How to protect what you have ?

[NorthernRaider]

(25 June 2012, 10:28)Skean Dhude Wrote: Tibbs,

We are thinking along the same lines. However, I have found no sure way of hiding the livestock. They are noisy, dirty and take a lot of food. How are you covering that?

SD my take on this issue would be to try and only keep smaller critters, Pygmy goats, Pygmy pigs, Chooks, Bunnies and fish rather than sheep and cattle, many of those critter can be caged or confined in outhouses is a security problem arises, naturally like all our preps it would make sense to keep the critters in smaller fragmented groups in different locations, not easy but always better than all egggs in one basket. One approach taken by some folks on an offgrid forum is NOT to keep a few critters in the confines of your land but rather flood the area with critters that can live semi feral lifestyle and hope that if TSHTF their are wiley enough to not all get killed by passing sheeple. EG if you have woodland then it makes sense to loose pigs , especially the smaller hairy and thus better cammoflaged rare breeds, goats, small deer like the prolific muntjuics, rabbit, grouse etc, and of course a partially blocked stream or a big pond is ideal for growing food fish. One of the offgridders added he would keep back some of his critters close to home, but if things started to go tits up he would release his breeding stock of mini pigs n goats etc into the surrounding woodland ??