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But there's a difference. Buffaloes are mainstream livestock, they are not semidomesticated like reindeer. Reindeer are in process of getting domesticated. They are still not all that different from their wild counterparts. Domestication is a long long process. Domestication must also be organic...

Buffaloes are very friendly animals, but they are not good for large scale industrial farming. They should be kept in more manageable herds. Ten, twenty, thirty perhaps fifty, I wouldn't advice more than that. It depends on how many you can bond with. They are sensitive animals, you cannot hurt...

We usually keep a herd of 10-12 buffaloes for personal use. We also engage in purchase and sale of buffaloes with urban and suburban dairy farmers. My home is in a very backwater and rural part of India where fodder is cheap and pastures are abundant. Fodder can be expensive in more developed...

Wow!!! thanks for putting this thread on the featured content!!!

So I found a YouTube channel made by a Norwegian gentleman who keeps Water Buffaloes. He is new to Buffaloes and he doesn't do everything correctly, but it's a good to see him learning and improving.

It depends, during the months of April to mid June there is hardly any rain and the herds have to travel longer distances every day to find water and green grass, typically a couple of miles. South West monsoon typically arrives in mid June. Officially the date is 15 th of June. During monsoon...

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Shepherds dog don't need much maintenance. They eat what the shepherd's eat, ours can also hunt.

Albais (central asian shepherd) is also very good for protection against large predators.

I tell you, donkeys will runaway leaving your goats to fend for themselves.

Huh, we called it cattle raiding. It used to be a problem here upto few years ago.

A female with a colt is your best bet if you can't have dogs.

Actually I didn't need to pull , I just had to massage the head out and the whole calf came out on her own. The head got stuck.

No, infact giving calcium during pregnancy is counterproductive. If you give them calcium then their ability to extract calcium from their bones is reduced which may cause hypocalcemia. I have never had a case of uterine prolapse in any of my buffaloes ever, I have heard that it happens...

The Cape Buffaloes are only distantly related to Water Buffaloes. They are not even in the same Genus. They are not a different variety, but a different species altogether. It's like chicken and peacock. Both are in the same family phasianidae, but they are completely different birds, they are...

What breed is your LGD? We only have Gaddi and bakkharwal (Kashmir sheep dog) who can't live in the plains. Marwari sheep dog is more common on the plains and are mostly kept by the the tribals. Alabai (Central Asian shepherd) were imported from Soviet Union back in the sixties and seventies...

We keep the calves at home so the lactating buffaloes lead and the rest follow and I stay behind them to keep the new buffaloes or the yearlings in line. We sometimes take them 2-3 miles away from home.

Water buffaloes love to roll in mudholes and bath in ponds, rivers and canals. Instead of using treats, you can also use water hose. This habit makes buffaloes less susceptible to ticks and lice than cattle. The mud on their body dry up as they graze in the sun and it chokes all the ticks and...

Buffaloes are animals who are never in hurry, they are calm and patient. So they won't mind if we get little distracted. By the way do any of you folks enjoy listening to these Greek Byzantine Eastern Orthodox hymns? They are deep and very comforting. Turn on the subtitles.

It is important to note that water buffaloes are completely different from African Cape Buffaloes (Syncerus Caffer) and American Bison (Bison Bison), they are not only different species, but they are from different Genus. Water Buffaloes are calm, docile and domesticated animals unlike Cape...