In an emergency, is it safe to eat the geese at my local park?

[KingD]

When you start a really interesting thread but no one replies.

This thread: useless and ridiculous but more replies in the first hour than any other..

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ok, if its the end of the world, and you get to the point where you want to eat trash-eating geese, then why would you have the time to make a pen, catch them (assuming you can find a male and female), wait for them to lay a clutch of eggs, wait almost a month for them to hatch, then at least 2 or 3 months for the offspring to be big enough to eat. This process does take quite a bit more time than hunting. This is all theoretical, of course.

Kinda like when covid hit and everyone ran out and bought chicks because the stores ran out of eggs for a week and a half?

 

[roosterhavoc]

When you start a really interesting thread but no one replies.

This thread: useless and ridiculous but more replies in the first hour than any other..

Do you have an example of an interesting thread where no one replied?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Ok, if its the end of the world, and you get to the point where you want to eat trash-eating geese, then why would you have the time to make a pen, catch them (assuming you can find a male and female), wait for them to lay a clutch of eggs, wait almost a month for them to hatch, then at least 2 or 3 months for the offspring to be big enough to eat. This process does take quite a bit more time than hunting. This is all theoretical, of course.

The real question here is porque no los dos? (Why not both?)

Pen up as many as you can. Separate all the ladies and 1-2 ganders. Eat the extra ganders, breed the ladies. That's how you start to move from hunter/gatherer to agrarian.

Meanwhile hunt any of the geese you missed and any other wild animals you need to while you wait for your newly captured flock to reproduce. Best of both worlds.

 

[SulkyBantam]

The real question here is porque no los dos? (Why not both?)

Pen up as many as you can. Separate all the ladies and 1-2 ganders. Eat the extra ganders, breed the ladies. That's how you start to move from hunter/gatherer to agrarian.

Meanwhile hunt any of the geese you missed and any other wild animals you need to while you wait for your newly captured flock to reproduce. Best of both worlds.

Sensible!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The real question here is porque no los dos? (Why not both?)

Pen up as many as you can. Separate all the ladies and 1-2 ganders. Eat the extra ganders, breed the ladies. That's how you start to move from hunter/gatherer to agrarian.

Meanwhile hunt any of the geese you missed and any other wild animals you need to while you wait for your newly captured flock to reproduce. Best of both worlds.

That's probably the best scenario with the geese

 

[HappyDuckie]

Kinda like when covid hit and everyone ran out and bought chicks because the stores ran out of eggs for a week and a half?

Yep, exactly.

 

[KingD]

Do you have an example of an interesting thread where no one replied?

No. I was being extreme

 

[SulkyBantam]

Anyone know why the 'world' has ended here?!

@duckiemum, if the world ends we are going to need to raise flocks and get back to breeding. Killing all the geese is not a long run situation.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Regardless of the scenario I would think most people’s mental health would fail them quicker than the 3 weeks or so it would take to starve. Besides nobody mentions safe drinking water and how to attain large volumes of it? I suppose the world is ending but the electricity is still on and you’re water is still available? The whole prepping scene is a hobby similar to painting little figurines.