Well everyone keeps being up plans for dealing with crazed marauder and stuff , figured it's because I don't say anything about how I'd plan on it ... So I'm just saying I have plans on it to save some folks down breath . Simple as that.

Every old farmstead I was on that dated back to before electricity had a house with dug well, cistern, or both (wood heat), barn (mostly for work horses or mules.......barn got built before the house did.....barn also had a hay loft and corn crib), chicken house, smoke house and root cellar. Big animals like hogs and a beef were slaughtered in Dec......hung in the smoke house and cut up as needed all winter.......then what was left in spring was canned when weather started warming up. Hams and bacon cured.......lard rendered......lye soap made.

If it runs on electricity, you don't want it. Cordless drills run on electricity. You will need hand saws (cross cut and rip), brace and bits, hammer and a whole lot of nails. Back then there were also mills for flour and grain, but forget that. You will need a hand cranked mill if you want to make bread or meal. You will also need that pressure canner and enough reusable lids to last you a while.

And good luck with that garden. There won't be anyplace to buy seed, and no seed to buy if there was.

My bad. Miss understood i thought u were talking bigger plans for more animals. I can understand now.

It's all good
But nah think I'll be keeping my critters down for a while . Been dealing with cattle since I was in diapers ..... I miss it but it's way easier deking with a hand full of birds and some small furry critters

Get pigeons.never haveto feed or water them.some of the old castles have big pigeon lofts in the tops of them.when a castle was under siege,that's how they kept fed.pigeons would fly out every morning and feed and water themselves and return back to the lofts in the castle every eavning.

House cats become feral very quickly. People become animals even faster and are the largest threat in society break down or just when they believe they can get away with it.

Its always good to know how to be as self sufficient as possible. But for short term its been stated above its cheaper to keep a good stock pile you rotate out.

check out the Fox fire Books

Keep a small bucket in the kitchen for egg shell and other compostable plant scraps to scatter around for the chickens, A lid will keep bugs down and/or keep the bucket hanging outside. Seems like just about anything on a farm will eat corn, whole or scratch. Supply plenty of water for them too.

Just thinking about more things if you’re building something for grain storage wood is best because of natural breathing of the wood, I’ve seen oats be 20 years old stored in wood bins that still germinate, I still say hogs are your best bet as they can survive on almost anything, also have some good hoes for weeding otherwise you get into the horse area to do work with, also stockpile some salt for feeding but also meat preservation.

This is from my great great grandmother/aunt. She was born in 1903.......

"The farm we run there on the West Prong kept us pretty busy. We hitched a horse to plow. That's all we had. We didn't have no equipment like today. You just had a horse and single-bit plow and a cultivator and things like that. We raised our own food and we canned most of it. We canned all of our food from garden season to the next. String beans, greens, black-eyed peas, and meat. We canned most of our meat. We killed our meat and canned or smoked nearly all of it. We made just about everything we used, so therefore we just stayed at home. That's why people used to didn't to to town to much, you know. Unless they wanted flour or wire or somethin' they couldn't make. We grew our own corn, and used to a mill here that grinded corn into meal. My daddy took our corn in to grind, once a week. Sometimes I'd tag along jus' for somethin' to do.

"Gardening was somethin' we done alot of in them days. Each year we had seeds that we saved from the year before. Part of our garden each year was the seed garden. We let things mature, you know, and go to seed and then we picked them seeds and dried them and used them the next year. That way you didn't buy seeds. There wasn't no such thing as storebought seeds anyway. There just wansn't any.

"O good night, we done everything, hon. We milked cows, we fed pigs, we fed chickens, we fed turkeys, ducks, everything in the world you can think of. And we plucked ducks, made our own pillows. Now I was just a child, but I helped do it. We had all of that river front, too. The West Sabinal run in front of our home, the river did, and when we wanted to fish, we went down there and caught fish. When I was a youn'un, the river was full of fish. Sunfish, catfish, big ol' bass. We had two horses that we plowed with, with a walking plow. That's what my daddy used in that day. But we didn't have a whole lot in cultivation. And we would plant that in corn, mostly. We grew higara or maizes for the chickens we had. When that grain matured we had to cut all of it. Head it, they called it back then, cause you cut the maizehead off it, and then you let that grain head dry and you fed that to the chickens. We didn't have to buy anything but flour.

"I'll tell you son, them wasn't bad times. People were happy. Everybody was your neighbor and your friend. If someone was behind in their crops, each neighbor would go help. Or if a barn needed rainsin' folks would come out and help all day. It was happy times, and we had good times. Course I wouldn't won't to live back there now, cause I've had these conveniences too long. But people were happy then. They knew they belonged to a community of folks that cared about 'em. "

Been thinking on it and there was at least sixty acres my great grand kept under cultivation on the 270 acre homeplace. Just in back of the house was the north and south fieldsfield divided by a lane. Don't know if he planted it all up every year, but the bulk of it was in corn. He also kept a cane patch, ribbon cane, going and a vegetable patch as he would haul vegetables and eggs into town on Saturdays. He had two chicken houses. He also had a ten acre cotton patch as his main cash crop on the other side of the property. The neighbor across the road kept twenty to thirty acres in corn as well. It was him, my grandfather and a colored family that lived on the place that did all the work. When the cotton was ready it was all hands on deck to get it picked and to market. My great aunt who was married would even come back home to help get the crop in.
He also had cows and hogs in the woods.

Granny would say that Make, my great grand, would work himself into the bed every year getting the cotton in as he had a bad heart and would work until he dropped and would take weeks to recover. He would eventually die in the middle of getting his last crop in.

Salt of the Earth Warrior. Folks that really Made America Great.

Good stories Chancey and Warrior.

For your grazers the nuclear grass will really make them grow and maybe even worm them too. Raise garden vegetables for your other animals and pets. The soil contamination from isotopes like cesium-137 persists for decades so maybe you can just wait it out ! A good protein source might be green friend tomatoes, but its mostly in the sauce where the protein comes from. Learn to improvise !

I mean, if something went over the edge and nuclear happened and just wiped it all off the map I'll just bend over and kiss my butt goodbye. I don't get that far into prepping, if we can't grow food, hunt animals, graze animals or drink water, I'd say we're pretty screwed altogether