how easy is it being a nomadic pastoralist?

[BetterDaysAhead]

i imagine it being pretty easy all you gotta do is walk around with your geel, goats and sheep, feed them, milk them and later eat them

 

[Apollo]

I would make GMO camels like these guys are doing.

 

[Marcus]

i imagine it being pretty easy all you gotta do is walk around with your geel, goats and sheep, feed them, milk them and later eat them

Thats basically it, but theres skill involved in the navigation and finiding grazing land for you livestock.

Its life on easy mode, unless theres a famine.

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

I would make GMO camels like these guys are doing.

i had no idea camel racing was a thing loool

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

Thats basically it, but theres skill involved in the navigation and finiding grazing land for you livestock.

Its life on easy mode, unless theres a famine.

i fear this lifestyle might've developed a lazy gene in some somalis

 

[firefox]

walk around with you camel, milk that hoe when you want and drink and kill your sheep for hilib and live life on easy mode

 

[Marcus]

i fear this lifestyle might've developed a lazy gene in some somalis

Mongols were nomadic once, it doesnt make you lazy. They had horses, we have camels.

 

[Alexander The Great]

I would make GMO camels like these guys are doing.

Sand nigga horses sure are fast

 

[Juke]

Where do you think Somali lazy work ethic comes from?

 

[Pipit]

One day you might accidentally milk your male ari

 

[Hybrid()]

i imagine it being pretty easy all you gotta do is walk around with your geel, goats and sheep, feed them, milk them and later eat them

It's quite boring to be a herder. I used to herd geel, lo' or adhi with my cousins and it was quite fun when you have company but usually herders herd their livestocks alone for 11 hours

 

[Gambar]

I’d be angry all the time.

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

It's quite boring to be a herder. I used to herd geel, lo' or adhi with my cousins and it was quite fun when you have company but usually herders herd their livestocks alone for 11 hours

inshallah ill try out the lifestyle one day

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

I’d be angry all the time.

lol why would you be angry

 

[Hybrid()]

The best part living in baadiye for me was the somali aroos. I used to meet so many geeljirre kids in my peers. I had so much fun.

 

[Hybrid()]

I’d be angry all the time.

And louder. Nomads will talk to you as if you're deaf

 

[Caaro]

It’s not easy at all, my mom would tell me many stories about geeljires and what they did for their families. Not to mention the dangers of the wild with hyenas and stuff. They only make it look easy because they’ve been doing it for so long, if you were sent to baadiye you’d have a very hard time if you were given responsibilities. Otherwise you could freeload. Raising animals isn’t easy and if you’re unlucky you can die any day.

 

[Mehdi Hassan]

Thats basically it, but theres skill involved in the navigation and finiding grazing land for you livestock.

Its life on easy mode, unless theres a famine.

Tell that to @AishaBarri, she thinks it's advanced knowledge to be able to survive out in the desert.

 

[The alchemist]

I find it laughable that people from the west romanticize being a nomad--a bunch of ingrates

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

I find it laughable that people from the west romanticize being a nomad--a bunch of ingrates

Many folks in the West want to escape the 9-5/Corporate lifestyle and become a digital nomad.