The Logistics of 7 Female Cows

[Snarks]

So... in my attempt to tame a pair of breeding cows, I spent my entire evening taming. The end result? Seven, consecutive domestication of solely female cows. Since it took so long to tame a single animal, it feels inappropriate to slaughter any. So this brings about a few questions.

Am I doing something? 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.

[Shadow7168]

If you can't feed 7 females, you can't feed 7 females + a male. Pregnant cows are fat, and eat practically twice the amount of food. Also, you could just trade a female for male.

[Snarks]

What can we expect as the market price for quality 10 cows? Is the conversation of agricultural products to milk worth it? In other words, is milk a more valuable commodity than most crops to warrant stockpiling it?

[b_anon]

What can we expect as the market price for quality 10 cows? Is the conversation of agricultural products to milk worth it? In other words, is milk a more valuable commodity than most crops to warrant stockpiling it?

Yes

[Tonkyhonk]

hey, 7 cows aint at all bad, compared to my record of 8 bulls in a row.

[kralmir]

erm mate. pregnant cows eat TEN times as much. not twice...

[Shadow7168]

erm mate. pregnant cows eat TEN times as much. not twice...

Oh right. Yeah, I didn't really tame/raise animals except for W3, when I got three females and a dead male, so I don't really know the numbers.

[sabinati]

i'll trade you a bull for a cow, if you are anywhere nearby. pm me if you're interested.

[Sevenless]

So... in my attempt to tame a pair of breeding cows, I spent my entire evening taming. The end result? Seven, consecutive domestication of solely female cows. Since it took so long to tame a single animal, it feels inappropriate to slaughter any. So this brings about a few questions.

Am I doing something? 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.

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.

[MagicManICT]

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.