Hey everyone, so I always kinda avoided using the flamingo for two reasons: one is that a habitat is so hard to build for them with the plant coverage, shelter needs, it's just weird, but second is because of breeding. I assume penguins are very similar to flamingo breeding since they form monogamous pairs but I have never used the penguin yet (I know, crazy!) so I wouldn't know. But I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or tips on how to keep a stable flamingo population (maybe max. 20) but constantly be breeding, obviously without inbreeding issues. I've built the habitat but now I need help with the breeding.
Flamingo Breeding
- Thread starter Aidan635
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Flamingo breeding is easy. Literally just get some flamingos and they will breed. They don't seem to inbreed much. They just do it. Not too quickly either. Probably the easiest animal to breed in my experience. Plus they live to like 60 so they don't need to breed often to sustain the population.
I always buy all flamingoes available.
Put them into hippo habitat.
Wait.
After few years there are many flamingoes, usually they breed into 5* stats. Then I just sell those who are not 5*.
Easiest animal in the game.
My biggest population has like 100+ flamingoes, lol.
Put them into hippo habitat.
Wait.
After few years there are many flamingoes, usually they breed into 5* stats. Then I just sell those who are not 5*.
Easiest animal in the game.
My biggest population has like 100+ flamingoes, lol.
Hmm... I always thought that the flamingo was the hardest animal to breed in the game. Maybe breed isn’t the right word... I’ll say manage and sustain a healthy population of around 20 individuals. So I’m interested now, what do you guys think is the hardest animal to breed in the game?
when I refer to breeding difficulty I mean breeding without causing incest and managing the offspring
They hardly inbreed. And if they do they have pretty good stats anyway. I usually do not care about flamingoes until I need to sell them. I sell those with worst stats and keep the good ones. I have never had to buy more of them. They just sustain their numbers and quality pretty much by themselves.
The only problem is sometimes when you want them in walkthrough habitat, they will get stressed sometimes because of guests. But as I said, I put them now together in habitat with hippos and they are pretty happy.
But I generally stopped to worry about inbreeding since I've found out that it actually doesn't matter. What matters are overall stats, not if they are related.
Yeah, Mandrills and Pandas I can see having a hard time breeding. On the other hand, I think the animals that are the easiest to breed are basically any hooftock with a "1 male and several females" social structure. Once the male gets all of the females pregnant, you sell the male off and let all of the females raise their contraceptified young until they grow up. The females stay with the herd, the males are sold or released into the wild and then you start the process over again with a brand new male.
Exactly what I do with Lions, and now I have an all leucistic pride. I also do this with primates, if possible