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Caring for livestock is very profitable inFarming Simulator 25, making it a great business leaving crops aside. Each animal in the game produces unique products which can be sold for profit, and it’s quite satisfying to grow a small empire of livestock to help you reach your financial goals.
In this guide, we will learn about water buffalo and how you may make a good amount of money out of them. Whether you’re in it for the milk or a full-blown mozzarella production unit, these gentle giants make for fantastic livestock to add to your farm.
What Is Necessary For Keeping Water Buffalos?
You need to keep a lot in mind when you’re starting off livestock farming with water buffalos. However, don’t worry, we’ll be guiding you with key pointers to make the process easier – they are as follows:
These pointers should be considered when building a revenue system with water buffalos.
Building A Place To Keep Water Buffalos
At first glance, it might seem that you need to build an animal pen on water. However, that’s not the case.Water buffalos share the same pastures as cows, so you’ll need to have an animal pen under the Cow category.
If you jump into a new game without any access to a cow pasture, you’ll need to build one. To do so, you’ll need to access the build mode which can be accessed through the shortcut –Shift+P.
In build mode, you’ll find a cow icon on the left. Click on it to open theAnimal Pasture menu. From the get-go, you’ll be presented with the cow pasture tab with the following options:
$15,000
7
$85,000
35
$170,000
99
$254,000
50
$518,500
96
$722,500
93
Cow Barns are automatically attached to water source, reducing the labor.
What Do Water Buffalos Eat?
Water buffalos are great foodies as they can eat many things. However, they are a bit picky as thefood’s effectiveness varies in this case. The following fodder can be given to your water buffalos:
Theeffectiveness directly corresponds to the health of your water buffalos, so it is best to give themmixed ration. In other words, loading your pastures with a combination of fodders would give you the best results.
For instance, feeding your water buffalos with amix of hay and grass would give you 100 percent effectiveness. Additionally, you may alsokeep your Meadow Grass, andadd in SiIage or Hay to increase effectivenesstoo.
All these things can be grown in the game; however,buying them from shops is also an option.
Buying from shops is very expensive, so keep this option as the last resort, if you don’t want unnecessary expenses.
Providing Water For Your Pastures
If you’re using a Cow Pasture, you’ll need to provide water manually. To do so, you’ll first need to purchase avehicular barrel. You can purchase one why visiting aVehicle Shop and find one under the Animal Category.
Attach the barrel to a tractor and take it to awater source, for example,a river. Place thebarrel near the water source as it barely touches it. You’ll getan option to refill it.Press R or press the Left Stickto fill the water barrel.
Once the tanker is loaded, take it to yourCow Pastureand place the barrel onthe water drop icon. You’ll get an option todump the water and refill your pasture.
Getting Waste Products From Water Buffalos
Water buffalos are very useful as they alsoproduce usable waste productslikemanure and slurry. Both of which can be used tofertilize your fieldsandincrease your crop yields.
Providing water buffalos withstrawwill give youmanure,while giving themanything elsewill produce aslurry. These can be dispersed over fields by usingManure Spreaders and Slurry Tankers. These can be purchased fromVehicle Shops and be found under the Yield Improvements category.
Additionally, you can alsosell slurry to earn money. To transport it, you’ll need to buy aSlurry Transport, which again, can be found in theYield Improvements category.
To get slurry out, you’ll need toplace a tanker or transport tankerunder thecow dung iconto get arefill option.
As for manure, you’ll need tobuild an extensionto store it.Open the build menu, and on the left-hand side, you’llfind a barn icon and click on it. On the third tab, you’ll get theSilo Extensions, and scroll down to findManure Heap Extensions.Place this near your barn to store your manure produce.
Do not buyManure Heap, as it provides manual storage solutions. Instead, chooseManure Heap Extention,as it automatically stores mature from barns.
you may carry manure by placing aManure Spreaderor aTraileron thedrop-off icon next to the Manure Heap Extension.
Producing Buffalo Milk And Selling It
Water buffalos start producing milk after they hit puberty and produce offspring. The breeding age for these starts at18 months onwards. If you’re not in a rush,try buying young buffalos for cheapandgrow them slowly to get the most out of them.
To sell Buffalo Milk, you’ll first needa tanker to carry it to sellers. You canbuy a tankerfromVehicle Shop,which can be found under theBarrels category. Drive thetanker to your barnand place it onthe milk canister logonext to it. You’ll get an option to fill the tanker and carry your goods.
Earning from Buffalo Milk iscalculated at the rate of per 1,000 liters. Usually, buffalo milk sells for good prices throughout the year and reaches$11,340 per 1,000 litersduring peak seasons. Additionally, you’re able to also transport it toProduction Chainsto makeby-products like Buffalo Mozzarella, Bottled Buffalo Milk, and other products.
Strategies For Doing Business With Water Buffalos
The primary product you get from water buffalos is milk.Buffalo Milk sells best in January and September. While it sells forthe lowest from May to August, and October to December.Selling for $10,395would beoptimalas it is theaverage price.
Processing buffalo milkis a great way toimprove selling prices. If you’re patient enough, make by-products out of it. Moreover, selling buffalo products is moreprofitable than cow products.
Water buffalos are great for their waste produce as they can be usedas fertilizers, which canalso be sold for extra profit.
Buffalos produce offspringevery four to five months, however, this can be off at times. This aside,mature buffalos above 24 months of agesell for a lotand make immense profits if you start your dairy business withbaby buffalos. Aside from being just cute, theydobring a lot of cash.
