BrownSheep- It's been a while

autumnprairie said:
What is the difference between the two yaks? If I ever move to a colder climate state I am getting some yaks they are so awesome.
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Just coloring. Although you can get a specific strain of yaks that are super wooly.
 
So what do you all do with the yaks? Do you harvest their wool/fiber or anything like that? Or are they just SUPER HUGE pets? Those things are SO cool...but I don't think my DH would "go" for us getting any. :(
 
CocoNUT said:
So what do you all do with the yaks? Do you harvest their wool/fiber or anything like that? Or are they just SUPER HUGE pets? Those things are SO cool...but I don't think my DH would "go" for us getting any. :(
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People around here raise them for meat. We just have the one and her mutt calf :gig . We'll breed them keep the heifers and eat the bull calves. I would love to bottle raise one. I saw a calf that was born back in September and he was still barely taller than my knees and I'm not tall in the least.
 
wow...how tasty are they? do people milk them or is that just a himalayn type thing?
i've never had yak before...that'd be neat to try.
 
I've never actually eaten one :hide . I've heard it's just like lean beef and very mild tasting.

Most people just raise them for meat but some guy in Colorado has one or two he milks.
 
I might like a Buffalo some day. I didn't even know they had Yaks in the U.S.
 
No lambs, no cougar, and back to school
 
Hello dorm room I kinda missed ya.

Spent yesterday with my mom visiting grandma, shopping, and went to a $2 movie ( guilt trip-it's pretty cute). Spent the morning with the family taking grandma to look at a assisted living house. It's a different branch of the same one she's in now. Several, of the ladies who she really enjoyed transferred to work there and it's closer to one of my aunts so she'll move at the end of the month. Went to brunch. Took grandma home. Brunch didnt cut it so we went and had a sandwich at another aunts. Mom dropped me off and headed home.

Classes start up tomorrow. Im taking English 102, Biology 191 (+ a 3 hr lab :sick ), a required all sophomore class, Calculus :sick, and philosophy. I'm going to drop my philosophy class since its online and I'll be pretty busy with the other classes. To clarify I am actually a freshman but have a sophomore standing due to the number of credits I have and I thought Ild get the required class out of my way.

Last semester ended pretty well 3 A's and one C. The C was in my Precalc and Algebra combo class...I DO NOT suggest combo classes :gig . Over half the class fail so Im happy to have squeaked out.

Dad says the sheep are good and of course mentions the cougar is probably waiting for lambs so it can have dinner to go :smack .
 
It's a wonderful day when you have one class and are done by ten .
 
Well lambing season started with Big Bertha and her two ewe lambs. We may or may not end up selling them two kids for 4-H. They aren't typical show lambs but the fair they go to only show about 20 lambs.

My classes are going well. Wanna know my parent bet with me?...alright maybe its a bribe....

If I get an A in my Calculus class I get.....TWO PIGS!...I have a good feeling about this. My professor is really good and so far I have a 98. :woot These wont be pets and will become dinner come fall. Yummmm
 
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