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Products:
In this country water buffalo are used for:
Meat
Milk
Draft
Leather
Horn
Also breed improvement through genetic selection:
Proper Nutrition
Management
Meat:
Depending on pasture conditions, the water buffalo can attain as much as 500 kg live weight at 2 years of age. Young intact males or steers are grown for its purpose. This animals produce a greater profit productivity and a greater value from the herd.
Meat is very tasty, very much like beef but:
56% lower in cholesterol
25% less saturated fat
Milk:
Milk is high in butter fat. True mozzarella cheese is made from water buffalo milk. The River type are milked in Italy, Asia, South America, and the Balkans. We have been milking since August of 1994. Our milk was used to produce the only fresh made Mozzarella cheese in the U.S. Now, milking is progressing in Southern, CA.
Leather & Horn:
Hides make a very strong, smooth leather and the horns are in demand.
Strategic:
A animal of strategic importance for much of the World.
Compared to Beef:
12 % less fat
55% less Calories
40 % less cholesterol
11-30% More Protein
10% More Minerals
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