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I've had a look at your maths - our numbers agree for horses (and chickens which I checked using your formulas), but disagree on cows. There are two differences between the way we've calculated it:
- You've done meat/(cons - milk), whereas I did (meat + milk)/cons.
- You've done everything in per offspring, whereas I've done everything in per day. I don't think this should matter, as it cancels out in the division.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around which formula is correct - both make sense intuitively.
I think nutritional efficiency still matters most when choosing what animal to use, since you can always expand the herd size until you reach the limit of the pen, but you're right in that the analyses should include something like the number of colonists that each animal can sustain.