You'd probably have more luck getting info on cows by asking on a farming forum than the rules section of the paizo boards since.... well there's no rules in Pathfinder for this.
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Persistent about this cow thing aren't you?
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You know what? I have zero live cow experience, but you asked strangers on the Internet a bizarre question and that warrants an answer.
Rich aunt Wikipedia tells me that cattle hit sexual maturity at 2-3 years, breeding stock can live to 25 years or so, and that the interval between calvings is just over a year on average. So say 20-22 lifetime matings max. Cattle also gestate for about 9 months, it seems.
I have no idea where you're going with this, but enjoy.
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It depends on how much she fancies you :-)
All,
How often can cows mate? How long are they pregnant?
Thanks,
A
Cows are pregnant for around 9 and a half months.
Typically, cattle are only bred annually if that. If it is a dairy cow, that may actually be different.
The calves come in spring (depending on when you have them mated) and you have the day where the calves are taken from them (LOTS and LOTS of cattle grieving in the fields on those days, you can hear them trying to call for their lost calves all night long).
In answer to your question in another thread, someone already answered it as 8 gallons. That is accurate for today's Dairy cattle, but that's after a LOT of things that affect the cattle and how they are genetically.
Today it can be anywhere from 7-9 gallons of milk. However, go back 40 years and they only produced half that amount on average, or 3-4 gallons of milk.
Go even further back, and you'll have even less production. I'm not sure they have the technology going for them or the genetic know how in order to crossbreed and bring out certain genetic traits in the timeframe or scientific advancement that Pathfinder is in.
In that light, you may want to consider a cow in Pathfinder to only yield somewhere between one and three gallons (depending on whether it is specifically a dairy cow that has been bred for generations as a dairy cow, or simply a dairy cow that you've started utilizing for milk).
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All,
How often can cows mate? How long are they pregnant?
Thanks,
A
Pregnant isn't a condition in pathfinder...
babies may literally come from storks.
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All,
How often can cows mate? How long are they pregnant?
Thanks,
APregnant isn't a condition in pathfinder...
babies may literally come from storks.
I've always wondered if you get a fort save to resist pregnancy
so for how quickly a cow gestates in pathfinder
you must actually locate the nearest stork nest and determine the distance between your farm and there.
Then simply divide the distance by the MPH/KmPH of a stork carrying a calf to determine the average number of hours it takes to gestates
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Cowfinder!
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All,
How often can cows mate? How long are they pregnant?
Thanks,
APregnant isn't a condition in pathfinder...
babies may literally come from storks.
I love this homebrew entry considering which classes can cast remove disease o.O
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Mate? Gestate? I thought they were animated by negative energy--you know, necowmancy.
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Cowfinder!
oh, I always loved that game! I would always play it on car trips, trying to count the cows we passed.
All,
How often can cows mate? How long are they pregnant?
Thanks,
APregnant isn't a condition in pathfinder...
babies may literally come from storks.
I love this homebrew entry considering which classes can cast remove disease o.O
Birth takes nine rounds to complete.
Holy cow, that's fast.
Protipp: When your wife's in labour, don't keep eyeballing your wristwatch claiming "This shouldn't even take a minute!" if you value your life ^^
Still feel they should've gone with 'parasitic infection' but that's just me.
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The calves come in spring (depending on when you have them mated) and you have the day where the calves are taken from them (LOTS and LOTS of cattle grieving in the fields on those days, you can hear them trying to call for their lost calves all night long).
There's a yard of veal pens near me that I drive past regularly.
If you think it's sad hearing the cows for a day, you should hear the calves for weeks.
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The calves come in spring (depending on when you have them mated) and you have the day where the calves are taken from them (LOTS and LOTS of cattle grieving in the fields on those days, you can hear them trying to call for their lost calves all night long).There's a yard of veal pens near me that I drive past regularly.
If you think it's sad hearing the cows for a day, you should hear the calves for weeks.
The Internet didn't get off topic at all!
I find the comments in this thread to be more on topic than the thread itself being in this forum =P
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Operation Golden-Calf gogogo
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Mrs. Hathor and Principal Apis were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at of us!
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Sure, you could, but the cow will just complain to her girlfriends about it later.
At least it's not a duck, or a goose.
I hate posting from my phone. Haste not hate. LolCan you speed up the mating process with hate? Aren't there spells and effects that age you. Would these effects accelerate the Pregnancy? Pregnancy to birth in under 6 seconds.Yeah, I'm pretty sure Hate would end the mating very quickly.
So, you hate typing haste in haste on your phone, because you hate that haste might become hate due to your haste. Hast I divined thy hasty hatred?
I thoroughly enjoyed both Cowfinder posts, but the original posts are gone? That happen to anyone else?