Editing Cow

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|name = Cow
|image = Cow.png
|description = "A very common domestic animal. It can produce large amounts of milk, or be slaughtered for delicious food."
|type = Animals
|type2 = Farm
|bodysize = 2.0
|healthscale = 1.5
|movespeed = 3.20
|attack1dmg = 6
|attack1type = bite
|attack1part = teeth
|attack1cool = 100
|leathername = plainleather
|leatheryield = 60
|milk = 15
|milktime = 1
|manhunter = 0
|hungerrate = 0.85
|diet = herbivorous
|trainable = simple
|wildness = 0.05
|handleskill = 0
|gestation = 20
|lifespan = 22
|offspring = 1-3
|maturityage = 0.45+
|marketvalue = 300
|meatname = beef
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{{Info|The '''cow''' is a large herbivore best known for its milk and tasty meat.}}

==Taming==
Cows don't spawn in the wild and thus cannot be tamed. They can only be obtained via trading or received through the animal self-taming event. A cow can be milked for up to 15 units of milk per day (depending on your [[Characters|pawns]] animals skill) which means that a single cow can provide enough nutrition for one and a half meals a day if [[Meals|cooked]] into a simple meal, or three meals if cooked into a fine meal. This can be quite important, as it means that as long as you have enough food (either natural grass or [[haygrass]]) to keep your cattle fed, you can create a settlement that is entirely self sufficient for food even if your food crops become ruined or get destroyed.

==Training==
Cows can be trained as follows:

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===Feeding and Nutrition Efficiency===
A cow requires 1.36 nutrition per day to survive, while producing 0.75 nutrition of milk per day (depending on your pawn's animals skill) which can be cooked into 1.35 nutrition worth of simple or fine meals. So even if there's little natural grass to be had, you can efficiently convert vegetable nutrition into animal product nutrition by feeding cows vegetarian simple meals. Nutrition efficiency is lost by raising calves and keeping a bull for breeding, and gained by slaughtering dead cows and unnecessary calves.

Note that kibble requires meat or animal products to make and is significantly less nutritionally efficient than simple meals (125% v 180% of ingredients), unless using human or insect meat that would otherwise go to waste. It's also useful if labour, not farmland, is your bottleneck. Nutrition can be traded for labour further by feeding your cows raw haygrass (115% nutrition/tile of corn) or corn (239% nutrition/work of haygrass).

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[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Farm]]