On Monday night we arrived at the Philippine Caribao Center where we were greeted by Assistant Governor Tess Cruz. The PCC is a center for the study of the water buffalo in Philippines, has a hotel with conference centre and was the site for our Tuesday workshop. It was a great place to have a workshop as the conference centre ws close to the hotel where we are staying (the same bulding) and was air conditioned. Apparently the centre is world renowned for its research. It is in the middle of an agriculturally concerned research area in the Science City of Munoz.
When our workshop was completed we were taken on a tour of the Caribao center. We saw the milking barn, the feeding station, the corrals and the pens for the new calves. It looked very familiar, reinforcing the iddea that Nueva Ecija was similar to my home province of Saskatchewan. Domesticated caribao and prairie cattle are different species, but their care and handling are similar. A milk machine is still a milk machine and a barn still smells like a barn.
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