A farmer in Thailand put a giant water buffalo up for sale for 50 million baht (US$1.45 million) yesterday.
Forget a pool villa in Phuket, for the same price you could bag yourself one of the biggest buffaloes Thailand has ever seen. “Petch Lamkhong,” a three year and five month old water buffalo (“kwai“) from “Big Ice Farm” in Phitsanulok, weighed in at a whopping 1.4 tonnes at the 6th Phitsanulok Giant Buffalo Contest yesterday.
Buffaloes competing in the contest – a late celebration of Thai Buffalo Conservation Day on May 14 – must weigh at least 1 tonne to enter. But all of the other contestants looked miniature compared to Petch Lamkong, who towers over his owner, Sombat Thamelae.
Sombat, the owner of Big Ice Farm in Phitsanulok, said he bought Petch Lamkhong for 7 million baht from a farm in Bueng Kan province, northeast Thailand, in…
