More clarification on animal husbandry

[Bertelemy]

Can someone please explain the animal traits please? What it does Quality, Breeding quality, Milk Quantity, Milk Quality % mean? I didn't understand the wiki much.

What is satiety vs wellfedness?

Also, for breeding, does the male have to reach the female? So, if I block their path to each other with something other than fences, they won't breed also? Does the same thing apply to breastfeeding young animals? If I block their path to their mothers, they will die?

Finally, if I milk a lactating mother, won't the child starve? But if the child grows up, the mother will stop lactating? So, how to milk?

[Dawidio123]

Okay so:
Quality - quality of animal, all other qualities are based on this
Breeding quality - afaik it only matters on a male (maybe, i'm not sure), it's used when calculating the quality of offspring
Quantities - They affect how much of each product you get from the animals, milk quantity would affect how much milk the cow produces for example
Quality % - Is a % increase to the quality of the said product

Satiety is basically the animal hunger, once it drops to 0 the animal begins to starve. When the animal starves it drops the wellfedness (which affects overall qualities), afaik it's permanent damage.

Yes the animals need to be able to reach each other to breed.

If I'm not wrong the cows produce milk indefinitely after they get impregnated at least once, they just need to be lactating so the small ones can feed (according to wiki you can feed them with a barrel of milk if need be but i have no idea if that's true).

[Bertelemy]

Thanks a lot. Can you tell me how the numbers work? Like what does meat quantity 30 mean actually? Surely I will not get 30 pieces of meat.

[Dawidio123]

Thanks a lot. Can you tell me how the numbers work? Like what does meat quantity 30 mean actually? Surely I will not get 30 pieces of meat.

I have no clue on exact numbers, someone with better knowledge of herding might know. But, I assume, it's something like a square/cube root of quantity/10. So 10 is base production, either 40 or 90 quantity would double the production and so on, but my predictions might be completely wrong.

[vatas]

Sevenless made a pretty exhaustive guide that should still be up-to-date, biggest change I can remember is the addition of tamed reindeer.

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