Draught performance of water buffalo and cattle in the Philippines
1992
Castro Jr., E.C. | Luna, C.C. De | Sevilla, C.C.(University of the Philippines at Los Banos College, Laguna (Philippines). Institute of Animal Science)
While buffalo and cattle provide the bulk of power input for all farming systems in the Philippines, little attention, in terms of research and development, has been given towards undrestanding and improving the draught capacity of these animals. In this paper, results of a number of research trials on the draught capacity and physiological response of the Philippine water buffalo or the carabao and their grades of Murrah and Nili-Ravi are summarized, and those of the first studies to be conducted on Philippine draught cattle in a lowland rice-based system are reported. In general, the carabao and their crossbreds are comparable in terms of resistance to work stress and docility. Cattle and carabao can generate the same draught power equivalent to 15 percent of the bodyweight, but were found to be physiologically more comfortable with draught output equivalent to 11 percent of the bodyweight.
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