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Originally Posted by robj3
5,000kg meat at Tech Levels A-C:
eggs - ~33 hectares for egg-laying chickens which need 15,000kg of feed
*poultry - ~43.5 hectares for broilers which need 12,500kg of feed
*pork/mutton - 100 hectares for pigs/sheep which need 30,000kg of feed
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Does this equations take into account the free-ranging of chickens and pigs? Poultry (and therefore, egg production) have historically benefited from eating multitudes of insects as supplements to their cultivated feed diets. Incidentally, humans have simultaneously benefited from the side-effect of reduced insect pest populations.
Swine have historically benefited from the leftover organic wastes from human foodstuffs.
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Originally Posted by robj3
Raising livestock needs a lot of land and food at any tech level.
Labor requirement falls away quickly with higher tech levels.
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Each worker has a base and input cost "expressed in labor years per worker at that tech level" (p.237).
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In older times the "too old" and "too young" were allotted duties suited to their capabilities--knitting, poultry herding, sewing, other craftwork. The fact that they were not necessarily directly involved with food productions didn't mean that they weren't doing work that would have necessitated time and effort from a food-producing adult.