Hyderabad: 1.8 ton Gholu-2 to steal the show this Sadar

Unveiling the champion bull on Monday, the organizer of the Sadar festival, E Haribabu Yadav said, "Like every year, for the special attraction, this time we have brought Gholu, which has won several championships in Haryana and many parts of India.

Hyderabad: The champion Buffalo Bull ‘Gholu -2’, a Murrah breed weighing 1.8 tons and standing 7 feet tall, specially brought from Haryana, will be the star attraction for this year’s Sadar festival, the bull carnival held annually on the second day after Diwali festival by the Yadav community in Hyderabad

Unveiling the champion bull on Monday, the organizer of the Sadar festival, E Haribabu Yadav said, “Like every year, for the special attraction, this time we have brought Gholu, which has won several championships in Haryana and many parts of India. In the past few years, we brought champion bulls including Yuvraj, Dara and Shehenshah”.

Golu-2, which has a special pool to bath daily for at least two hours, after taking a massage with mustard oil, has a very specific workout regimen of 5K walk on a daily basis. The Murrah Bull has already won multiple awards across the Country.

“We feed the bull various types of grains, dry fruits, liters of milk and bananas per day. We also take it to five-kilometre morning walks daily. Apart from this, the bull is also thoroughly given oil massage two times a day,” says Bhupesh Yadav, the caretaker of the bull.

Naveen Singh, a farmer from Panipat in Haryana is the owner of this huge and popular buffalo. While Gholu-2’s grandfather’s name is Golu-1, his father’s name is PC-483. Born and raised in Panipat, the buffalo bull eats around 30 kgs of green and dry fodder every day. Besides this, he eats around 7.5 kg mixture made of wheat and grams.

Haribabu Yadav said every year, Gholu-2, produces huge amount of semen needed to inseminate over 10,000 buffaloes. In contrast, a normal male buffalo can hardly inseminate 1,000 buffaloes in a year.

“His owner earns in lakhs from selling the semen. Every month this buffalo earns about Rs. Rs 10 lakh to Rs 15 lakh, in which about Rs 3 lakh are spent in its diet and maintenance,” Haribabu said, adding that it took about a week to bring Gholu -2 to Hyderabad with stopping enroute from Haryana.