Jurassic Park Not!!! in Minecraft

Been away from Minecraft while I was working overseas so I am finally back and I decided to do a little bit of Jurassic Park via the Fossils and Archaeology mod in the X Mod Pack.

The idea is that you mine fossils and using some Analyzers, Cultivators and an Archaeology workbench you can create Dinosaur eggs. Those can hatch into dinosaurs that can be tamed. Now I have watched Jurassic Park enough to know this is not a good idea. But I persisted.

While I like the mod, I was a failure at working with dinosaurs as they all died of starvation (no matter how much I fed them).

I started out building a pen with observation towers.

I placed the eggs in each of the areas and waited around each egg to make sure the dinosaurs were tame. Below is a stegosaurus egg.

I was rewarded with a stegosaurus. I even built and filled a feeder (seen behind it). It grew up a bit and died!.

I also tried a triceratops and forgot that it only ate ferns or hand fed wheat (it does not like the feeder). It grew up and died. I even tried one outside the cage with ferns but it died as well!!

As a stupid idea I tried some Raptors. They survived but escaped after they went through 30+ pigs. I had to hunt them down and kill them.

I think I will not cultivate any more dinosaurs for now. I am now converting the cages into a new stable for the horses. More about this later.