Buffalo livestock systems (part 2)

2. Dung
Buffalo dung can be used as manure, compost, or compost liquid. Fertilizer easily collected when the buffalo are placed in a cage.
3. Buffalo Integration with Other Systems
Tambatkan buffalo in a field that you want, this is the simplest way.Buffalo can be moved around to provide continuous grass and provide an opportunity for grass to grow back. Should buffalo not far from the pool water.
a. Buffalo with Agriculture Lorong
This system can be used just like system in cattle. However, remember that buffalo prefer wet places.
b. Buffalo with Rice
After harvesting, if there is ample water, the empty rice fields can be planted legume ground cover and kacangkacangan. Seeds can be spread on fields without burning it first. Flood the field then once with water to make the soil moist and encourage germination. Plants that grow can be watered again a few weeks later if there is enough water. After the plant was about 1-2 months, let the buffalo into the field to devour plants.
Many benefits of this system, among others:
- Providing food for the buffalo.- Plant legumes will improve soil fields and provide nitrogen.- Buffalo will memupuki paddy fields with their manure, which is useful for the next rice planting.
4. Skin
Leather is often used buffalo leather, cow, goat, and pig. Each type of animal skin has a distinct advantage because of differences in thickness, elasticity, weight, and durability. Leather can be used as anything, such as bags, belts, clothes, shoes, saddle horse, sheath knives, and crafts.
How to tanning
Leather tanning will make your skin last longer and are easier to be processed. There are many ways to skin tanning, one of which is a simple way as follows:
1. Soak in water. Skin soak it in water for 2 days.2. Solution of limestone. Helps to soften and cleanse the skin, and remove the hair / hair. Add 1 kg of powdered limestone for every 30 liters of water, stir. Soak into the skin in this solution for 3-4 days, store in a safe place. This skin is ready to be taken when their feathers plucked easily. You can use less limestone powder in a solution of it for a longer period of immersion.3. Wash. Having plucked feathers, wash the skin carefully to clean gampingnya solution.4. Tannin solution. Tannin is a natural chemical derived from various plants. Use the tree bark from Kasuri, cashew trees, eucalyptus trees, or acacia trees to gettannin material. This tannin materials preserve and protect the skin to make it more durable. Make two different solutions. The first solution, using a mixture of 1 kg of bark for each 5 liters of water, soak the skin for 2-3 days. Then, create a solution again with a mixture of 1 kg of bark for every 10 liters of water, soak again for 12 days until their skin color changed.
To find out when the skin is ready, make a cut 3 cm from the edge of the skin. If it the same color with the color of the skin surface, it means the skin is ready. You can use bark less and let the skin submerged longer, or use more bark to shorten the soaking time. Add tea leaves in the solution was to get more tannins.5. Drying. Wash the skin carefully with water and hang to dry to dry. Stretch the skin with a rope to keep the softness and quality. Do not let the skin is completely dry. When skin is almost dry, place on a flat surface and usapi with oil, starting from the middle pointing outwards. Hang up and dry in the sun again to dry.