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Article: Water buffalo: they're not just for rice paddies, anymore. (includes information sources)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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Domesticated for seven thousand years, water buffalo are one of the oldest breeds in the world. They are distributed throughout the world and it has been said that they are one of the most adaptable of animals. And although considered an exotic in the United States, they are a regular farm animal in the rest of the world.
With a world population of 180 million, water buffalo can hardly be considered an exotic. However, the United States population consists of roughly 3,500 animals.
There is a lot of confusion when people hear that we raise water buffalo. Most of them think of either American buffalo (a misnomer for bison), or cape buffalo. Quite unlike either ...