automatic animal breeding?

[HoboDough]

Hey guys
I've recently been thinking, we have automatic tree and veg farms with the forestry mod, but do we have automatic animal farms? I have not been able to find anything about this anywhere so does anyone know of a way to automate animal farms in FTB? If not I think it would be a good addition to a mod like Forestry since that has all the other farm stuff. You could have the same design as the other farms. For example there would be a machine, lets call it a Feeder, in the middle (just like an Arboretum) which would feed the animals with their food type whenever they will accept it. This will make them happy and breed together which would create a little fella. Only problem with this is animals getting happy when others aren't which will waste yer feeding materials, but this could be fixed by only feeding animals if two animals are able to be fed. Then you'd have the Butcher (sorta like a logger), which you could set a certain amount of animals allowed in the pen at once and kill any extras. For example, if you set it to 4 animals allowed in a pen at once and theres 4 in there, as soon as a baby is born, one of the adults will be sliced, diced and grinded into lovely bacon strips for your sunday breaky. Of course it wouldn't kill the little guys since they don't drop any of their juicy meat. It would have to be powered just like every other farm. Feeding materials would have to be provided to the Feeder just like saplings are provided to an Arboretum and all the tasty raw meat could be transfered from the Butcher. What you guys think? I don't know if this was the right place to post this, I would've posted it on the Forestry thread on MC Forum but it probably wouldn't have been seen there.

 

[maid450]

You have the railcraft Feed Station for automatic breeding, is not as advanced, but you just supply it with wheat, carrots or whatever and it automatically breeds animals.
The killing is not easy to automate as you must make sure that you have at least 2 animals left, but maybe with some water separation (animals to preserve at one side of the currents next to the feed station and once they overflow they pass to the "killing side" by turtles/golems...)

 

[egor66]

the easy way is to make a t5 soul shard of each animal you wish to farm, then build any form of grinder, the one I like best with non agro mob is the TC type with iron golums to kill & wooden to collect drops, simple effective & there fun & cute to watch, water/turtles are more efficient but not as much fun, & does not use looping programs that can place a strain on server hardware, ie looping program reserves a set amount of server ram for each looping prog.

btw I use a 2 turtle & water system not the 5-8 turtles that most others seem to use as 2 turtles with looping progs can do the job & are less of a server strain than 5 to 8 looping programs, common sense over ascetics.