DominusNovus said:Uhhh, they usually killed most of the animals in the fall for this very reason. Autumn is still the peak season for selling (read: slaughtering) animals. They just kept the minimum around.
But you're right, what else could they eat? Animals are totally incapable of eating wheat, oats, etc.![]()
Unfortunately the evidence is clear that animal domestication (especially cattle and horses) came before the agricultural revolution. Unless you think that people gathered wild grasses like emmer and wild oats to feed them.
Perhaps the domestication of animals led to the domestication of plants to allow them to be fed a higher standard of feed during winter. Storing wild oats and emmer is hardly different to storing hay I would think. Feeding animals grains is hardly likely to come before feeding them hay.