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Article: Asian water buffalo roam the range in Vermont: ; Creamery sells yogurt, cheese; ice cream due
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- December 2, 2007
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Nutrition info Water buffalo milk is richer in butterfat, with up
to 8.5 percent butterfat versus 3.5 percent in dairy cows milk.
Water buffalo milk is also higher in protein and calcium and lower
in cholesterol.
SOUTH WOODSTOCK, Vt. - Across the Quechee River, in a large barn
on top of a hill, Ichabod, a dulce de leche-colored bull, shook his
elegantly curved horns and chomped on another wad of hay. For
Ichabod and about 100 other Asian water buffalo here, this past
Saturday was just another leisurely afternoon at the only such farm
in the United States.
Yes, you read that right: Asian ... water ... buffalo.
A Midwesterner driving through this state expects to run across
the iconic Ben & ...