It's almost always going to be easier to breed-and-kill captives than hunt wild ones. And you're aiming to make the bounty high enough that hunting the wild ones looks like a good idea.
I think the best method I've seen for crowd-sourced profit-driven vermin control is discovering that the vermin are (in fact) tasty, and more tasty and valuable if wild caught than the tacky farm-raised kind.
IIRC it was Thailand? that had a problem with jungle rats eating crops, which improved after the hungry farmers discovered that wild jungle rats, raised on wild nuts and seeds and human-grade food crops are healthy, fat, and tasty. Unlike urban Norway rats raised on garbage, which might be fat but aren't healthy for you and are notably less tasty.
And it was cheaper to catch the rats, roast them, and sell them to city people as street food (rat onna stick!) than it was to use the precious food crops to fatten them up to the same standards.
So, sudden drop in the rat population, no notable farming. I don't think it fixed the situation, but it mitigated it.
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Date: 2014-07-29 08:51 pm (UTC)... Or just tax the snake farms ...
It was Vetinari's solution at least.
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Date: 2014-07-30 08:45 pm (UTC)IIRC it was Thailand? that had a problem with jungle rats eating crops, which improved after the hungry farmers discovered that wild jungle rats, raised on wild nuts and seeds and human-grade food crops are healthy, fat, and tasty. Unlike urban Norway rats raised on garbage, which might be fat but aren't healthy for you and are notably less tasty.
And it was cheaper to catch the rats, roast them, and sell them to city people as street food (rat onna stick!) than it was to use the precious food crops to fatten them up to the same standards.
So, sudden drop in the rat population, no notable farming. I don't think it fixed the situation, but it mitigated it.
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