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  1. burroughs85

    What kinds/breeds/varieties of domestic (livestock/pets) and game animals and birds would do well on a 65-square-mile tropical island?

    It's serious if you are dreaming about owning a private island in the tropics and want to colonize it with some degree of farming and also offer sport hunting to tourists. How will a German shepherd, an American quarter horse or even a Holstein cow and a Labrador retriever handle the heat and...
  2. burroughs85

    What kinds/breeds/varieties of domestic (livestock/pets) and game animals and birds would do well on a 65-square-mile tropical island?

    Any North American and European species? How well would any of these animals do healthwise and what special provisions would man have to make to keep them in tropical island climates with vegetation/terrain/soil types typical of these regions of the world? Tropical climate is generally hot and...
  3. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    I don't own cows and never will. I personally won't have to worry about livestock, I don't even have, crossing roads. For those who own cows needing to cross roads, I will let them duke it out with whatever public or private entities who maintain the livestock crossing provisions.
  4. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    A real-world example of what I have on my model train layout would probably not be the cheapest solution for a cattle/animal/people/vehicle crossing in a rural area but the safest. It prevents the disruption of road and rail traffic as well.
  5. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    Get a clue: it's all about getting cows across the road safely and about doing such as economically feasible as possible, not rocket science.
  6. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    On my model RR layout, that is actually public property, the county, where the cattle go under the bridges. The local ranchers just use the public trail system to move stock on the hoof. The barbed wire is also maintained by the make-believe county. Your county tax dollars hard at work.
  7. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    A middleman (third party, agent) who buys and sells livestock. Something like a "stock" broker. I have the real estate and automobile trades in mind but the cow business might be different than selling homes and cars. Are cattle buyers as shrewd as horse traders are reputed to be?
  8. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    Probably more costly to construct and maintain than the model I have pictured. That is a wildlife overpass. They probably still had to shut the highway down to construct that.
  9. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    The local taxpayers get something to boot for their money: it's not only for livestock on the drive (cows and sheep) but also for recreational trail users, hunters and wild animal migration. Many people and animals can cross under the roads and no living things or vehicles ever get damaged. I'm...
  10. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    Will gunfire stop those bigger and heavier trains? On my model RR layout, the fictitious "Squatch County" maintains that underpass and it's funded by fictitious tax dollars. The local taxpayers get something to boot for their money: it's not only for livestock on the drive (cows and sheep) but...
  11. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    In the model underpass as I have shown, it's a question of who owns, constructs, operates and maintains this infrastructure. In my example, there has to be enough bridge clearance for mounted horsemen and off-road vehicles. My example has 12 feet of head room. In my fictitious, example, it's...
  12. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    Finally, I settled for a steel girder road bridge with side plates and concrete abutments to match the railroad bridge. Prototypically, an American civil engineering design. Masonry bridges in modern times are more of a European thing.
  13. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    I have made improvements to my cattle underpass by reinforcing it with concrete under the road bridges to prevent erosion. I improved my road bridge with better-looking masonry wall. The road overpass is about 65 feet across. The clearance is enough for mounted horsemen and vehicles to pass...
  14. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    In some places, cattle must cross a highway or a railroad line directly. What is done to prevent vehicles or trains from hitting cows at these crossings? The railroad line could be fast: maybe something like 50 to 70 MPH, with heavy freights barreling through. Let's say one is driving cows...
  15. burroughs85

    How do you protect your livestock on the range from becoming instant highway hamburger?

    Cattle Drive with Underpass in Rural Northwestern America in a Virtual Outdoor 1/10th Scale Model Railroad Layout The underpass saves cattle and vehicles and trains and saves people in vehicles. Also a safe crossing for wild animals and human hikers and their dogs. You can probably guess what...
  16. burroughs85

    What in the devil is the deal with egg and chicken prices these days?

    Most of the humans species doesn't farm anymore. At one time, most Americans were into some degree of ag work. Thank you handful of farmers, commercial fishermen, beekeepers, horticulturalists, truck gardeners, nurserymen, commercial hunters, sheepmen and ranchers for feeding, medicating and...
  17. burroughs85

    What in the devil is the deal with egg and chicken prices these days?

    I just got a deal from Walmart on chicken. They threw in about $9 worth of skinless chicken breast that was not even on my curbside order. I was not charged for it at all. Frozen chicken thighs are still much cheaper than breast.
  18. burroughs85

    What in the devil is the deal with egg and chicken prices these days?

    People living in apartments don't have the option of raising their own livestock and crops. I just ordered some frozen chicken thighs from my local Walmart. They are about the same price as the Walmart frozen skinless chicken breast USED to be not long ago at about $2.12 a pound. Walmart frozen...
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