buffalo

                                     buffalo                                                                 

  The domesticated buffalo descended from the Indian wild buffalo and spread widely in southern Asia. The buffalo was described in India around 2500 BC, but its use as a domesticated buffalo began recently, and the buffalo has proven to be suitable for watery areas in Asia and southern Europe. Buffaloes live in the tropics in the northern hemisphere, while in the southern hemisphere there are small numbers of buffaloes in                                 southern Indonesia and Latin America                                                There are more than 95% of the domesticated buffalo in the world in the Far East region, while in the Near East region, buffaloes are found in Egypt, Iraq, Iran and Turkey, and there are small numbers of buffaloes in eastern European countries and on the Mediterranean coast, and there are wild or wild buffaloes in Africa, Asia and Australia                                                                                                   In Egypt and during the Pharaonic era, the buffalo was not known, so it is believed that the current Egyptian buffalo originated mainly from the wild buffalo that lived in the Indian forests, and it is believed that it came from India, Iran or Iraq to Egypt in the middle of the seventeenth century AD. The Egyptian buffalo proved itself quickly and became the main dairy animal in Egypt. The buffalo in Egypt consists mainly of one type, but there are three types of it, which are Al-Buhairi, Al-Menoufy and Al-Saidi, depending on its spread inside Egypt. These patterns differ in formal and productive characteristics.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              And the highest in the production of milk is the Buhairi, which is spread in Lower Egypt and the Delta in general, and the least is the Saidi, which is spread in Upper Egypt. The Egyptian buffalo is considered a dual-purpose animal, as it is used in the production of milk and the production of meat. Dry ones and buffaloes prefer wallowing in the mud on hot days and therefore they prefer rivers and ponds with a hard bottom to bathe in and also can feed on coarse materials with low nutritional value as the buffalo is distinguished by its ability to digest foods poor in nutritional value such as straw and rice straw efficiently and this is due to the large The size of the rumen, and that the rumen content of bacteria that digest food is more in number and type compared to cows