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Went back and dropped to only 18 chickens and 8 ewes, added a bull. We may want to drop to 7 ewes if we're keeping our own bull as an ox. Actually, yeah, make that 7 ewes. EDIT: And done.
 
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Imperial Fister said:
Hogne is selling Fine-level animals, what does he want a Decent bull for? You'll need to sell it elsewhere or just hold onto it for food. Or geld it to make an Ox, which'll help you with farm stuff
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Guess we know who our plow boi is going to be.

uri said:
Can wool be sacrificed? It seems more valuable than just food so it might be better for sacrificing also
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Think Trade Goods, Halla's Housecraft skills are getting increasingly good, and once she nails the rest of the Housecraft Tricks and has her workshops set up, she's going to be able to fairly reliably produce Good to Fine quality stuff like clothes and tools, which we can flip around into Significant Profits, as we've already seen from flipping Bog Iron into Tool Sets.
 
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Alectai said:
Think Trade Goods, Halla's Housecraft skills are getting increasingly good, and once she nails the rest of the Housecraft Tricks and has her workshops set up, she's going to be able to fairly reliably produce Good to Fine quality stuff like clothes and tools, which we can flip around into Significant Profits, as we've already seen from flipping Bog Iron into Tool Sets.
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That's just sounds like something that is even better to sacrifice for luck or give out for othstir.
 
Chickens: 12 Food/Fodder
Sheep: 1 Food + 8 Cloth/Fodder
Goats: 3 Food + 2 Cloth/Fodder
Cattle: 8 Food/Fodder

Chickens are a lot better than Cows, the optimum combo is Chickens + Sheep. Cows have some different advantages though?
 
Shard said:
Chickens: 12 Food/Fodder
Sheep: 1 Food + 8 Cloth/Fodder
Goats: 3 Food + 2 Cloth/Fodder
Cattle: 8 Food/Fodder

Chickens are a lot better than Cows, the optimum combo is Chickens + Sheep. Cows have some different advantages though?
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Cows are inherently prestigious, above and beyond their benefits.
 
Shard said:
Chickens: 12 Food/Fodder
Sheep: 1 Food + 8 Cloth/Fodder
Goats: 3 Food + 2 Cloth/Fodder
Cattle: 8 Food/Fodder

Chickens are a lot better than Cows, the optimum combo is Chickens + Sheep. Cows have some different advantages though?
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The chickens are 4 Food for 1 Fodder, not 12 (actually 8 Food to 2 Fodder if we're talking 6 chickens). The amounts of food given are per 3 chickens (as is the fodder consumed). Cows are, in fact the best Food/Fodder ratio, though they have the same Space/Food ratio as chickens.

Chickens are second best for food and almost literally an order of magnitude cheaper than cows, but cows are technically better, food-wise.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
The chickens are 4 Food for 1 Fodder, not 12 (actually 8 Food to 2 Fodder if we're talking 6 chickens). The amounts of food given are per 3 chickens (as is the fodder consumed). Cows are, in fact the best Food/Fodder ratio, though they have the same Space/Food ratio as chickens.

Chickens are second best for food and almost literally an order of magnitude cheaper than cows, but cows are technically better, food-wise.
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Oh, whoops.

Uh, in that case shouldn't we go for a pure Cow+Sheep combo? We're incredibly rich. Plus it's more 'economical' with regards to only needing one bull/rooster.
 
[] Cowsheep Extravaganza
-[] 7 Fine Ewes (-14 Silver, -7 Space, So Much Wool, +7 Food per turn, -7 Fodder per turn)
-[] 1 Fine Ram (-8 Silver, -1 Space, More Wool, -1 Fodder per turn)
-[] 4 Fine Cow (-112 silver, -4 Space, +32 Food per turn, -4 Fodder per turn)
-[] 1 Fine Bull (-36 silver, -1 Space, -1 Fodder per turn)

Compared to getting chickens this costs 2 less space and 2 less Fodder/turn, but 69 more Silver, plus however much more prestigious 3 extra Cows are. Plus 3 more 4d6 rolls on the Calving rolls, since 3 extra Cows.

To be honest I think with the amount of Cloth the turn is going to be generating, which is, what, 64 Cloth/Turn, we might want to hire people who are good at weaving to weave our Cloth. No way Halla can weave that much wool per turn.
 
Another thing to consider is beekeeping. Not really something we can purchase, and from the little research I'm doing on Google it looks like we're not sure if the Norse even kept bees as opposed to foraging it - I would guess they did keep bees based on the importance of mead to the culture, but we don't have any idea how it was done. If nothing else, I imagine a rune-scribed beehive could summon a swarm to inhabit it.
 
[X] Accept the offer and hire Kurt and Haydis into your service (Gain a total of 13 management dice)
[X] Seal the deal and increase the size of your land

[X] Plan Only The Best
 
[X] Accept the offer and hire Kurt and Haydis into your service (Gain a total of 13 management dice)
[X] Seal the deal and increase the size of your land
[X] Plan Only The Best
 
Shard said:
Compared to getting chickens this costs 2 less space and 2 less Fodder/turn, but 69 more Silver, plus however much more prestigious 3 extra Cows are. Plus 3 more 4d6 rolls on the Calving rolls, since 3 extra Cows.
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We're rich, but not that rich. Like, money is not completely irrelevant to us IMO. Diversification is also, I think, important and relevant to avoid point failure sources like the cattle getting sick...to say nothing of any nutritional issues with eating only milk and milk products. Like, I could be convinced to drop the number of chickens for additional cows, but not to none.

Hmmm. Dropping 6 chickens for two cows ups our costs by 53 silver, keeps our Fodder the same, and ups our Food by 8. That just doesn't seem worth it economically the more I think on it. Like, 53 silver for 48 Food a year when we're already so oversupplied with Food seems like it'd take a while to pay ourselves back given we can buy 4 Food (in the form of a Basic Sheep) for 1/4 of a Silver, so 16 food for 1 Silver.

It does let us expand the herd faster, I suppose, but that's still rough...I'll think about it.

EDIT: Actually, thinking in terms of point-failure sources, a few more cows does seem good. I'll drop 6 chickens and pick up two cows for that reason. The money hurts a little, but we can afford it.
 
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Mmm, we just need to make sure we don't blow all of our money in one go, because it'll be a very long time indeed before we get a windfall like this again. It's why our total budget for this should not exceed 200 Ounces of Silver, I think. It'll be a fantastic foundation to build a wealthy homestead on, without blowing every piece of hacksilver in one place. I especially want to keep our Gold in reserve and tucked away for a rainy day, since it's in a small enough number that we can likely conceal it relatively easily and pack it up if we have to bug out quick, but valuable enough to rebuild on if calamity occurs.

We'll also want some money tucked away depending on what Twoshields' business offer is, if we can buy into a partnership in that if it's--say--a trading expedition, that could be a good way to profit further, and maybe make some connections beyond the valley for our future endeavors.
 
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Alectai said:
Mmm, we just need to make sure we don't blow all of our money in one go, because it'll be a very long time indeed before we get a windfall like this again. It's why our total budget for this should not exceed 200 Ounces of Silver, I think.
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We're at 154 in livestock here with the change to 3 cows, with 15 for the land and 34 for the employees, we hit just over that at 203 ounces of silver for this expedition. I think that's fine but going much over that would indeed be excessive.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
We're at 154 in livestock here with the change to 3 cows, with 15 for the land and 34 for the employees, we hit just over that at 203 ounces of silver for this expedition. I think that's fine but going much over that would indeed be excessive.
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Yeah, I think that's good. Just over 200 ounces spent on getting a fantastic pile of livestock that will grow over time puts us in a very good position. It's all Fine Quality too, which makes them very cost effective in the long run, and with our fields doubling in size, maintaining this shouldn't be a big issue either.

Oh yeah, @Imperial Fister , out of curiosity, how many fields does Steinarr's Farm have? We got a fairly generous dowry, and effectively doubled on that from a successful raiding trip, but I'm not sure how that actually compares to our other peers. Though I imagine a lot of the reason we could expand our territory boiled down to our increased Reputation from being part of a massively successful Raid, huh?
 
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