Selective breeding

[Kaios]

I'm really confused by the screenshot, I see cows and bulls and I also see pictures of cows with the bull nameplate above them but I'm not sure which I'm supposed to be looking at.

If you're looking for an opinion on which one seems to be the best for your needs I'd go with Bessie 9 simply because it has the best average of ess, sub, vit, it has 1 point less than the highest milk quantity and the percentage quality of milk/hide are comparable to the other animals as well.

[Qeeet]

I'm really confused by the screenshot, I see cows and bulls and I also see pictures of cows with the bull nameplate above them but I'm not sure which I'm supposed to be looking at.

If you're looking for an opinion on which one seems to be the best for your needs I'd go with Bessie 9 simply because it has the best average of ess, sub, vit, it has 1 point less than the highest milk quantity and the percentage quality of milk/hide are comparable to the other animals as well.

yea, I posted baby cows as well, just ignore them. Bessie 9 is a cow.

[Kaios]

yea, I posted baby cows as well, just ignore them. Bessie 9 is a cow.

oh duh I should have realized that, I'd breed Bessie5.0 with Bessie 9 since I agree with you that it has the best qualities other than breeding but at least Bessie 9 makes up for that lack of breeding quality and is still decent for the reasons I stated before.

[Adata]

I read from forums that breeding quality impacts vit/sub/ess and can kinda cap it so the highest it is, the bigger chance that it increases, but breeding is a bit random.

As for me I try to rise breeding quality first then look at milk quantity and quality, or at start it was too easy to make milk quantity go from 10 to like 5 when I didn't pay attention to that.

And for easier look at what your animal stats are, I use a notepad doc. If you do not have many breeding animals it is not that hard to make one.
Heres a part on how it looks. (F - female, M - Male, tM - tiny Male)


Some stats are mostly unimportant if you need milk, like meat and hide things.
If I had to sort by importance its probably breeding q > milk-quantitiy/quality > vit/sub/ess.
Well the idea is that with the breeding q increase the vit/sub/ess would increase. Not too sure, but other people whom I asked about this knew even less than me so I had to guess, but they weren't really farmers.

Bessie 5 has nice vit/sub/ess, but both Bessie 5 and 4 have low breeding quality, so I would say not too great for further increase.
Bessie 6 has nice breeding but it has so low milk quality and quantity.
Bessie 3 has nice breeding ands other stats arent too bad except, vit/sub/ess is a bit low.

In my case, I would choose Bessie 3.

[NeoBasilisk]

The only sane way I've found to tracking animal stats and deciding which ones to keep was by making a spreadsheet. The random variation in stats of offspring is so huge, it's madness to keep track of otherwise.

[Qeeet]

I read from forums that breeding quality impacts vit/sub/ess and can kinda cap it so the highest it is, the bigger chance that it increases, but breeding is a bit random.

As for me I try to rise breeding quality first then look at milk quantity and quality, or at start it was too easy to make milk quantity go from 10 to like 5 when I didn't pay attention to that.

And for easier look at what your animal stats are, I use a notepad doc. If you do not have many breeding animals it is not that hard to make one.
Heres a part on how it looks. (F - female, M - Male, tM - tiny Male)


Some stats are mostly unimportant if you need milk, like meat and hide things.
If I had to sort by importance its probably breeding q > milk-quantitiy/quality > vit/sub/ess.
Well the idea is that with the breeding q increase the vit/sub/ess would increase. Not too sure, but other people whom I asked about this knew even less than me so I had to guess, but they weren't really farmers.

Bessie 5 has nice vit/sub/ess, but both Bessie 5 and 4 have low breeding quality, so I would say not too great for further increase.
Bessie 6 has nice breeding but it has so low milk quality and quantity.
Bessie 3 has nice breeding ands other stats arent too bad except, vit/sub/ess is a bit low.

In my case, I would choose Bessie 3.

Thanks man, I guess I'm keeping Bessie 3

[MadNomad]

keep the one with best milk quantity, quality doesnt matter if you have good q wood, even with q10 wood it would matter a little bit, wood is what makes cheese have good q

for skins uhh hunt you will get a lot more and a lot faster, if you want top q skins find the q450 mammoth node

even lowest q possible boars are q30, so better skins than from cows

[Qeeet]

keep the one with best milk quantity, quality doesnt matter if you have good q wood, even with q10 wood it would matter a little bit, wood is what makes cheese have good q

for skins uhh hunt you will get a lot more and a lot faster, if you want top q skins find the q450 mammoth node

even lowest q possible boars are q30, so better skins than from cows

in general you are right. I can get some hides up to bear's hide. I guess I'm not strong enough to kill mammoth. Btw, how much ua or melee should be in order to be able to kill it?