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when the animals used to be allowed
into a portion of the hardwood bush,
they would pig out on wild leeks, he
says. "I guess that was a way of them
getting a natural wormer."
They also learned from native
people from Western Canada, that the
buffalo liked to eat the bark of
willows. At times they've used that
remedy on their own farm, cutting
river willows from their low land and
taking it to the buffalo.
Aaron is now trying before and
after treatment testing of feces
samples to get more scientific
evidence of just how effective his
remedies are.
ntei"est in the bison industry is
growing and Arlene, in her
position with the Bison
Association, fields many calls
looking for information. Some, she
says, come from non -farmers and
show enough naivete to make her
shudder. She chuckles about one call
from someone who had just bought at
hilly piece of land and wondered if
buffalo, being native to the flat
prairie, could manage the hills.
"You try to give people as much
solid information as you can," Aaron
says. "I won't say you discourage
some people from having them, but
you try to make them aware of the
consequences. They are wild
animals."
"Which is one of the attributes we
love about them," Arlene adds.
"They're independent. They take a
low protein feed and put it into a high
protein meat. They've never been
pampered. They look after
themselves. But to that you have to
take the other aspect of it, that they
don't want you to interfere."
Interest in buffalo is coming from
people with a wide range of
backgrounds. Some dairy farmers,
perhaps nervous about the future after
supply management, are inquiring
about buffalo.
Speaking from experience, Aaron
says beef farmers have to unlearn a
lot of their experience with beef to be
good buffalo ranchers because the
animals are very different. "My boys
are always saying 'Dad, these are
buffalo, you can't cowboy them in'."
Some of the most successful
buffalo ranchers aren't even farmers,
he says. Farmers have the advantage
of having the land but preparing
yourself for the fact that these are