An Introduction to Buffaloes

[River Buffaloes]

What would you supplement with? You might add to NOT use a soy based milk replacer. We raised 2 bottle lambs last winter and I bought a soy based milk replacer, Dumor. It stunk, they didn't like it and it gave them runny poop. We were raising them on a formula of
1 gallon whole cow milk
1 can evaporated milk
1 cup cultured buttermilk

Pour out 2 cups milk, add evaporated milk and buttermilk.

That formula worked great. I had the milk replacer as back up. We had record breaking cold, ice and snow, temperatures to -6F and the grocery store shelves were bare. I had the neighborhood on milk patrol, as milk was hard to find and there were limits on how much you could buy. I wound up using the milk replacer to stretch out the formula. But I certainly learned my leesson on milk replacer!

See cow's milk is mainly deficient in calcium, protein and fat. Anything that bring these three nutrients up can be used. As you may already know that I don't use milk replacers and those who do use buffalo replacer. What I have heard from the States that they use lamb replacer or goat milk replacer. When they use cow milk replacer they supplement for calcium, protein and fat. Some I have heard use groundnut oil, cod liver oil, calcium and stuff like that.

 

[River Buffaloes]

So it's raining for almost a week and it's going to rain for like a week more.

 

[River Buffaloes]

For three days in a row I got drenched in rain while grazing my Buffaloes. Buffaloes are enjoying the rain. This Buffalo is going into the shrubs to decorate her horns. They don't eat that weed they just put shrubs and other plants

on their horns for some reason.

 

[Baymule]

There you are! What lush grass! That is a pretty picture with the buffalo, like the farmlands.

 

[River Buffaloes]

There you are! What lush grass! That is a pretty picture with the buffalo, like the farmlands.

Yes monsoon type climate is very conducive to agriculture (generally)

you can see the village in the background. In Old World settlements are different, homes are clustered together and it is surrounded by farm lands

 

[River Buffaloes]

Several villages have been flooded after more than a week of early monsoon rains in the catchment areas of the Gandak and Burhi Gandak rivers in Nepal and north Bihar. We have received heavy rain every day since the arrival of Monsoon. This year Monsoon is widespread and highly active in Bihar. Within a week of it's arrival we have received more than 8 inches of rain.

Affected districts include West Champaran, East Champaran, Gopalganj and Muzaffarpur. Other rivers including the Bagmati, Koshi, Kamla Balan, Bhuthi Balan and Ghaghara are also in spate due to heavy rains.

The rising waters of the Gandak have washed away roads, small bridges and are threatening embankments. The Gandak is flowing above the danger mark. We have no power, we are using government provided solar panel to recharge our phones and to light bulbs, but we didn't receive enough sunlight to recharge the batteries. We got sunlight only two days and only for a couple of hours.

The rising Gandak forced the administration June 16 to open all 36 sluice gates of the Gandak Barrage at Valmiki Nagar and release water.

Several towns of the West Champaran district, including Bagaha, Bettiah and Narkatiaganj have been inundated with 2-3 feet of floodwater.

We never expected so much rain soon after the monsoon entered the state. We were not fully prepared for the flood. Our surrounded by floodwater. We are totally cut off as roads had been washed away. But no government agencies officials has come so far to help us.


Our state is not new to floods, but we were taken by surprise by the amount of rainfall we received within a week after the monsoon entered. Heavy rainfall in the state is normal during July and August.

 

[Kusanar]

Ugh, I guess at least the buffalo like water...

 

[Baymule]

That is a lot of rain. You are surrounded by water? What about the crop lands, I guess they are under water.

 

[Bruce]

I know some areas here in the USA that would love to take SOME of that rain off your hands! Feast or famine with rain it seems.

 

[River Buffaloes]

Several villages have been flooded after more than a week of early monsoon rains in the catchment areas of the Gandak and Burhi Gandak rivers in Nepal and north Bihar. We have received heavy rain every day since the arrival of Monsoon. This year Monsoon is widespread and highly active in Bihar. Within a week of it's arrival we have received more than 8 inches of rain.

Affected districts include West Champaran, East Champaran, Gopalganj and Muzaffarpur. Other rivers including the Bagmati, Koshi, Kamla Balan, Bhuthi Balan and Ghaghara are also in spate due to heavy rains.

The rising waters of the Gandak have washed away roads, small bridges and are threatening embankments. The Gandak is flowing above the danger mark. We have no power, we are using government provided solar panel to recharge our phones and to light bulbs, but we didn't receive enough sunlight to recharge the batteries. We got sunlight only two days and only for a couple of hours.

The rising Gandak forced the administration June 16 to open all 36 sluice gates of the Gandak Barrage at Valmiki Nagar and release water.

Several towns of the West Champaran district, including Bagaha, Bettiah and Narkatiaganj have been inundated with 2-3 feet of floodwater.

We never expected so much rain soon after the monsoon entered the state. We were not fully prepared for the flood. Our surrounded by floodwater. We are totally cut off as roads had been washed away. But no government agencies officials has come so far to help us.


Our state is not new to floods, but we were taken by surprise by the amount of rainfall we received within a week after the monsoon entered. Heavy rainfall in the state is normal during July and August.

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The problem is that the if we release the Buffaloes, it will be difficult to herd them back. There's a Hindi saying "the Buffalo is gone in Water" it means the task has become complicated