The Logistics of 7 Female Cows

[Potjeh]

What I would do if I were you is get them impregnated in two batches, so it's easier to handle fodder wise, and then keep all 7 for milking. You can't have too much cheese.

[daemmonium]

What I would do if I were you is get them impregnated in two batches, so it's easier to handle fodder wise, and then keep all 7 for milking. You can't have too much cheese.

What you have explained sir, is the basic management of a dairy farm, and if you never had contact with one, then congratulations to your thinking

[Foarl]

I got 8 males (2 pigs, 6 cows) in a row, now I'm up to 4 females (2 cows, 2 sheep) in a row taming wise. Java random really hates me.

As for feeding them, you need 10 squares of beetroots per pregnant female cow, and 1 square for the bull. Cows eat less when lactating, but still more than the base of 4.6 per day. For someone solo, that's probably a little much to ask. You'd need help to farm that much or it'll be a full time duty.

Except the server isn't programmed in Java, just the client. (Server is C if I remember correctly.)

Hmm... Good numbers there. I'll have to remember those.

Solo players shouldn't need more than one or two cows for milk. The rest of the concern will be breeding stock. (The best bull and cow you have.) Kill everything else off. Pumpkins will help greatly as they don't need to be pollinated by bees. I think someone else pointed out that pumpkin Q goes up faster than cow Q.

At first I thought cow Q wouldn't exceed pumpkin Q, but I'm not sure about that now. With the +20/-5 variable you can gain +20 points on some cows while the pumpkins would only go up 4 points of Q over those two weeks. Depends a lot on having pumpkins much higher Q than your cows at the start so you can deal with the odd outlier who ends up better Q than the average.

[Potjeh]

Getting both male and female calf in the same generation with both +20 milk q and +20 breeding q is extremely unlikely to happen.

[Foarl]

Getting both male and female calf in the same generation with both +20 milk q and +20 breeding q is extremely unlikely to happen.

But wouldn't the average still be higher than +4? Well, technically +4.6 if you count the 1/3 of a pumpkin generation.

Doubt it matters to most people, but beets are more efficient on space too I think. You need bigger pumpkin fields than beet fields to feed them.

[loftar]

Or was I just unlucky enough to tame 7 female cows which is a 0.0078% if we assume a 1:1 ratio of male to female cows.

Actually, the probability is 0.0078, not 0.0078%. That's two orders of magnitude of difference. More readably, it's 1 in 128, so it actually isn't that improbable. Not more so than that someone was bound to get it, at least. ;)

[Mashadar]

And if you look at the chances for getting 7 of the same gender (as opposed to 7 female ones), it raises to 1:64.
So yeah, just a bit of bad luck.

[Sevenless]

You know, 7 females isn't all that bad since it's cows. Getting 7 male pigs in a row, that would be killer lol.

[MagicManICT]

You know, 7 females isn't all that bad since it's cows. Getting 7 male pigs in a row, that would be killer lol.

Don't the males have tusks?

[serpentyngallery]

yeah, but they'd be q10 on a freshie