From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Sat 19 Feb 1994 - 03:41:19 EET
David Dunham writes in part:
D>Assuming the well-off nomad tends his herd 5 days a week (if he doesn't,
While I don't speak for Sandy, I'll point out that bison are much
>his family will), he's got to have a 1C herd to earn 480L/season. And
>let's assume he's in the Bison tribe. A herd bison costs 1A (half of a
>riding animal). But a 1C herd is only 16 such herd bison. The herd (50
>cows) is probably a lot closer to 3C.
bigger than domestic cattle (Bos taurus). 16 bison cows are equivalent
in mass to about 35 domestic ones.
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