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Okay, I can confirm it's not just poults. Just got semi-wild chicks, too. Not sure why it would be a bug, though.

Both chicken and turkeys have [COMMON_DOMESTIC] and [PET] tags just like dogs do so you would think that there would be no problems there.  You could try adding the [TRAINABLE] tag and see if the issue clears up right away.

It might be possible that it’s a problem with the engine not recognizing the eggs belonging to the mother.  If this problem hasn’t been seen in any live birth situations that could be a cause of the loss of domestic status as the game might be assuming a base value of wild for the mother unless it can determine the eggs belong to an already domesticated animal.  I’m just guessing there though.

It looks like there’s some nice potential for !!SCIENCE!! here.

Ron Paul

Land Shark

What determines if a creature can be trained for war or hunting?

The tag [TRAINABLE] should fill the purpose of allowing a creature to be trained for war and hunting purposes.  [TRAINABLE_HUNTING] and [TRAINABLE_WAR] should allow for the training of only that specific action.  The tag [TRAINABLE] is still located in the dog entry under creature_domestic.txt so that likely hasn’t changed.

Here’s the entry for dog on the wiki.  Some of the information may be out of date but it should give you a good place to start if you’re looking to do comparisons: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Dog

Rock

Glass

Homer