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=== Incubation Chamber === | === Incubation Chamber === | ||
− | A simple way to make sure that eggs can hatch without having dwarves try to make omelettes out of them is to build incubation chambers for your female birds. | + | A simple way to make sure that eggs can hatch without having dwarves try to make omelettes out of them is to build incubation chambers for your female birds.<br /> |
− | + | 1. Build 1x1 rooms, with lockable doors.<br /> | |
− | + | 2. Put one nest box in each room.<br /> | |
− | + | 3. Create a 1x1 pasture [[zone]] on top of the nest box, and assign one female egg-layer to it. She should claim the nest box when she is ready to lay eggs.<br /> | |
− | + | 4. Pasture or chain at least one male of the species somewhere. It needn't be close to the nest box.<br /> | |
− | + | 5. When you want the eggs to remain undisturbed, lock the door to the room. | |
If the eggs are fertile, you should eventually get a message about eggs having hatched. When you do, go to the nest box and unlock the door so the crowded chicks can get out (crowded animals will fight, and if they do, you may lose a chick or two in the melee; luckily they are always much smaller than their mother and unlikely to hurt her.) | If the eggs are fertile, you should eventually get a message about eggs having hatched. When you do, go to the nest box and unlock the door so the crowded chicks can get out (crowded animals will fight, and if they do, you may lose a chick or two in the melee; luckily they are always much smaller than their mother and unlikely to hurt her.) |