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combining animals
Recently i visited a house here (in Thailand) to buy some eggs and was truly amazed at their ingenuity. They had positioned the large pens over a pool and all the droppings fed the fish in the pool. The fish were sold to the locals and some netted and ground up to feed the chickens.
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breeds = (genetic) information
Just like it's crucial to save information concerning technology and crafts, it's perhaps even more essential to save the genetic information of good animals to have. After all, it could take thousands or millions of years to replace a lost genetic line.
Whatever animals you bring along for a 'civilisation' reboot, that's what animals future generations will have at their disposal. No more and no less.
Good to consider that 30 of the world's most popular domestic animals all stemmed from the Mesopotamian region... That suggests planning, for the coincidence is just far too great. Somebody saved animals and used them for the civilisation reboot of our own dispensation. It should teach us all something. For one, that i'm not the first to consider the importance of bringing along animals. In our own culture we grow up thinking the Noah story is perhaps quaint, but the truth is that even if you're vegan, animals are essential to culture.
Recent agricultural ideas have made clear that herding (large) animals, for instance, is absolutely essential for maintaining healthy environments. Grasses and other plants evolved TOGETHER WITH animals and they require each other. Animals are NOT parasites that live off of plants, but rather they live in symbiosis with plants. More often than not, plants actually NEED to be eaten by herds of animals. Desertification happens both when plants are over- as well as undergrazed.
So many preppers are also idealists or vegans/vegetarians, as well as city slickers, giving little to no thought to the importance of having animals around for after WTSHTF.
What's more, modern agricultural research and considerations show that a variety of animals is essential to good land management; just like herds in nature consist of many species living in harmony together, it can take a herd of donkeys, cows, sheep, and goats to properly maintain a field. Similarly, the scavenging work of scobies and pigs can be priceless. Rabbits, too, can have an important role to play, as can chickens, geese, or other species.
One should be considering to give the presence of animals a prime place in survival planning, not to mention considering to have a sizeable collection of different species.
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bats
How to make a bat house.
Key:
- rough surface
- stable temperature
- water source
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rats
A female rat can mate as many as 500 times with various males during a six-hour period of receptivity—a state she experiences about 15 times per year. Thus a pair of brown rats can produce as many as 2,000 descendants in a year if left to breed unchecked. (A rat matures sexually at age three to four months.) An average rat's life span is two to three years. Taste just like chicken.
We Ate Rat Salad: hot to butcher and prepare rat.
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