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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scotley" data-source="post: 4306150" data-attributes="member: 11520">OOC: Okay Alvar recommends we start with 25 heavy plows. The animals are just too heavy to ship more. To be pulled by a pair of oxen (just big cows trained to draft work) or 4 horses. In particularly hard rocky ground it might be necessary to use as many as 8 oxen in a team. We should take 40 mature cows/oxen, mostly young females (they are just too heavy to take more at this time) and 60 heavy horses. Another We'll need 50 harrows and 50 seeders which can be pulled by smaller teams. Alvar will buy the best quality he can find on short notice. Also 200 calves just old enough to be eating grain rather than milk for weight reasons (20 males and 180 females) to form the core of future herds. Additionally, 100 colts again mostly females. We'll need 180 days fodder for 400 animals. We'll need to hire 50 cowherds/grooms to take care of them and 180 days food for them as well. We'll need harnesses in three sizes to train the animals as they grow, so figure 900 harnesses/horse collars.Want to give me a price for all that JA?It is going to take up significant tonnage--figure .75 tons per ox and 0.5 tons per mature horse with the young being perhaps 4 cows or 8 horses to the ton. The food for 180 days will weigh in at 0.5 tons per animal, so thats 200 tons of food. We could cut that down to 120 days and plan on eating some beef if we can't keep them fed after we arrive. How much tonnage do we have to work with? I'm thinking the farm equipment will weigh about 10 tons.</blockquote>

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