Question about milk quality and cattle breeding

[Potjeh]

No, I'm sure it's the other way around, red is hunger and white is starvation. Here, proof.

Wellfedness: A beige bar to the right. If the cow goes hungry, it takes a permanent hit to this value, reducing the quality of all produce from it.
Hunger: How much the cow needs to eat, indicated by the red meter to the left.

[Ogrim]

I know this is a necro, but I'm having the exact same problem and can't find an answer.

Low q milk. Cow is well fed, not suffering from starvation and is putting out terrible q milk.

Also, the Ring of Brodgar says that there is some unknown softcap to milk q. I assume that's fodder q. Again, in this case that seems to be off.

Thoughts/ideas?

Right now I'm aiming to cull it from the herd once it produces a higher q female cow.

[MagicManICT]

No rules against necro posting here as long as it's useful.

Fodder will softcap the milk. I forget if farming skill will (pretty sure it's a yes, but just can't recall off top of my head.) Milk is one of those items you want to keep on increasing the quality off, so either way, you're plan to cull the old heifer from the herd is the right one.

[Cranny]

I suffered a raid, all fooders where destroyed and my cows where hungry for about 8 RL hours, bar went down just a little bit.
It happened 5 or 6 RL days ago, and the cows have never recovered from it.
I got up the food Q from 180 to 250, trying to solve it, but milk still is lower Q than the one they gave before, even their bars are all the way up again.
IDK, just and idea, maybe this cow has suffered hunger in past times, and has not recovered like mine.
I have read at another post that they never recover, I sure hope they do.

[graal]

Starvation is the white bar.

The white bar is the hunger bar, it will go down over time until the cow is hungry enough to eat. If, at that point, the cow does not have access to the food it will "starve" and the red bar will go down a bit. As the red bar goes down, the quality of the products derived from that cow will also go down. On the other hand, if at that point the cow has access to food it will eat it and the white bar will refill. The white bar is a timer letting you know how close your cow is to needing feeding, the red bar tells you whether your cow has actually starved. Our cattle are all very well fed.

If our cows were eating grass instead of fodder that would account for the low quality milk, however no patches of grass are missing from their pasture and the quality of their fodder eaten remains high. And yet, poor little "Dots" continues to give consistently q11 milk. Weird. I'll just keep her around for a while because of her high stats that she may pass on to a calf, then cull her when I have an appropriate replacement for her. I think she must just be bugged. Thanks again for your help.

I am pretty sure you go this backwards. The few animals I have that lost some white bar never recovered it (mostly because I left babies away from lactating females... so sad), but they seem to recover their red bar fine...

[MagicManICT]

Right. Animals that suffer from starvation will never recover. You can only replace them and anything you do with them will be lower quality than their stats.