Oldschool,
I finally found my book. Wouldn't you know it, the box was the one stacked right over my old muscle magazines. It was still sealed, no less.
Many of your questions fall under Chapter 8, entitled "Manpower Studies: Eight People Care for 16,000 Animals"
Here's an excerpt:
Quantifying the Time Spent on Animal-Care Chores on the Ark.
The most relevant labor studies to tha Ark situation are those which give specific tiem allowances, under non-mechanized conditions, for the feeding, watering, and waste disposal for large numbers of animals. I have examined many such studies and summarized many of them in Tables 9 and 10. (the labor involved in waste management [table 11] is discussed in the ensuing chapter). In order to facilitate comparison of one study with another, I have standardized all the studies by expressing them in terms of seconds per animals per day. I assume a ten-hour day and six-day workweek even though some work could have been done on the Sabbath, as God permits work on the Sabbath for animal-care emergencies (Luke 14:5) and even routine animal-care chores (Luke 13:15)
Here's a portion of Table 9
Table 9 Labor Requirement Studies on the Feeding of Animals
No. Animal Description Seconds/Animals/Day Reference
1 Cows Self-feeder penstyle barns vs. stanchion barns 12-24 vs. 24-48 Brown et. al. (1950)
2 Cows Nearby ground-stored feeds: hay vs. silage vs grain 18 vs. 24 vs. 30 Byers (1952)
3 Cows Self-fed vs. hand-fed hay 12 vs. 18-181 Byers (1952)
4 Cows Self-feeder silo 10.3 Anon (1954)
5 Cows Overhead chute or nearby grain 12 Byers (1952)
6 Cows Grain from feed cart 30 Byers (1952)
References:
Brown, L.H, Cargill, B. F. and B. R. Bookhout, 1950. Pen-tpe dairy Barns. Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station Special Bulletin No. 363.; Byers, G. B. 1952. Effect of work methods and building designs on building costs and labor efficiency for daily chores. Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 569.
Carter, D. G. and W. E. Carroll 1943. Labor-saving equipment for hog production. University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station Circular 554; Anon 1954. Beats the silage tub. Farm Journal 78 (May 1954): 62.
Regarding you statement about carnivores, that's covered in Chapter 12: "Feeding Challenges I: Animals that Eat Fresh or Live Food"
A couple of excerpts,
Quantity of Meat Required and Food ...Only one-sixth of the total food intake on the Ark (expressed as dry matter intake) is meat or meat-equivalent. As elaborated below, both fresh and dry meat are relatively dense in nutrients and would have filled on a small fraction of the volumetric capacity of the Ark.
Economizing on Fresh Meat. Insofar as the feeding of fresh meat was necessary at all, Noah did not need to through the time consuming procedure of raising mice for the small carnivores and cattle for the larger ones. Giant tortoises could have serves as the primary source of fresh meat on the Ark. They have long been used for this purpose on long voyages, as thy can go at least several months without being fed (Campbell 1978, p. 53) or given water to drink (Blunt 1976, p. 91). In fact, many tortoises can fast at least the duration of the Ark voyage (1 year: Marcus 1981, p. 65). The use of fresh tortoises meat as food for the carnivorous animals on the Ark is facilitated on the fact that, in nature, many carnivores already eat tortoises on an opportunistic basis.
This is true, for instance, for kites (Keeling 1984, p. 12), lions (Pienaar 1969, p. 117), jaguars (Mondolfi and Hoogesteijn 1986, p 104), and hyenas (Pienaar 1969 p. 134). No manpower need have been expended to put up the tortoises on the Ark into bite-sized morsels, as carnivores (e.g. jaguars: Mondolfi and Hoogestejn 1986, p 104) simply scoop out the flesh from between the carapace and plastron without separating them.
A limited amout of fresh meat could have also been preseved by methods used by the ancients, such as salting, smoking, pickling, etc. (Jensen 1949 p. 181). However, in the event that the carnivores would not have accepted salted meat, honey could have been used by itself to preserve fresh meat for long periods of time, as had been done by the ancient Romans (Jensen 1949 p. 181).
References:
Campbell, S. 1978, Lifeboat fo Ararat. Times Books, New York
Blunt, W. 1976. The Ark in the Park. Hamish Hamiltod Ltd., London.
Marcus, L.C. 1981, Veterinary Bilogy and Medicine of Captive Amphibians and Reptiles.
Keeling, 1984, Where the Lion Trod: A Study of Forgotten Zoological Gardens Clam Productions, Surrey England.
Pienaar, U. du V. 1969, Predaator-prey relationships amonst the large mammals of the Kruger National Park. Koedoe No. 12.
Mondolfi, E and R. Hoogesteijn. 1986. Notes on the Biology and status of the Jaguar in Venezuela in Miller and Everett, op. cit
