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7 years ago

How To Raise Water Buffalo

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Water buffalo are used for ploughing and other types of work force, and as a source of meat, strong leather and healthy milk. They may be found throughout Asia and in addition in places like Turkey, Italy, Australia and Egypt to mansion a few. They are mostly found in places where there is a lot of rainfall or water because they get dehydrated quickly and need water and mud to wallow around in. The water buffalo population in the world is about 172 million, with ninety six percent of them in Asia. Water buffalo are known as carabao in the Philippines and are known as the national animal there. In India their dairy is a major source of protein. In Southeast Asia they plough grain gardens. One Thai farmer said, "they're the backbone of the nation and are very important to our way of life. "Known as the "living tractor of the East," they have since been introduced to Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. There are 74 breeds of this animal. The water buffalo or domestic Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is a huge bovid located on the Indian subcontinent to Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia, in Sri Lanka, in Luzon Island in the Philippines, and not forgetting Borneo. The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) native to Southeast Asia is considered a special species but very likely represents the ancestor of the local water buffalo. There are two types of water buffalo--each know as a subspecies--are located on morphological and behavioural criteria: 1) the river buffalo of the Indian subcontinent and west to the Balkans and Italy; plus 2) the swamp buffalo, located from Assam in the west through the southeast of Asia to the Yangtze area of China towards the east. The origins of the domestic water buffalo types are debated, although results of a phylogenetic research indicate that the swamp type may have originated in China and domesticated around 4,000 years ago, while the river type may have came from India and was domesticated around 5,000 years back. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the river buffalo was present by 2500 BC in India and 1000 before Christ in Mesopotamia. The kind was chosen mainly for its milk, which contains 8 % butterfat. Breeds include the Murrah with its curled horns, the Surati, and the Jafarabadi. Swamp buffalo more closely appear like wild water buffalo and are being used as draft livestock in rice paddies through Southeast Asia. Types of breeds range from the 900-kg (2, 000-pound) Thai and haizi to the 400-kg wenzhou and carabao. Kids get on the back of them to their wallows after their labours and wash their faces and ears. These animals are especially suited to tilling grain fields, and the milk is richer in fat and protein than that of the milk cow. Throughout much of Southeast Asia and South Asia water buffalo remain the key draft animals for cultivation, although tractors have substituted them in many areas, particularly where crops besides rice are produced. Buffalo, predominantly of the swamp breed is very suited to paddy culture. It's capable to flourish on coarse fodder and roughage hard to digest by other animals, and are found in all sorts of farming areas. Even in poor locations, small paddy farmers usually have at least one animal. Following maturing, buffalo can be used as draft livestock for 5 or 6 years, or until they are too old to work, then they are killed and sold for meat.


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