(2 May 2014, 12:52)bigpaul Wrote: a non dairy cow in a field, or a bull or a sheep will probably manage to get out and into another field or into a lane, so will pigs and chickens, the problem is 1. when the winter comes and there is no grass and no one to feed them then a certain number will die. 2. any stock animal penned up probably wont survive as it will die of hunger and especially thirst, if their in a wooden enclosure they can probably break out but a modern steel one? I'm not so sure.
This is the kind of thing I'm thinking too. So my expanded thoughts on options 1 and 2 are as follows:
1. Totally agree. But cows have survived for year and even in countries like India where there is so little vegetation, they survive, as a species. The same will be true in the UK. They'll just do what the majority of UK critters do, stock up over the good months, and snooze as much as possible in winter. They'll behave like the wild boar that we already have. Some will definitely die off, no doubt. But the ones that survive...good eating.
2. Would it make sense to set as many free as possible before then?
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