SuperNoob about the armor, if you only hunt animals and don't do PvP, Q60-ish leather armor is good enough for anyone, anything higher is a waste of agility.
You will see that a mouflons deals the same damage to a bronzearmor person as a plate armor+dhelm+Q200 pants+Q200 r-boots person.
So yeah, leather armor is required, and enough UA to tank 2 hits of an aurochsen should be enough to tame safely