Many townspeople mistakenly believe that if something happens, they can leave their old apartment, move to the village and live there as subsistence farming. At the same time, I often read such conclusions that I will breed pigs, rams, a cow, a horse and I will live without civilization and without money, but of course it’s hard but I will survive.
I dare to upset you with no such fallback.
He argued with a couch analyst who foaming at the mouth argued that his parents kept two cows, a bull for meat, a horse and ten pigs, and the house was a full bowl.
I tell him ten pigs will eat 10 tons of compound feed in a year until they grow up. He says what compound feed, they said they fed them with the leftovers from the table! I tell him have you ever kept a pig? Do you know how much a pig eats? She needs 2 buckets of leftovers a day. He is not and that's all, the hay says dad is one who has prepared.
4 heads of cattle need hay from 5 hectares, 20 tons of hay are needed, the collective farm was mowing it with a tractor. No says obliquely. How can you explain all this to him? Well, a person believes and believes until he encounters the cruel reality of being.
The meaning of any animal husbandry is that you buy feed, buy young animals, then feed all this good to the farm and get about 10-15% of the profit, if not one individual dies.
We buy a pig, our little pig costs 3.5 thousand, I buy a ton of compound feed, that's another 14 thousand, we feed everything, we get about 100 kg of pork, this is both legs and head and fat. Well, let it cost 200 rubles on the market.
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Total 20 thousand rubles, we subtract the costs we get 2.5 thousand rubles. If you keep 100 piglets and there is no mortality, then yes it is profitable.
250 thousand a year will allow you to live modestly in the village for 20 thousand a month. But there will be a sea of bustle. If you are a fan of healthy eating and are not ready to eat meat with antibiotics and hormonal drugs, then you can do it like me.
If you keep one pig, then the arithmetic is a little different, then waste from your table, plus slop and of course grain, and in a year there will be meat, you can eat it and are not afraid of what will blow you away and you will be like intestines on legs from hormones.
And the grain consumption will be 300 kilograms, such meat is profitable, 2 pigs are already just grain, you won't have enough waste. You can also grow potatoes for them, but again, in the absence of means of mechanization, this is simply not realistic, here at least you could grow yourself.
In the event of the collapse of civilization, with our yield, you will be able to grow your own grain for flour, you will need 10 children. If you do not have 10 children, then you cannot grow grain for flour, you need about 30 kg of grain per month to bake bread, this is 360 kg per year. And this is about half a hectare planted with wheat.
You alone will be very tired of plowing a horse and cleaning such an area with a sickle. Take a sickle and try to remove a section of grass 10 by 10 meters, a hundred square meters with a sickle. And everything will become clear to you. And in 0.5 hectares there will be 50 such pieces. You will not eat meat either, since you cannot grow grain for meat, even if you have a dozen young hands.
The maximum that you can grow potatoes is, in Russia it gives 200 centners per hectare. And our potatoes are growing, so you will cook them, because to fry them you need fat. And fat is animal husbandry. If you are healthy and strong in body, then you can get a cow, then you will have butter, sour cream cheese and milk. But for this you will need to mow and haul hay all summer. Mow with a scythe and carry on your hands. Because you will not be able to start a horse, because it is impossible for one person to feed a horse and a cow, even though you simply will not have time to fall in the field there over the summer, you also need to train firewood on a sled, and mow hay and grow vegetables. So it turns out that in our climate the maximum that is possible is potatoes and milk.
If there are many young hands, then add bread to this, if there are no hands, then without bread. This is roughly the kind of life that awaits you in the village if a technological civilization collapses. Because nothing grows in our climate, the grain yield is 10 centners per hectare. Whereas in Europe grain gives 70 centners.
Feel the difference. Therefore, if you want to live on subsistence farming, then go to the tropics, there you can get harvests all year round, no clothing is needed, no firewood is needed, no hay is needed, the cow can be fed all year round in pasture.
Better on an island in the ocean there you can still fish with a net, and there is fruit all year round. That's where you can think about meat, because everything grows all year round and you can feed a pig with bananas.
And then a year without bread on potatoes, then your teeth and hair fall out, in a year you will not be able to work, in 2 years you are a corpse.