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minus-square@jaybonelinkEnglish3•2 months agoSeems like you’d be better off with chickens rather than pigs and cows. Unless you plan to keep the pigs and cows until you reach some destination. A constant source of eggs seems better if you are traveling a long distance.
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish4•2 months agoI imagine they were killed off pretty quickly. The HMS Victory had a crew of some 800 men - if you assume 10% of them were officers, that’s enough to eat a pig down to the bones every day.
Seems like you’d be better off with chickens rather than pigs and cows.
Unless you plan to keep the pigs and cows until you reach some destination.
A constant source of eggs seems better if you are traveling a long distance.
I imagine they were killed off pretty quickly. The HMS Victory had a crew of some 800 men - if you assume 10% of them were officers, that’s enough to eat a pig down to the bones every day.