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<blockquote data-quote="BAGTIC" data-source="post: 253289" data-attributes="member: 3757"><p>My wife is Filipino and we I have made several trips to rural areas of the Philippines.</p><p></p><p>Some of these buffalo are huge and <strong>very well muscled</strong>. I don't know what their growth rate is. They do have a reputation for consuming coarse grasses that regular cattle pass up. </p><p></p><p>Most impressive to me is to see a 10 year old kid riding a 2,000+ pound animal down a trail or leading it by a rope through the nose. Don't know if this docility is typical but among 'family' animals that have daily human contact they seem very calm even around strangers.</p><p></p><p>Several years ago the United Nations (F.A.O.?) published a comprehensive reference book about water buffalo. I have one but it is in storage and I can not find it right now.</p><p></p><p>One of the things that impressed me is that there are '<strong>improved' </strong>varieties. India has develeped 'dairy buffalo' that produce about twice the milk of common ones. In Trinidad there was a herd of improved polled buffalo being developed for meat. There was a photo of about 5-6 young animals standing side by side and when I saw it I could not believe they were 'those things'. They looked like outstanding younf beef animals. </p><p></p><p>I am surprised to learn there is a dairy herd in Vermont. Last I heard there were buffalo dairies in California and Tennessee but that was quite a while past.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BAGTIC, post: 253289, member: 3757"] My wife is Filipino and we I have made several trips to rural areas of the Philippines. Some of these buffalo are huge and [b]very well muscled[/b]. I don't know what their growth rate is. They do have a reputation for consuming coarse grasses that regular cattle pass up. Most impressive to me is to see a 10 year old kid riding a 2,000+ pound animal down a trail or leading it by a rope through the nose. Don't know if this docility is typical but among 'family' animals that have daily human contact they seem very calm even around strangers. Several years ago the United Nations (F.A.O.?) published a comprehensive reference book about water buffalo. I have one but it is in storage and I can not find it right now. One of the things that impressed me is that there are '[b]improved' [/b]varieties. India has develeped 'dairy buffalo' that produce about twice the milk of common ones. In Trinidad there was a herd of improved polled buffalo being developed for meat. There was a photo of about 5-6 young animals standing side by side and when I saw it I could not believe they were 'those things'. They looked like outstanding younf beef animals. I am surprised to learn there is a dairy herd in Vermont. Last I heard there were buffalo dairies in California and Tennessee but that was quite a while past. [/QUOTE]
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