Domestic animal Q gain

[hazzor]

I'm struggling to get any quality gain on my animals, I've had 6 cows going at it with a bull for ages now, and the calves just seem to always be shitty, the best I've had is one at 10 11 12, with quantities 10 and 15, and quality percentages of 98, 105 and 102, and a breeding q of 11...

I think there are too many variables, I can kind of forget about quantities, obviously I'd like them high but the Quality is what I'm after, so that gives 7 separate numbers that I have to hope increase.

Obviously ideally I'd have more cows breeding but I work full time and have other shit to do than farm thousands of beets to feed 20 cows + calves. Anyone else having similar woes?

[Asgaroth22]

To be honest, i'm not sure how those qualities even work. I'll blatantly use your thread to ask my questions.

I have my first lamb, it's q 10-5-6 , quantity 10,15,13, 103, 100, 102, 101% and q12 breeding.
What is the purpose of those percentages? if i got 10/10/10 cow with 200% milk will the milk be 20/20/20 in quality?

[hazzor]

To be honest, i'm not sure how those qualities even work. I'll blatantly use your thread to ask my questions.

I have my first lamb, it's q 10-5-6 , quantity 10,15,13, 103, 100, 102, 101% and q12 breeding.
What is the purpose of those percentages? if i got 10/10/10 cow with 200% milk will the milk be 20/20/20 in quality?

as far as I can tell, yes, because when the percentage range was 50-100, a q10/10/10 animal would give q5 produce.

I imagine it'll help reach higher Qualities easier, but that'll only be the case if the numbers ever actually go up together.

[sabinati]

To be honest, i'm not sure how those qualities even work. I'll blatantly use your thread to ask my questions.

I have my first lamb, it's q 10-5-6 , quantity 10,15,13, 103, 100, 102, 101% and q12 breeding.
What is the purpose of those percentages? if i got 10/10/10 cow with 200% milk will the milk be 20/20/20 in quality?

correct

[Sevenless]

I'm finding limited incredibly slow progress by limiting myself to two qualities, % quality and breeding. I usually have to go through about 5-6 calves before I find one worth keeping.

The random values were probably ported from the old 1 quality system. Aka making overall improvement pretty improbable on a regular basis.

[Inzainia]

not to thread hijack, but since the op's question has been answered, i would like to add one concerning breeding.

I have 2 males and 2 female cows atm(just started taming a few days back) how long before they become pregnant? also do i need to unhitch them from the hitching post?

right now i have all 4 cows hitched up and all 4 sheep hitched up to hitching posts just to keep them in range of the trough. is this normal? or should i let them free roam in their big pen i made?

[Sevenless]

not to thread hijack, but since the op's question has been answered, i would like to add one concerning breeding.

I have 2 males and 2 female cows atm(just started taming a few days back) how long before they become pregnant? also do i need to unhitch them from the hitching post?

right now i have all 4 cows hitched up and all 4 sheep hitched up to hitching posts just to keep them in range of the trough. is this normal? or should i let them free roam in their big pen i made?

I have no experience with hitching domesticated animals. Only wild animals need to be hitched, domestic ones do not poof when the map unloads.

My animals usually get pregnant within 2ish days of being mixed in with males. I pen them to keep them within range of the trough to prevent starvation damage. Troughs can feed over/through walls.