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No, if they give bones they give meat.  You just have to wait for turkeys to grow.  Peafowl and geese can be slaughtered as soon as they hatch.

Turkeys do give 2 meat, 2 fat, a skull, and a skin at birth a percentage of the time.  I'm just focused on bone carving so I mostly just track bone returns.

Well I like my forts tidy.  So I generally murder all the pets and children cluttering up the place.

For a while, my standard procedure was to built a column of stairs up to the skybox and then build a bridge and set a burrow for all the pets/kids.  Set a station order at the base of the tower, everyone in my forts is in the militia, and then make it rain.  Good times.

Then v34 came and they started surviving the the fall.  At first I was annoyed, then I realized, free medical training! 

So now I project them from the "Happy Place", that what the burrow is always named, and reset.  All the ones not too crippled crawl back to the burrow.  Rinse and repeat until they are all dead or in the hospital.

I suppose the horrible part is I make sure everyone else is watching when they plummet.

Cilantro.  Quarry bush leaves are Cilantro.  Goes on everything.

So this FB and this group of ant people fought in the caverns.  All the antpersons die except one, but they get some licks in.  The FB is pretty badly crippled.  The last antwoman and the FB face off and fight.

For the next three years.

A blood trail shows their fight traveled up and down 2 z levels and cross two screen of cavern.  Pretty epic, but whatever, and after three years I'm tired of my combat indicator always being red.  So I crack the caves open and send in the Fugly Force Five to kill the FB.  After he's dead, I send them after the antwoman, but I cancel after I notice she is no longer hostile.  She has, in fact, become 'friendly' in the units list. (as well as a Worker Ant Woman Elite Wrestler)

I guess my question is did killing her opponent make her friendly, or did she just look up and notice that everyone else was dead and was like, "hey new friends!"?

Giant Cave Spiders.  If a TRAINED gcs shoots webs on the ground, will regular dwarves (non web collectors) be trapped by the webs?  Not if they get hit by collateral flying webs, but if they walk over a web on the ground.

Yes, they get webbed.  I just embarked with 20 GCS.  For funsies.  Webs everywhere.  Animals and dwarfs stuck all over the place.

Sounds like standard dwarf behavior to me.  Best I've been able to do is move the meeting area to make them stand where I need work done.

ya i just marked 91 turkies for slaughter.... thank you autobutcher

Did they produce any bones?  I'm trying to track down a growth bug.  If they were all born in the fort there should have been zero bones produced.  TIA!