Animal problem (breeding)

[cptziggy]

Hello farmers,
I started to taming animals and know very little of it. I managed to tame pair of (cow+bull) (ram+sheep), but they won't breed and reproduce! I wonder if there is too much space for animals, and somehow they cannot have sex, by leaving each others range or something?
http://imgur.com/a/wJ91c

Questions to answer:
Fenced area is 20x25 tiles. It is too big?
Food is provided. Do animal require water?
Why do they not reproducing? (waited 2 days)
How can I tell that animal is pregnant?

Thanks for advices.

[bolognaman]

Breeding takes time. You can't expect them to be in the mood all the time.
You can inspect the female animals to see if they are pregnant (a pregnant ewe will say something like "With lamb")

[Teleskop]

No you dont need to give them water,just put them together in a pen and im pretty sure they are already pregnant as im typing it

[MagicManICT]

It can take 2-3 days for them to breed. Can't say I recall longer, but there are complaints here and there about delays of more than a day or two.

[cptziggy]

I'm waiting very long right now. I'm also concerned, because my Ewe stopped eating (?) her welfedness dropped very badly, even in other animals have 100% of satiety and welfedness.

[Amanda44]

Yeah, the eating thing does happen sometimes, I don't know what causes it, don't think anyone does ... I have a ram and a foal who won't eat atm, last time it happened it was a bull and I moved him to another area with a different trough, he was fine then. However, this approach hasn't worked with the ram this time. (I've yet to move the foal as only noticed it yesterday before logging off).

[iamahh]

when you inspect animal, pregnant animal reads "--with [baby name]"

the hunger bar goes down if they couldn't eat when they tried... maybe make another foodthrough just to make sure... baby animals need a milk mother so they can feed, i once forgot that

the other bar goes down if the animal eats food lower quality than itself... sometimes you need to destroy an old foodtrough to fill it with higher ql stuff... also i like to pave ground so they don't eat grass, which is lower ql

[cptziggy]

My animal are 10q (they are freshly tamed) i have full foodtrough filled (2000) with q90 barleyhemp/flax seeds

[iamahh]

I'd build a small space just for the couple, just to make sure... it's easy to build and destroy anyway...

i once interrupted their mating by clicking "inspect" when the animal was starting the process... maybe they are unlucky bumping each other... or is just a normal wait time

[cptziggy]

After 4 days, they finally started breeding. but the problem is that they don't want to eat now.