Baby animals and milk quality

[Potjeh]

I'm keeping sheep for meat. The biggest annoyance for me is how I have to keep rams meant for slaughter for over a week after they grow up if I want to get decent meat quality from them. As the meat quality of my stock raises, the problem is getting worse and worse.

Now, as I understand it the source of the problem is that animals are born with q10 set as their food eaten value. They don't eat all that often, so the value of this variable changes slooooowly for them. Pregnant females don't have this problem because they go through food at lightning speed, but should I really be forced to get females meant for slaughter fertilized? It's a waste of food, and doesn't feel right to me.

My proposed solution is to set animals food eaten quality at birth to their mother's milk quality. This would also make milk quality a bit more important as a stat. I think it's not important at all right now. OK, I guess I can always hope for feta when it comes to milk q in sheep, but I doubt I'll ever be milking pigs.

[Mac70]

Hmm... Yes, very good idea, aggred.

[martinuzz]

Suggestion makes a lot of sense.

+1

[Reeyfer]

Yeah good idea, and would encourage meat q breeders to still buy a good milk q sow or two from their neighbors to fatten up their little bebes.

[DerGilb]

Yep, even though breeding system is great as it is, i think you can still make it better.

[Sarge]

This just explained what I couldn't exactly figure out, so thanks and I definitely agree.

[Gulluoglu]

Yeah, this sounds like both a good idea AND a sensible one.