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Oh yes now I see, Mr Snickers look very young in that picture. My bad!!! He is a handsome young goat non the less. What kind of trees and bushes do you plant for goats? Where I live goats love the leaves of strangler fig, mahua, acacia, jackfruit, Sal, Mango, guava etc.

Mr Snickers is a lovely goat, but why remove his horns though? If we remove the horns of our goats, no one will give us a good price for them? Even deformed, broken or 'wrong' horns can reduce the price of the animals. Only recently people have started dehorning their cattle, but many people...

Buffaloes are more suitable for plains and valleys, they are not as quick on their toes as cows, yaks or goats, that makes them less suitable for rugged mountainous regions. Though there are certain breeds of River Buffaloes like Nepalese Mountain Buffaloes, Nepalese Hill Buffaloes, Azi Kheli...

I have not yet settled on a breed but I have a few in mind. Beetal, Barbari and Black Bengal are top three.

Oh Water Buffaloes are sure a very important livestock animals. They are triple purpose and hardy. They produce a superior quality milk with 7.2-12.5% fat content that is twice or thrice than that of cow milk, their milk contains 2 grams of calcium per litre as opposed to just 1.2 grams of cows...

I have a few hundred chickens and also ducks, turkeys, geese and guinea fowl, they tend to take more time time than the water buffaloes. However during calving season and during the pastoral season buffaloes also take some work because you have to take them to the pasture and then bring them...

Buffaloes were again domesticated around four thousand years ago in East Asia as a dual purpose livestock with emphasis on working abilities of the animal. They developed into what we call swamp buffaloes. They are more stocky and comparatively smaller than river buffaloes. Their horns are...

Water buffaloes (bubalus Bubalis) were domesticated twice from now critically endangered Asian wild buffaloes (bubalus Arnee). Water buffaloes are true buffaloes and are the largest members of the family bovidae which contains species such as cattle, Cape buffalo, bison, yak, antelopes, goats...

Heyyy, welcome to the herd!!! I am kinda new to this forum too. I joined byh soon after I joined byc, but then I was fairly disappointed to see no buffalo people on this forum because buffaloes are one of the most important livestock in the world. I am planning to add goats to our farm so I...

Your land very suitable for a herd of buffaloes. Buffaloes thrive on rough tropical pastures. They graze in a rather tight formation unlike cows who spread out when grazing. Perhaps a small herd of dairy buffaloes is what you need. It's hot and humid and it's raining cats and dogs, just like...