Buffalo Breeds

Question 1

Buffalo breeds:
- dairy and draft breeds
- usually dark gray to black
- often have white markings on the head and tail
- have sickle or cresent shaped horns

Answer 1

Anatolian Buffalo

Question 2

Buffalo breeds:
- Feedlots have been established to turn out young male buffalo.
- growth rates appear similar to the brahman cross
- Fertility is generally excellent

Answer 2

Australian Buffalo

Question 3

Buffalo breeds:
- Kept as draft animal and for milk production
- grey-black color with short curved horns
- Varieties include: Baladi (lower Egypt) and Saidi (Upper Egypt)

Answer 3

Egyptian

Question 4

Buffalo breeds:
- Milk type buffalo
- color is solid black
- massive animals
- horns are small and spirally twisted hence called the name
- the Udder is large and strong, and longevity of production is long

Answer 4

Kundi

Question 5

Buffalo breeds:
- Swamp type Buffalo found in Western Malaysia
- use primarily as Draft Animal
- usually dark gray and occasionally white
- have crescent horns
- similar to Bubalus arnee

Answer 5

Malaysian

Question 6

Buffalo breeds:
- Jet black color
- white markings on face and legs extremities may be there
- eyes should not be walled, cornea should not have whiteness
- Horns: Short, tight, turning backward and upward and finally spirally curving inward
- Lactation period is 300 days

Answer 6

Murrah

Question 7

Buffalo breeds:
- Milk type buffalo
- black and average weight is 800 kilos for male and 525 for female
- they have wedge shape, massive frame, small curly horns, and wall eyes
- often have white markings on their forehead, face, muzzle and legs.
- White switch on tails
- famous name Panj Kalian

Answer 7

Nili-ravi

Question 8

Buffalo breeds:
- Has high reproductive ability producing calf every 12 months under average conditions.
- 6-7 litters of milk per day

Answer 8

Pandharpuri

Question 9

Buffalo breeds:
- breeds originates in indo valley
- Black in color
- short horns growing backwards

Answer 9

Azeri
or
Caucasian

Question 10

Buffalo breeds:
- Originates from Indian Buffalo
- introduced into Europe
- Black, black and brown, and dark grey coat.
- Horns are flat at the bottom and slightly outwards pointed
- have compact conformation

Answer 10

Mediterranean Buffalo

Question 11

Buffalo breeds:
- Heaviest of all Indian buffalo breeds
- also called Bhavnagri, or Gir, or Jaffari
- usual color is black but sometimes grey in color
- Horns are inclined to droop on each side of the neck and then turn up to the tips, the tights are not tight as Murrah breed.

Answer 11

Jaffarabadi

Question 12

Buffalo breeds:
- Breeding tract of this breed: Kaira and Baroda
- Coat color varies from rusty brown to silver-gray
- Skin is black or brown
- the barrel is wedge shaped
- horns are sickle shape moderately long and flat

Answer 12

Surti

Question 13

Buffalo breeds:
- Domestic swamp type water buffalo
- native to the Philippines
- low, wide, and heavy build
- Horns are sickle shape and curve backward
- used mainly as draft and meat

Answer 13

Philippine Carabao