|Goats}} eat food placed in a {{ll|Trough|large trough}}: dry grass (or hay), grains (except rice), vegetables (except parsnips), or fruit mash<ref>Lines 58-61 of goat.json</ref>. When the {{BlockInfo}} says nannies are ready to mate, they need to eat 10 portions<ref>Line 442 of goat.json</ref> of food from a large trough. If an adult male of the same type is within 10 blocks<ref>Lines 432-435 of goat.json</ref>, she will become pregnant shortly.  After a gestation period of 20 days,<ref>Line 439 of goat.json</ref> nannies bear one kid at a time.<ref>Lines 429-437 of goat.json</ref> The chances for male or female are 50/50.<ref>Needs confirmation; lines 429-455 of goat.json are unclear.</ref> Kids take 336 game-hours to grow up,<ref>Lines 451 of goat.json</ref> and the nannies will need 4-11 days<ref>Lines 440-441 of goat.json</ref> before they are ready to breed again.<br>

Unlike sheep, goats are safe from random bear attacks.

{{ll|Chicken|Chickens}} will only eat grain placed in [[Trough|small troughs]]. Although hens will lay eggs on their own every 8-15 days, a hen needs to reach a satiety of 4 and have a rooster close before they can mate to produce fertile eggs. Once ready, a henbox will be necessary in order for the fertilized eggs to hatch after a proper incubation period of 5 days. If every henbox is occupied, or none are available, hens will start laying eggs on the ground, where they will not be able to hatch. They can be picked up within 48 game-hours before they disappear. Once a henbox has 3 fertilized eggs, a broody hen will sit on them periodically throughout the incubation period until they hatch. If a player or other hostile entity gets too close to the hen, they will get spooked and run off, prolonging the incubation period.  

Once the eggs hatch, a chick will appear, which will grow up after 168 hours (7 days), with a 90% chance to be a hen and only a 10% chance to be a rooster. Once a hen has laid an egg, they will have to wait 1-2 hours before they're ready to lay again.

{{ll|Hare|Hares}} can eat from a large trough, and can also consume any vegetable items tossed on the ground nearby.  Though the {{BlockInfo}} will not indicate ''when'' they are ready to mate, adult females need to eat 2 portions<ref>Line 117 of hare-female.json</ref> of food. If an adult male is within 10 blocks<ref>Lines 109-110 of hare-female.json</ref>, she will become pregnant shortly. After a gestation period of 5 days,<ref>Line 114 of hare-female.json</ref> hares bear litters of 1-4 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare leverets] at a time.<ref>Lines 111-112 of hare-female.json</ref>  Leverets take 336 game-hours to mature,<ref>Line 85 of hare-baby.json</ref> and the females need to wait 2-5 days<ref>Lines 115-116 of hare-female.json</ref> before they are ready to breed again.<br>

After awhile, the {{BlockInfo}} will show that some of the hares are generation 1, i.e. not quite wild anymore.  They still flee the player at gen 5, but not at gen 10.