Growth of water buffalo, Bubalus arnee

Data were collected from 606 Egyptian water buffalo (340 females and 266 males) ranging in age from birth to almost 16 years. Age (t), live body weight (WT), heart girth (HG), abdomen girth (AG), wither height (WH), abdomen height (AH), body length (L), width from pin to pin (PP), width from hip to hip (HH), and distance from hip to pin (HP), chest depth (CD), abdomen depth (AD), and abdomen width (AW) were simultaneously taken once on each animal. Growth curves were calculated within sex for those measurements, using a non-linear model. Simple correlations were calculated between all traits (.)