No doubt yaks are pleasing to look at and own. Their great handlebar horns, buffalo like shoulders, horse-like tail, and a lengthy hairy skirt combined with their particular docile behavior make for an amazing appearance you can also enjoy watching for hours.
Yak babies are agile, athletic, playful, and leap and run around like excited horses with the tails held high above their backs. Yaks are certainly not loud livestock. They communicate in quiet grunts, snorts and head shakes. Yaks are very intelligent, interested, independent, serene, mellow, and quiet animals that make them an honour to manage.
Thus of their unique heritage of growing in high mountainous regions with great temperature extreme conditions they are extremely hardy and suitable for places that are traditionally considered inhospitable to animals. these animals enjoy the cold, dry conditions and require no special shelter or diets.
Yak calves, cows and steers easily get halter trained, and do make nice pets or 4H task livestock. They are an outstanding choice for packing plus trekking purposes. An adult animal can pack huge weight through rough mountainous terrain more surefooted than horses or mules. Not needing shoes, they are trail friendly and need little more than browsing along the way. They also can be confined with horses and put together for a special pack string.
Yaks are normally very hardy and disease tolerant. Their great wooly coating consists of an outer safeguard hair plus a fine inner hair called down. The down provides insulation against the cold winter time. Each spring as the weather warms, the yak start naturally shedding their dainty undercoat. Yak farmers help this along by brushing out their yaks and getting the down. It is then washed and refined the same as the fiber from sheep and other fiber livestock.
An old yak produces approximately one pound of down per annum. Yak fiber is quiet soft and luxurious. It truly is near to Qiviut (musk ox down) and even comes close in softness and warmness to Cashmere. Yak fiber is not slippery and may be easily spun. The micron count of this livestock is around 15-18. It has a short staple 1/2? - 2? with an un-usual crimp. It is great for sewn and knitted garments, additionally; yak down is a nice fiber when felt.
Most uniquely is the taste and advantage of yak meat which is quite possibly the healthiest and good tasting meat on the meat market. Yak meat takes up 96% lean red meat and rates very low in the "bad" Palmitic acid plus saturated fats associated with heart disease and high cholesterol.
It is also very high in necessary protein and iron, and the "good" oleic acids and poly-unsaturated fats. It has a delightful and delicate beef flavor which is never gamey or greasy and is even less in fat than salmon. Testing has proven that 9 out of ten individuals will prefer yak meat than that of beef, bison or elk.
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