What’s going to happen to the animals?

They were all packed and ready to go get rescue in the last 1997 scene of episode 8 and i’m just wondering were they just going to leave the animals in that fenced in area or did akilah let them free and is that why they have no food for winter and have to hunt? i’d love to hear others theories on not only what they did with them but what’s going to happen to them to cause the girls to resort back to the hunt.