Detailed Introduction to Excellent Buffalo Breeds and Their Characteristics

Buffalo characteristics:

The buffalo is a large economic animal of tropical and subtropical regions, with advantages such as a robust build, a gentle temperament, tolerance of high temperature and high humidity, tolerance of coarse feed, strong disease resistance, and a long service life.

Buffalo have a high conversion rate for the energy and crude protein of roughage and a strong ability to digest crude fiber. They can make full use of large amounts of green roughage that cannot be directly used by humans and other livestock and poultry, turning agricultural by-products into nutritionally complete food essential to humans, and they do not compete with people or livestock for grain.

Common buffalo feeds include the following:

Female buffalo generally begin producing milk at around 3 years of age, with a lactation cycle of about 300 days, and the golden period of milk production generally occurs from the 2nd to the 4th calving. With proper feeding and management, female buffalo can continue producing milk until 15 to 20 years of age.

Buffalo types:

Buffalo are divided into two types: river buffalo and swamp buffalo. River buffalo are mainly distributed in India, Pakistan, and the countries and regions along the Mediterranean coast; swamp buffalo are mainly distributed in China and Southeast Asian countries.

The Chinese buffalo belongs to the swamp buffalo type. There are currently 24 local breeds, namely: Shanghai buffalo, Haizi buffalo, Shanshan buffalo, Wenzhou buffalo, Dongliu buffalo, Fu'an buffalo, Xinfeng mountain buffalo, Xiajiang buffalo, Xinyang buffalo, Enshi mountain buffalo, Jianghan buffalo, Binhu buffalo, Xinglong buffalo, Fuzhong buffalo, Xilin buffalo, Fuling buffalo, Yibin buffalo, Dechang buffalo, Guizhou buffalo, Guizhou white buffalo, Dehong buffalo, Yunnan southeast buffalo, Yanjin buffalo, and Shannan buffalo.