Yaks Popular With Owners for Ease, Versatility

[ellisonz]

By Jackie Jadrnak / Journal North Reporter on Sun, Jan 15, 2012
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ARROYO SECO — Back in 2005, Joy Robertshaw accompanied a friend to a border collie competition in Cortez, Colo., wandered over to a livestock pen and spotted her first yak.

It was love at first sight.

Now, she has three of the creatures munching alfalfa and grass hay on an acre or two next to her Taos County home, with a herd of another 75 to 80 pastured in southern Colorado while she searches out land in northern New Mexico where she can keep them herself.

“I do really love what I do,” said the native New Zealander. “I should have started this years and years ago.”

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Doesn't this just make you want a yak?

[Mopar151]

1. I know a guy who bought a house where Yaks were previously kept

Said old yak dung hardens up like concrete - had to chisel it off the gararge floor.

[dimbear]

2. I hear they don't talk back. n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. you're a clown

Charlie Brown

[JCMach1]

3. Yak milk and cheese is really, really good!

[Autumn]

4. Yak meat is wonderful

it has an excellent flavor. Very mild and healthier than beef. High in omega oil. At one time I used it on a regular basis but have no found any where I live now.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. Yaks!! Fuck Yeah!!

[Glorfindel]

7. An excellent poem from 1896, stating much the same...

THE YAK

By Hilaire Belloc

As a friend to the children commend me the Yak.
You will find it exactly the thing:
It will carry and fetch, you can ride on its back,
Or lead it about with a string.

The Tartar who dwells on the plains of Thibet
(A desolate region of snow)
Has for centuries made it a nursery pet.
And surely the Tartar should know!

Then tell your papa where the Yak can be got,
And if he is awfully rich
He will buy you the creature - or else he will not.
(I cannot be positive which.)

1896

[ellisonz]

8. That's a great poem...

...thanks for posting.

[nolabear]

9. And WHO can forget...

[hifiguy]

11. Our country reeks of trees

Our yaks are really large.....

[Robb]

10. Boy this takes me back.

[hifiguy]

12. Yak, yak, yak

Boy that brings back some memories of bygone lounge days....

[LiberalEsto]

13. Is a Yak one of those new Asian automobiles?

Does it get good mileage?

[Enrique]

14. please don't keep us in suspense

ease of use? versatility? We all want to know what can be done with a yak, but we don't want to subscribe to the Albuquerue online to find out.

[ellisonz]

15. I think was free for awhile and then went subscription.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak#Domesticated_yaks