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I didn't know you can milk llamas and that they can pull carts. I always thought them as a curiosity on the farm. I know someone who has imported them in Nepal. I don't know how they will perform in lowland and swampy areas. Funnily enough buffaloes are also very protective of their farmmates...

I assume because Indiana is now a bastion of Republicanism, crazy that you had a democratic senator up until 2019. I have never been to Indiana, but I have been to neighboring Ohio. I loved it's rich agricultural tradition and Amish community. Although as a Catholic I was rather perplexed to...

Yeah, Water Buffaloes are love bugs who will never harm their owners. They are like dogs only more mischievous and less obedient, but equally loyal. I am from India.

I am both happy and sad for you. You and your husband were such a good couple. You were together for 25 years and that will always stay with you. My grandparents were married for 50 years and then my grandfather died in 2015 and my grandmother was totally inconsolable, but with time and our care...

Oh it never seems to go away, every couple of months there's a panic around this covid thing and then people go back to normal. How is it there?

Hii everyone, I hope everyone is doing well. I am doing a part-time job at my district magistrate's office so I was absent lately, today is a holiday and tomorrow is a holiday so I was free.

I have never seen anyone riding a cow or an ox, but we rode buffaloes as children from and to the pastures. I guess the cows are just too jumpy and buffaloes never seem to mind.

Even though I don't have any experience with llamas, but your experience is not uncommon. Some buffaloes are known to display strong dislike for certain individuals or group of individuals. Two of my buffaloes are only friendly with five people my wife, my grandmother, my father, my farmhand and...

You can always eat the unruly members of the farm. In my opinion the worst behaving animals taste best. I have eaten a lot of mean roosters. Cock au vin is hell of a recipe and the best French contribution to the art of cooking. Farm vets are indeed in short supply.

It's true for India too, but I was talking about USA really. Btw cattle are eaten in India, majority of them are killed and eaten illegally and India is second largest beef exporter. It's just that people who don't eat cattle, eat carabeef and it tastes good and is much healthier.

I am not 100% sure, but I read somewhere that mozzarella has become the number one consumed cheese in the United States. If that's anything to go by buffaloes are a better option than cows. Paneer, bocconcini, feta, brie and many other cheeses are made using buffalo milk. Paneer, ghee...

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I can't help you with the price, but I think somewhere in this thread I have posted a list of Facebook pages and groups that you should join. There you will find people selling and buying buffaloes. Try to get yearlings and weaned calves and read this thread. It's not all that long. If you don't...

Not so fast

10 acres is a typical holding in India and most of the East where there are a lot more farmers. More often than not their go to big animals are Buffaloes and pigs, not cows and horses. Water Buffaloes are much more suited than cows for small farms. They can provide everything that a cow can...

I am sure that by now you would have watched grazers taking their cows, buffaloes, sheep, goats on a busy Indian highway for grazing. That's a must have clip on any documentary made on India.

There is already a market for it. See in India and in other parts of the Old World, there is a thing called "common land" system. It depends on land use. So if I have a plot of agricultural land and for whatever reason it is fallow then I can't stop anyone from grazing their animals on it...

Fodder!!! Buying paddy straw and wheat straw and cutting it into small chaffs and selling to marginal and landless farmers. Also I will be trying my hand in YouTube.

I have seen people getting trampled by cows and ending up in the ER. Our last veterinarian was trampled pretty badly and had to go through multiple surgeries. Thankfully he was a government veterinarian so his bills were paid by the government.

Hiii folks!!! How is everyone doing? I am back after a long break. I was very busy these past few months. I am finally back for a winter break. I am trying to establish my own little business. If it succeeds I hope to stay here for a longer period of time.