Author Topic: Yak for sale Cheshire (Read 20112 times)

mebnandtrn · « **Reply #15 on:** November 15, 2014, 06:25:38 pm »

How much is the yak please?

BALLOCH · « **Reply #16 on:** November 15, 2014, 06:48:30 pm »

scary looking!

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #17 on:** November 15, 2014, 06:53:33 pm »

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!

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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.

Kaybrook · « **Reply #18 on:** November 15, 2014, 07:38:06 pm »

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.