When nourished every day, cows should maintain weight or improve it, but as they get older their growth becomes unpredictable. Cows can be milked every three days and slaughtered at any time for their meat.
Cow Facts and Costs Sheet
1) Breeding: Some counties do not breed cows. Check with your Town Hall to see if your county has cows.2) Costs: Cow ranching can be costly. I do not suggest it as a first or even second field. Also, you should really be able to remember to feed your cows EVERY day. If you do not, you will lose your profit and your ranch will actually COST you money to operate.
a. Here are items you'll need. (These are worst-case costs because buckets don't break with every single use and knives break 1/3 uses):
Cows ________ 4 X 45
Buckets ______ 4 X 38-43 pounds
Knives _______ 4 X 14-15 pounds
Milkers_______ 4 X 19-25 pounds (Milkers should have 20+ intelligence, so you should hire for more than 19)
Slaughterers__ 4 X 15-19 (If your cow does not HAVE to die today, you can hire for 15, but make sure you don't mess up your milking days.)
Suggested Investment Capital = 500 pounds.
c. Make sure you get milkings or slaughters when you should or you could lose capital or an animal.
d. Consider investing in your buckets and knives before purchasing your animals. If you can't find buckets and/or knives, place a note in the forum or ask the mayor for help.
3) Selling:
a. Milk will sell cheaper in fishing towns (both milk and fish give intelligence). As with anything else it is a free market item and varies in price a LOT.
b. HC prices should coordinate with HHW prices. An HC is double an HHW.
4) Yields:
You get about:
=> 8*4=32 bottles of milk
=> 3*4=12 hc (Your HC will vary greatly. Some cows will be skinny when slaughtered. Most will never get as fat as normal.)
Proposed Cow Cycles
Schedule #1:(This schedule is based on the Breeding of Cows guide in the Renaissance Kingdoms Forums.)
1.day => Purchase of 4 cows for 180-200 pounds
2.day =>
3.day =>
4.day => hire a worker to milk your cows for 19-25 pounds
5.day => (+8 bottles of milk)
6.day =>
7.day => hire a worker to milk your cows for 19-25 pounds
8.day => (+8 bottles of milk)
9.day =>
10.day => hire a worker to milk your cows for 19-25 pounds
11.day => (+8 bottles of milk)
12.day =>
13.day => hire a worker to milk your cows for 19-25 pounds
14.day => hire a worker to slaughter a cow for 16-18 pounds (+8 bottles of milk)
15.day => hire a worker to slaughter a cow for 16-18 pounds (+3 hc)
16.day => hire a worker to slaughter a cow for 16-18 pounds (+3 hc)
17.day => hire a worker to slaughter a cow for 16-18 pounds (+3 hc)
18.day => Purchase of 4 cows (+3 hc)
Schedule #2:
Additional Variables
- Zero intelligence required for slaughtering.
- 20 + intelligence required for milking.
- Wages differ from town to town.
- Moods may affect your knife's resilience.
Posts
