Sizing a Palworld breeding operation needs two figures. Only one of them is knowable, and it is not the one every guide leads with.
Mutation rates in circulation conflict by margins too large to be rounding — per-egg against per-attempt, and stale pre-patch values still being repeated. Rather than pick one, this page puts them side by side, which at least tells you how wide a margin to leave.
Cake is five ingredients deep, and milk and eggs bottleneck on ranch throughput rather than on gathering. The input-by-input cost is what really caps attempts per session, so it is what should drive base layout.