Dwarf Fortress Turkey
Egg size does not currently affect food quantity.
Dwarf fortress turkey. Also i bring 4 turkey and unless i forget which happens more often than i d like to admit make a room with nestboxes for them. From dwarf fortress wiki. Hens which claim a nest box will regularly lay between 10 and 14 eggs which can then be collected by a dwarf with the food hauling labor.
So i started a new fortress. Adult male turkeys are called turkey gobblers and adult females are called turkey hens. He raised several zombies as soon as he got close to the targeted turkey.
Because of their good size the fact they reach adulthood and full size in only one year. About dwarf fortress wiki. The dogs and cats are for defense and vermin control the turkeys are to get egg production and meat production started right away and the pigs are for milk and meat.
Males are called turkey gobblers females are called turkey hens and hatchlings are called poults. 5 000 1 7 10 10 14 87 domestic. Now as an old dog she is still on the lookout for her missing friend.
The turkey however requires two years to reach full size and provides only a couple more meat meaning the goose provides similar meat in half the time. Compared to other domestic poultry turkeys are the largest in size being a better food source than the likes of chickens. From dwarf fortress wiki.
On embark i brought with myself 20 turkey hens and 5 turkey gobblers. Sent out a single necromancer soldier freshly drafted he was a noncombatant miner before to kill wildlife in the corpse covered land outside the fortress. Dwarf fortress losing is fun.
Once you have more then enough food you can think about locking the door to the nest boxes so you get more animals. For a steady meat industry i m thinking dogs or cats. 9 000 1 10 20 1 3 60 white stork.
If a turkey gobbler is present and the eggs are forbidden before they are. I usually embark with a couple of dogs a couple of cats 1 turkey gobbler 3 turkey hens and if i can afford it some pigs. 3 000 1 20 40 1 7 110 this creature cannot be fully tamed by dwarves and thus will require frequent training.
Created may 16 2009. Literally minutes after i made nestboxes my dwarves took almost 500 eggs to my food stockpile. I made nest boxes for them all and i seem to be getting massive amounts of eggs after the first few minutes of construction.
He was then dogpiled and killed by his own zombies.
