Curriculum · Module 17
Game, Working Animals and Dogs
Everything on the farm that is not a conventional livestock enterprise but still eats grass, costs money or saves it. Game comes with its own ownership statute and a second capacity ledger. Predator control comes with evidence that killing predators can make things worse. Guardian dogs come with failure rates. And rabbits come with a warning rather than a budget.
- 80 Owning and Disposing of Game Lawfully Settles who owns a wild animal on your land, what the certificate actually says, and the four permissions that must be on one truckload of game. State what the Game Theft Act certificate does and does not coverAssemble the four permissions required to move a truckload of game lawfullyIdentify the lawful route to sell game meat, starting from the species list 15 min
- 81 Hunting Method Law and the Problem-Animal List Settles which hunting and capture methods are lawful and when, and shows that the problem-animal provisos cover far fewer species than farmers assume. Work a proposed hunting or capture method through your province's decision tree before you use itName every species on the Gauteng Schedule 8 problem-animal list, and the predators that fall outside itState which damage-causing-animal methods require authorisation before use under GN 512 14 min
- 82 Two Ledgers: Grazing and Browse Settles how to budget a mixed livestock-and-game property against two simultaneous capacity ledgers. Run a grazing ledger and a browse ledger for the same property at the same timeIdentify an animal that draws on both ledgers simultaneously, and budget it in bothState whether species complementarity creates capacity or only revenue, and say which claim you are making 14 min
- 83 Predators and What Lethal Control Actually Does Settles what killing predators achieves at farm scale, and why the answer differs between caracal and jackal. Explain compensatory immigration and compensatory reproduction in a farm predator populationState the species-specific South African finding on killing caracals, and its limitsBudget predation and theft as annual line items rather than tail risks 12 min
- 84 Guardian Dogs, Herding Dogs and Alpacas Settles what a guarding animal costs and delivers, and why a herding dog must never be asked to do the guardian's job. Cost a guardian dog over a working decade against its measured failure and mortality ratesState what the South African alpaca and donkey evidence does and does not establishExplain the behavioural reason a herding breed cannot be left to guard 14 min
- 85 Working Equids: AHS, Harness and the Skin Trade Settles the legal regime governing every horse, donkey and mule in SA, and the intervention with the highest return on a working animal. State which African horse sickness duty applies to equines in your own zonePlan a lawful equine movement backwards from the vaccination window and the 40-day ruleIdentify the welfare failure points South African field evidence actually records on working equids 15 min
- 86 Rabbits: the Enterprise With No Lawful Route Settles the honest SA position on rabbit farming, and gives the structural test that identifies an input-selling scheme dressed as an enterprise. State exactly what the Meat Safety Act permits and forbids for rabbit meat in South AfricaApply the structural test that separates a farming enterprise from an input-selling schemeIdentify the two uses of rabbits that are defensible on a South African smallholding 13 min