[LS]

Those stupid English. They didn’t know how to farm, or hunt, or cut trees, or anything. Well, they knew how to make ocean going vessels. (Best Monty Python voice). “And the gunpowder. Don’t forget the gunpowder.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's not that "the English" didn't know how to farm, or hunt, or cut trees. It's that these Pilgrims didn't. They were city people, and Leiden's records show that half of them worked in the cloth industry, as weavers, woolcombers, carders, etc. Other occupations, as listed in betrothal records, included tailor, hatmaker, mirror-maker, tobacco seller, tobacco-pipe maker, midwife, and merchant.

The Pilgrims did not bring any large livestock animals on the Mayflower in 1620. In fact, the only animals known with certainty to have come on the Mayflower were two dogs, though it seems likely that they had with them some chickens.

The first three cows arrived at Plymouth on the ship Anne in 1623.

Therefore, it's not that "the English" were not prepared for survival. It's that THESE English were not prepared.