Calf intestines

[leonidas]

So i butchered a calf today. The info screen said the meat q was 55 but the intestines and meat turned out to be 43. my survival is above 55 and so is my axe.
is there something else that determines the q of the meat and intestines?

what gives?

thanks for the help

[Potjeh]

Food eaten quality softcaps the base quality. It starts at mother's milk quality, so if you want good calf intestines you have to breed for both meat and milk q.

[daemmonium]

Or wait for him around 6 days to get the food Q up a bit. Then sacrifice

[Potjeh]

Upping food q with milk is excruciatingly slow, and you can get 10 points at most before the calf grows up.

[daemmonium]

Upping food q with milk is excruciatingly slow, and you can get 10 points at most before the calf grows up.

Well, for this case it seems like it would have worked. Or at least it would get you 10 more points if you wait for the 6 days. 55 was the intended, 43 what he got, 50-53~ what he would have got in 6 days.

I must admit it's not the best way, of course, better selection of cattle is the main objective; but still may work a bit if you failed on previous generations selection.

[Sevenless]

Food eaten quality softcaps the base quality. It starts at mother's milk quality, so if you want good calf intestines you have to breed for both meat and milk q.

Catch me if I'm wrong here, but I was under the impression that calf stats randomized based on the breeding Q of the parents.

That would mean that your ideal cow for breeding would have high Q milk and breeding.

[Potjeh]

No, for each stat it's the average of mother's and father's stat, softcapped by father's breeding, -5/+20.

[leonidas]

And what role does the food q play then? Hardcaps the stats?

[DatOneGuy]

And what role does the food q play then? Hardcaps the stats?

In breeding? None, at all.

Food quality only matters when talking about what you get 'out of that animal', not about it's potential to mate and have offspring.

You could have a cow on starving about to die and let it have a baby and the baby will be fine, despite the fact that the cow even with milk quality 100 would give something like q10 milk.

[Sevenless]

No, for each stat it's the average of mother's and father's stat, softcapped by father's breeding, -5/+20.

That sounds convoluted to say the least. Can you provide some numbers that give evidence? Or a post of course.