Well I haven't got my rabbits trained to do much other than eat the excess garden greens ,make little rabbits (they're real good at that ) and make poo for fertilizer .but they make my girlfriend happy and keep her busy .Still working on getting chickens.

I think a stew would be the best survival food. Simple three part stew. Meat,potato and veggie. I think Ill have to get some small cans of Dinty Moore stew and see how long the shelf life is. I might be able to survive on it. Free

It has been my understanding that rabbit starvation can happen with any extremely lean meat as the sole diet; it's just that it happens most often with rabbits.

You can very nearly live on goat's milk, and some breeds have pretty high butter fat. What I don't know is if that would be enough fat to offset rabbit starvation. Goat milk, grains, winter squash, dried fruit....most chickens don't lay much in the winter, but you might get a few eggs; that would help. I be along about February you'd give a lot for a couple bushels of root cellar apples, potatoes and cabbages, though!


It occurs to me that I'm operating from the expectation that I wouldn't have much stores to draw on, nor anything like winter garden in place as I pretty much *will* have to bug out from this lousy apartment if/when SHTF; the only self reliance I really have *here* is my backstocks and what I've identified in parks, including my guerilla gardening. If a body has had a few months at least in place, it'd be different. That's one of the reasons that I'm such a proponent of goats...they relocate pretty easily, unlike rabbits. We do have goats, rabbits, chickens and even a pair of Blue Slate turkeys---free from the blindness gene, w00t!---and at least a trio of rabbits and a couple cages of birds would be some of what the goats would pack/cart out. But that's food months from then---if you eat your breeding stock, you're obviously SOL. You could stop and milk the goats any time, though, and they'd be having a *very* good time nibbling the track.

feral is the word you're looking for, a ferrule is a small metal clamp

I can't wait to get out to the Ozarks, I'm gonna clean out their feral pig problem for good. I hear they have no limit, just want to be rid of the bastards. I hate pigs but I like pork. Sounds like there's a simple solution in that equation somewhere.... A Final solution!

I guess they would need body armor for the pigs. I'm not really sure what a bandicoot is or looks like, I'm sure it's yet another strange small critter from OZ that's ten times more vicious than it looks. That's just how it is with australian animals. they look like any little badger or marmot and then they wander up to you all cute, bite your leg off, digest it, and crap it out before you can flinch.

The only ones that really creep me out are the koalas. They haven't, to my knowledge, shown their true side yet and bitten off anyone's leg like all the other aussie critters. They just sit there all quiet and calm with that peaceful look on their face, you KNOW they're planning something evil.