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Carabao
Bubalus bubalis
A breed of Water buffalo
Subspecies of mammal.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
For Water buffalo generally
No keeping details are recorded for this breed yet, so these are the species’.
Kept for
- Dairy
- Meat
- Draught work
- Mature weight
- 350–900 kg
- Gestation
- 310 days
- Temperament
- Usually docile with familiar handlers; protective of calves
- Forage
- Efficient grazers of coarse grasses and wetland plants, with clean water and minerals.
- Housing
- A wallow, pond or deep shade to keep cool, because they have few sweat glands. Strong fencing and shelter from cold weather.
- Good to know
- Water buffalo cannot cool themselves well and need water or mud to wallow in during hot weather. Their milk is high in fat and protein. They are long-lived and bond strongly with familiar people.
Photos, videos and notes
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Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Carabao
- Slug
- carabao
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Bubalus
- Species
- bubalis
- Cultivar
- Carabao
- Wikidata QID
- Q773939
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48