Re: [GZG] [SPAM] Re: Shipping sheep [TOBECLASSIFIED] [SEC=PERSONAL]

From: "Roger Burton West" <roger@firedrake.org>

> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 03:53:31PM +1000, Robyn Stott wrote:
>
>>This means that the price of a egg would be worth a lot - especially
if it
>>was a fresh egg.
>
> Man, over that distance you don't ship eggs - you ship chickens!
>
> R

The idea would be to ship chickens to a nearby colony then import the
eggs 
to various stations.... Keeping chickens on deep space stations may not
be 
practical. After all, you would need them in a spinner station to have 
gravity (to control where they lay eggs, and to reduce the mess, after
all 
chickens are messy. Also you would need to keep then like battery hens 
(space is at a premium) - which animal liberation activists would
oppose. 
Chickens smell, and could overload elements of the ships environmental 
systems, and besides, who would be poor crewman assigned to clean out
the 
cages.

Having chickens to get eggs may be a nice idea, but it may not be
practical. 
It would be easier to stick to hydroponics, or vat grown protien.

One option for fresh meat (and not eggs) on stations was mentioned in
book 
Etan of Athos by Louis Bjold McMasters. In it she mentioned the space 
stations air recycling used algae tanks. To control the algae tanks they

bred newts which ate the algae keeping it under control. When the newts 
started getting to big, or to many, they would cull the newts for food, 
reestablising the algae newt balance. Of course Bio-control was very big
on 
Kine Station and could be worse than the police.

Robyn 

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