I’ve never really interacted with them, but from what I’ve read, they have no regard for much of anything.
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SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Horses can’t be beat in the post-apocalypse for speed, but for most other things you probably want a donkey or mule. Far sturdier, easier to handle, can eat anything, and has no regard for wolves.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
As long as there’s roads or smooth paths left, an ordinary person can do 200 km in a day on a bicycle. A quick search tells me that specifically trained horses can do 160 km in an endurance race. Sure a horse would probably be the fastest in a sprint, but a bicycle has the best travel speed.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
All roads are gonna be blocked by defunct cars. If we’re more than 5-10 years into the post-apocalypse, the roads are gonna be a series of craters. Still, a mountain bike will beat a horse in terms of utility. I wonder how the two compare in terms of repair-ability.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Horses self-replicate, which bicycles can’t do. Except maybe in the Netherlands, I think they do breed over there.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Not sure I want to watch that nature video…
0ops@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Bikes are pretty simple machines. Even if it rides like shit you can keep it rolling with duct tape, a hammer, and spit. Horses are brittle. Injuries that other animals walk off are a death sentence to them, and even with lesser injuries, it takes time to heal
Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
There’s a lot more roads than there are cars to fill them and the good thing about bikes is that if you can get past an obstacle on foot, you can carry your bike while doing so. Even if the major highways get blocked by the occasional massive pileup that you can’t climb over while carrying your bike, you can always take the smaller road. And where would all the craters come from? How many artillery batteries and mortar companies do you expect to see in the post-apocalypse?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Surely they would have had their fill at the start of the apocalypse, no?
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
So long as you have at least two, horses conveniently produce additional horses which makes repair-ability less of an issue. You simply eat the broken horse, if possible.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Honestly, as long as you have enough horses, you don’t need to wait for them to break in order to eat them, use them for a few years and upgrade to a newer model.