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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: Kaybrook on November 13, 2014, 02:20:28 pm
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Yak heifer born July 2013 offered for sale. She is by our bull hence sale. Cross breeding with cattle breeds produces decent offspring with lean, low cholesterol meat. Possibly another adult for sale if a companion is required. IBR free herd, vaccinated BVD and Lepto. TB free herd.
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I don't think I have ever seen a yak, do you have photos?
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ooh I've only seen Yaks in toddler's A-Z books under Y!!! would love to see a photo!
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Fascinated .... didn't know anyone bred Yak's in UK. Meat or milk? And quite surprised they will breed with cattle.
Tell me more about Yak keeping ..... what do they need in the way of feed housing and care?
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Not that I have the space to keep yaks, but I'd be fascinated to find out more about yak keeping too!
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Do you spin their fibre? :spin:
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Come along, Kaybrook, bring on the yaks!! ;D
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I think we're the only breeding herd in the UK.... so far! Will add pictures later, I can't do it from my phone
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Were you in the Daily Mail with your Yaks? A friend gave me the article. Googling Yaks I think South Devon may be too warm for them unless they could be shorn and kept cooler that way?
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Yes we were, and also the farmers weekly. They pant like dogs to keep cool, and shed their wool to some extent in summer too. Our originals were from Southern Germany which must get pretty warm in summer too. They live outside all year round and eat silage/haylage and cattle nuts pretty much like beef cattle really but hardier. We have never spun the wool but if anyone is interested I'd love a yak hat!
Is there an easy way to post photos or do they have to come via photo bucket or similar?
Thank you
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Can't even take a photo let alone send one :( so can't help there! Weren't yurts once made from woven yak hair?
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Yes we were, and also the farmers weekly. They pant like dogs to keep cool, and shed their wool to some extent in summer too. Our originals were from Southern Germany which must get pretty warm in summer too. They live outside all year round and eat silage/haylage and cattle nuts pretty much like beef cattle really but hardier. We have never spun the wool but if anyone is interested I'd love a yak hat!
Is there an easy way to post photos or do they have to come via photo bucket or similar?
Thank you
If you click 'reply' rather than 'quick reply', under the box where you type, there is an option to add an attachment. You can add a photo that way, but there is a limit of 512KB per attachment up to a maximum of 1024KB/4 attachments. If you want more or better resolution pics, then you need to use something like photobucket. Bring on the yaks!
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I'm sure I can find homes for the fibre :spin: :)
It's incredibly fine short fibre, a challenge to spin. Drop me a PM if you would like me to sell it for you. There will be plenty of folks who'd like the opportunity to spin some UK yak!
Edited to say I hadn't spotted Fleecewife's prior query - so if FW wants it/some, I'm in the queue behind her!
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Here's the daily mail article with piccys, fine looking beasts http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575626/Half-ton-mum-Himalayan-YAK-herd-flourish-Cheshire-farm-owners-breed-imported-beasts-Holstein-cows-make-hybrid-YOWS.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575626/Half-ton-mum-Himalayan-YAK-herd-flourish-Cheshire-farm-owners-breed-imported-beasts-Holstein-cows-make-hybrid-YOWS.html)
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Wow, fabulous looking animals :thumbsup:
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How much is the yak please?
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scary looking!
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One of our Guild members had some yak yarn she'd spun on display today, so I asked her if she thought people would be interested in fibre direct from a UK yak. (At this time, I still hadn't noticed Fleecewife's prior enquiry, so hadn't realised that I and my other friends - besides FW - would be second in line! :D)
Anyway, said Guild member said she understood that the yak could only survive at above 12,000 feet, and so she was sure these must be hybrids. As she understood it, the yak's system is so adapted to life at high altitude / extreme (low) temperatures that they simply can't function in a temperate climate at a low (to them) level.
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Well last time I checked Cheshire was below 12,000 feet, and these yaks are alive alive-o! We do also have some hybrids but the heifer in question is pure yak. She was debudded as a calf so doesn't have the scary horns.
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Have PM'd you with info on someone whom I know of who also keeps yaks and may welcome new blood in his herd.
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Thank you! Have replied :)
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How much are you wanting for her then?
Would make an interesting cross with my highland bull. :love:
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Contact details and location please
Am interested
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Contact details and location please
Am interested
It's a 9 year old ad
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Contact details and location please
Am interested
It's a 9 year old ad
But it was quite exciting at the time 8)