page_title: Romanian buffalo
section_title: Productive and reproductive traits
hierarchical_section_title: Romanian buffalo / Productive and reproductive traits
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Buffles domestiques Bubalus bubalis en Roumanie, d'après [1], December 1, 2009, appartenant à Alex Corpodean
context_page_description: The Romanian buffalo, Romanian: 'Bivol românesc', is a water buffalo breed from Romania.
context_section_description: Main uses are milk, meat and draught power.  Milk yield varies according to season of calving, lactations number, level of feeding, and length of lactation. Lactation milk yield (kg) is between 958-1455 kg. The number of days lactation per year is 252-285; age at first calving is 38-42 months; average lactations number is 6-9; age at slaughter for young stock is 22-24 and 350-400 kg or at 3-4 months and 60-100 kg for males and the females are slaughtered at 500-600 kg, usually after the first lactation or after the productive life. 
  In 2003 the female that was included in herd book had 1831 kg milk, with 136 kg fat (7.48%) and 71 kg (3.93%) protein. Age at first calving was 38 months and calving interval of these female was 456 days. The average of calves/year is 0.85.
caption: Romanian buffalo, Bubalus bubalis
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