Keeping Animals Healthy after SHTF?

[Skean Dhude]

Mortblanc,

You make a good point there about food animals.

Of course you don't invest more than you have to. If you have ten roosters and one has the lurgy then you cull it and humanely, imo, means with minimal pain not it gets two weeks rest and you use valuable resources that puts it to sleep. However you have one rooster and it gets the lurgy you may need to invest significant resources if it can't be replaced easily. A £2 rooster will be worth a lot more after an event as most people with chickens don't have roosters and rely on there being replacements when theirs are gone.

Each situation needs to be considered on its merits and I can foresee a situation, especially with larger animals, where we have a single point of failure. A bull and a ram. Where we may only have a small amount.

Of course longer term we need to fix that but there will be a time where a single animals life will be worth investing significantly more resources than we would now.