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Jihadin wrote:What if the elephant accidently drink our existence supply of hooch? I for one am not going to walk/stagger a pechadonwhatever back to its pen...A drunk buffaloose....thats on a loose...and we're trying to get back in a noose....

Why would we put a buffaloose in a noose if the buffaloose was loose? Shouldn't we just shoot any loose buffaloose and eat them?

CptJake wrote:Elephants eat up 400 pounds of food a day.

That is over 70 TONS a year.

That far north you are lucky to get 6 tons of hay per acre per year (assuming 4-5 cuttings a year). That means you need to work 12 - 15 acres of hay per elephant. Cutting, raking, baling and storing hay is NOT light work, especially if you are doing it all by hand. Even with a tractor and the right tools it is not easy.

Add in the work to prep the fields and I submit elephants ain't gonna be worth it.

Jake

Exactly...more trouble than it's worth.


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metallifan wrote:

Jihadin wrote:What if the elephant accidently drink our existence supply of hooch? I for one am not going to walk/stagger a pechadonwhatever back to its pen...A drunk buffaloose....thats on a loose...and we're trying to get back in a noose....

Why would we put a buffaloose in a noose if the buffaloose was loose? Shouldn't we just shoot any loose buffaloose and eat them?

Dr. Seuss visits the apocalypse...

You know we're all going to go through phases of comedy. Dr. Suess, Sesame street...next be Transformer characters, then we're going to have someone talk like Scooby..I digress

Without overly complicating this with any kind of documentation it's difficult to crossbreed Buffalo with Cows, let alone Moose. Somethig about gestational temperature...vague memory. I'm pretty sure Moose are closer to equines than bovines.


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Or deer rather...

AustonT wrote:Without overly complicating this with any kind of documentation it's difficult to crossbreed Buffalo with Cows, let alone Moose. Somethig about gestational temperature...vague memory. I'm pretty sure Moose are closer to equines than bovines.

Nonsense. Enough beer and viagra and you can get anything to hump anything else. Give it a few months and you've got wierd hybrid drunken coitus freakbabies. How else do you think we got the Liger?

Wonder how long on a spit......what type of hot sauce we have again?

Jihadin wrote:Wonder how long on a spit......what type of hot sauce we have again?

The two basics

Jihadin wrote:Wonder how long on a spit......what type of hot sauce we have again?

Ligers can get pretty damn huge, 10 foot long IIRC?

Start the slow turn at 4 in the morning. On our half day off on Sun. Your choice of a half day. Sun morning or Sun Afternoon. Eventually we're going to have to go full seven as we expand our hold over the world when we implement the Muppets Action. Hopefully with full support of the council

We talked about elders...what about parentless kids?

Jihadin wrote:We talked about elders...what about parentless kids?

We give them all metal boomerangs. Duh...

CptJake wrote:

Jihadin wrote:We talked about elders...what about parentless kids?

We give them all metal boomerangs. Duh...

... Exactly, parentless children would be taken in, fed and cared for...they would be ,IMO, a great potential future resource.

Well....we do have a blacksmith that needs training...boomerangs seem a good way to improve our blacksmith skills...Figure we give the kids concentina wire gloves to catch their toys. We just make sure they pick them up and not left around. I don't feel like having a horizontal smile with my verticle smile when one leaves his/her 'rang in a seat

Bacon.

Pounds and pounds of bacon.

Prisoners attend the pig pen

If we're doing Fort Dakka, we're going to need a naval captian/aquatic expert/Semi-good Angler.

So can I join? I'll bring the rum!

Jihadin wrote:Prisoners attend the pig pen

And the cow pens. Cows and pigs have some of the most disguisting poop ever.

I'll work the horses, though. I love 'em. I was around them for over six years, and I can easily give beginer lessons to get people comfortable with them.

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Yes CHowder..though you have to do the Captain stance when called upon. Figure we can salvage a trawler to net in Lake Michigan. If we can't find a proper net...then I'm sure we have dynamites...if not...I'm sure I chemists can make something...four miles down the road from Ft Dakka

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Jake has horses and I'm sure we will acquire more horses in WI since there are lots of farms there. I'm sure all us will learn how to take care of our future transportation....a vehicle with no insurance...

Like, the Captain Morgan Stance?

Like, the Captain Morgan Stance

You betcha

Jihadin wrote:

Like, the Captain Morgan Stance

You betcha

Yep. That's what I thought.

Jihadin wrote:
Jake has horses and I'm sure we will acquire more horses in WI since there are lots of farms there. I'm sure all us will learn how to take care of our future transportation....a vehicle with no insurance...

Ah, missed that. Good. We'll rely on horses a lot...hopefully he's also a farrier and he could shod horses too, cause I can't do that! I've only learned a little

With Rum in the back ground...and if anyone burns the rum....... evil things will happen

Chowderhead wrote:Like, the Captain Morgan Stance?

Or Admiral Nelson - same taste, half the price!

The only good Rum. Try it if you get the chance.

I've seen it, but never tried it...

I'm more of a scotch/whisky person anywho

Think our taste buds will not care when we're in the situation we're in.....be a damn good trade though if needed.....for one bottle of goose we want 10 females, 2 cows, and a box of cigars

mega_bassist wrote:

Jihadin wrote:Prisoners attend the pig pen

And the cow pens. Cows and pigs have some of the most disguisting poop ever.

I'll work the horses, though. I love 'em. I was around them for over six years, and I can easily give beginer lessons to get people comfortable with them.

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mega_bassist wrote:

Jihadin wrote:
Jake has horses and I'm sure we will acquire more horses in WI since there are lots of farms there. I'm sure all us will learn how to take care of our future transportation....a vehicle with no insurance...

Ah, missed that. Good. We'll rely on horses a lot...hopefully he's also a farrier and he could shod horses too, cause I can't do that! I've only learned a little

I rather like they way cows smell, I roped for the family ranch and I guess you care less when your sweat and the horse sweat already make you nasty but sheep...intolerably smelly creatures. I vote prisoners attend the woolies and leave us the clean ones...but they can muck.
There's a lot more than making shoes to the actual shoeing of horses, a lot of it is actual foot care. You can even get away with not shoeing the horse or only shoeing in certain seasons. Slapping a shoe on a hoof is like the kid that works at foot locker, a ferrier is more like an orthopedic surgeon and running coach in one. If we are taking about Ft Dakka being in WI or MI you could probably shoe from fall to winter and go without in spring and summer, as long as the horses are kept pastured or worked in a round pen on the regular. One of my in laws neighbors has an especially good round pen that polishes his horses hooves so well they look new shod all the time and have big beautiful muscling.
Ps not picking on you mega, just noticed those were both your posts.

Always good when someone with experience is over watching the farm animals. Still say leg chains on the prisoners. I'm lazy....I rather not chase them down..rather shoot and walk up afterwards type of guy

AustonT wrote:Ps not picking on you mega, just noticed those were both your posts.

Ah, the farrier I've known worked the hooves and put on the shoes - feel free to correct me haha I'm still a horse noob