Automatic cow farm using Railcraft

[TimstarrCraft]

Hey all,

I am working on an automatic cow farm using railcraft. I know there already are some automatic cow rails in Vanilla Minecraft. But I want to take this to a new level of automization. I want to have cows going around on rails, breed automatically (using feed stations) and drop off calfs in a slaughterhouse or something., But I am running across a few problems. First of all I can't seem to properly seperate the calfs from the cows , since they don't spawn on the same spot every time and sometimes spawn on the track . In vanilla this is solved by using paintings to prevent the cows from falling down, while the calfs do fall. The problem however is that in the modpack I am using (FTB Ultimate 1.0.1) the paintings will not "catch" the cows.

I've been searching youtube for some automated cow tracks, but I couldn't find any except this one.
This links leads to a video by Sixfreekazoos. This is kind of my aim in building this, but I don't like how the cows/calfs keep jumping in and out. I would like to have the cows constantly in the carts and the calfs to be seperated and sent to a "growing area"

Can anybody help me out here?
I know there are many ways to breed cows more efficiently , but it would be so cool if I had cows rolling around in my world.

 

[b0bst3r]

Seems like a ton of work you can do much simpler with Minefactory reloaded.

 

[tedyhere]

Aye MFR is the way to go on breeding. But I love rails too, look up the MFR machine that separates child from adult and use it in the build...very simple machine.

 

[egor66]

yep use the cryno"something cant for the life of me remember" to move calf to new pen with boarding track in it to pick up & then do what ever, but really mfr does it all with just 3 5x5 chained pens with spawner or breeder/cryo/cryo/grinder, a tad neater than the rup goldberg you wish to build, opps dont forget to collect the sludge.

 

[Adonis0]

yep use the cryno"something cant for the life of me remember" to move calf to new pen with boarding track in it to pick up & then do what ever, but really mfr does it all with just 3 5x5 chained pens with spawner or breeder/cryo/cryo/grinder, a tad neater than the rup goldberg you wish to build, opps dont forget to collect the sludge.

Chronotyper is the one you're looking for