[Artemisia] A New Discussion - SCA Skills in a Modern Plague

[Redhawk]

I have thought about how I would feed my horses.  The pasture around our place would last only so long.  same with my cows.  each one of our horses eats 20# of hay a day.  So that much grazing would take a while.  I would be concerned that some one would come along and take them if they went to far from the house. Plus the pasture is where I would want to mow for hay.  The horses here at our stables that are old and crippled unfortunatly would have to be put down. If they can't work, they aren't earning their keep. It would be to much extra work to feed a un-usable horse. My cows if they arent usable, we can eat.  How to feed my dogs is a good question.  I guess the horse meat from the old horses.  Sounds terrible though I can't let them starve either.
Reality is, we would have to make some unpleasant decisions.
Red

--- On Mon, 9/20/10, Jason Mohler <darkside at bresnan.net> wrote:


From: Jason Mohler <darkside at bresnan.net>
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] A New Discussion - SCA Skills in a Modern Plague
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 8:20 AM


On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:47:08 -0400 (EDT)
  BENGTA1 at aol.com wrote:
> In other countries, the barn was the bottom storey, the house above.
> 
> How do you guard your horses so they don't get  stolen? 
> 
> Surely that is one of the things dogs are good for!!
> 
> Bengta

I'm not sure if it's been addressed yet, but what about fodder/forage for the 
horses? I don't have any experience with the care and feeding of horses, but I 
was under the impression that they had some definite nutritional requirements 
that were hard to find naturally in Artemisia. Maybe goats and dogs would be 
better to have, at least as pack animals.

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Rapier Marshal, Casteleone Nuevo
http://ancientartemisian.blogspot.com/
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