Originally Posted by
Shutree
Who writes this stuff? After 6 years in Isan I have never seen a waterboo doing anything other than eating or sleeping.
There are rice fields for miles around me and there are a few waterboo nearby. They do nothing at all.
If they lead an idle life in the rice basket of Isan, then where in Thailand do they put in an honest day's toil?
I don't understand why people keep them. I asked the gf why and she says they are valuable, she cannot tell me why.
One of her colleagues had a pale and allegedly attractive buffalo, if you admire such things, for which she was recently offered one million Baht. She turned the offer down as too low. Two weeks later the beast got sick and died, despite an expensive visit to the buffalo hospital.
Nice to see them, part of the culture; 'a critical role in rice cultivation', absolute tosh.