Carabao are a kind of water buffalo common the the Philippines. At the University of the Philippines at Los Banos, there is an agriculture school and a veterinary medicine school. We also stumbled across a carabao breeding program, which is studying ways to cross-breed different kinds of water buffalo in order to increase milk production. The milk produced by this kind of cattle is the richest in fat, at 7% to 9%, contrasting to the dairy cattle we know who produce milk with no more than 4% milkfat. They very kindly gave us a brief tour and explanation of the program, and sent us off to the Carabao Program Dairy Store, where they sell a very popular and flavorful kind of "bufalo mazzarella" as well as yogurt, milk, sweets made of milk, and meats such as bratwurst and hungarian sausage made of buffalo meat.
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| Precautions against spreading infectious disease |
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| The young are always appealing! |
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| Mom, not so much. |
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| Milking the herd |
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