Went to the crocodile farm after the si khou bike meet yest

[backdoorphil]

Went to the crocodile farm in Korat after the si khuo bike meet yesterday. This is the 3rd biggest croc farm in Thailand.



We're told there's 30,000 crocodiles ( seems high, but thats what we were told) here on 1,000 rai. They spend 30,000 baht a day on chickens for food, mostly heads as the heads are cheaper by weight.



Biggest ones we saw there were about 4 metres & there were 100's that length.

All the things you can see in the water are croc heads.






Apparently there is a slump in the croc market, crocs they used to sell for 4,000 bht, now only sell for 500 bht.

This is kinda why i posted this

[monsterman]

Did you buy a new handbag ?

[daewoo]

I went to the big one at Samut Prakan a few years ago...

WHat is the market for Crocodile anyway??? Meat? for eating? skin? for boots?

Cheers,
Daewoo

[backdoorphil]

They told me the big market is shipping them to Europe (France) for bags and belts.

He showed us one in a cold room next to his house that had been skinned and packed in salt. The skin was worth 70,000 baht.

The lesser quality ones are used for meat.

I went to the big one at Samut Prakan a few years ago...

WHat is the market for Crocodile anyway??? Meat? for eating? skin? for boots?

Cheers,
Daewoo

[monsterman]

Croc Meat tastes good too.

[daewoo]

Of course, when I have had it it was at a top restaurant in Sydney and cost (someone else) a bomb...