indeed, to slow

I think the breeding rates have been kept in line with the original ones, BUT the max pasture size has been increased, so it can take a lot longer to fill up the pastures if you build them "too large", and that means waiting longer for them to start porducing meat.

What I usually do is start with smaller pastures, just large enough to get a herd of 10 animals (the min needed to split a herd), and once I'm happy with my food stores, I split that one so I have 5 animals remaining in the small pasture and 5 in the large one. I use the small one as a way to get meat when needed by playing with the animal number limit if I need more food, and let the large one fill up.

The problem if the breeding speed gets increased is that once large pastures are full, they already produce a lot of food, so it would make them way over-powered if they produced even more.