A way to tell if animals are pregnent or not.

[Zekera]

Okay.. so if your like me.. and are wanting to increase your livestock by A LOT then you let your male in the pen and leave him there. However.. unless your watching you cannot tell which animal is with calf/piglet/lamb and it gets annoying.. Then I remembered that I read a book with sheep breeders in it.. Well, they would tie chalk bags to the underside of the ram/cow/boar, so if the next they found chalk on the animal then it would most likely have a baby.

I was thinking it would quite simple for jorb to go in and add a red or blue spot to show on the back of pregnant animals.

[sabinati]

it could just show on the info window

[OvShit]

Hey, an idea appears!
There should be kind of herb(very rare), which, when used on animal, allows you then to right-click it and choose Check for Pregnancy, which will show you info. As far as I remember, there was some kind of herb which was used by Roman for telling pregnancy - except it was used for people. I may be wrong, though.

[BWithey]

Hey, an idea appears!
There should be kind of herb(very rare), which, when used on animal, allows you then to right-click it and choose Check for Pregnancy, which will show you info. As far as I remember, there was some kind of herb which was used by Roman for telling pregnancy - except it was used for people. I may be wrong, though.

Historically accurate or not, I *LIKE* it.. A resource that would need constant harvesting, and one more item that could be traded for by those who care.

[Avu]

You idiots retarded or something? Why should some shit that should be fucking obvious and standard interface provided info be tied to some moronic herb that nobody with half a brain will ever buy or trade?

[Potjeh]

Pregnant females should have larger bellies. But until sprites can be made, status information on the stats sheet would be fine.

[OvShit]

K-kay, Avu, you may have your opinion and, of course, you car criticise ours, but heck, choose your words. Don`t be so aggressive moron.

[Avu]

I did chose them. I felt they were quite appropriate to the situation.

[DatOneGuy]

Well you guys are asking for something to be a pain in the ass "rare" is pretty much codeword for "Need a lot of per*exp to find" meaning absolute newbs won't be trading it, put that together with "trade goods" and you see no one will trade it, and on the off chance they do, it won't be worth much if I can only use it to check a few times.

Overall you're making it complicated and silly and no one will bother using it, it'd be better off just hoping they mated instead of checking at that point.

[Zekera]

Opps.. Hmmm.. apparently that was what i got for posting in a hurry.. I had a whole list of options..

a little stork icon on the corner of info box..
A simple Pregnant :yes/no added to list..
The option to "examine" the animal, for females you'd get a message about the belly looking bigger or not, and for males.. well.. jorb could come up with soemthing..

The herb idea would be okay.. but it don;t really need to be rare..

and the whole historically accurate thing is just cause i've see posts where mods responded this was a certain era game..