BUFFALO

• Anatolian Buffalo (Turkish)

  • dairy
  • draft breed
  • white makings = head and tail
• Australian Buffalo

  • dressing weight = 180kg
  • Similar growth rates = Brahman cross cattle
• Egyptian

  • Draft and milk production
  • Baladi (lower Egypt)
  • Saidi in upper Egypt
• Kundi

  • massive animals
  • horns = small and spirally twisted
  • udder = large and strong
• Malaysian

  • swamp type
  • western Malaysia
  • occasionally white
• Murrah

  • Jet black
  • horn = short, tight, turning backward
  • upward and spirally
  • loin = broader and sliding forward
• Nili - Ravi

  • small curly horn
  • wall eyes
  • massive frame
• Pandharpuri

  • Horn = long, sword shaped
  • high reproductive ability
  • Milk per-day = 15 litters
• Azeri or Causian

  • originate = indo valley
  • raised in Lorestan
  • short horn
• Mediterranean Buffalo

  • originates = India buffalo
  • lactation duration 270 days
  • developed pectoral
• Jaffarabadi

  • heaviest of all the Indian breed of buffaloes
  • found in large number in Gir forest area
• Surti

  • breeding tract = kaira and baroda
  • barrel is wedge shaped
  • intercalving period = 400 - 500 days
• Philippine Carabaoo

  • Filipino kalabaw
  • native to the philippines
  • low, wide and heavy build