Guess what we found in the pasture today? What a shock!!!

[chickensioux]

Beautiful animals and precious baby!!!!!

 

[TeaKettleK]

Oh my!! SO cute!!!

And holy haulin', that sounds terrifying!!!! Glad all of ya (CUTE baby included!) are ok!!!

 

[Majestic Lane Poultry]

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I wish we could have seen that!

What an adorable baby!

 

[Wynette]

OH, holy cuteness overload! CONGRATS on your baby!

 

[YakLady]

Thanks, everyone!

I went out this morning to check on things, and Zelda was at the hay ring with her baby. The hay ring is close to a fence, so I was able to safely get close to them and watch through the fence. Zelda gave me a few head shakes and grunts, but nothing nearly as aggressive as yesterday. The baby was so cute!!!! It's a girl. She was leaping and bucking, playing in the hay. She had her little tail up, so I could get a good look. That little pink nose just cracks me up! LOL!

Pips n' Peeps and Backyard Chicken Rancher, I'm sorry...I'll try to explain better. Yaks are bovine, so we call them cows, bulls, steers and heifers. They are not traditional cattle, though. All of my yaks are purebred yaks. A few people do crossbreed them with traditional cattle, but it usually ahs to be done via AI, as yaks prefer other yaks. Baby girl's markings are what makes her a Royal yak. There are a few different colors and patterns that place them in different categories. The Golden is the most rare. Both parents have to have a recessive Golden gene in order to produce a Golden offspring. Even so, not every birth will be a Golden. It's always kind of a surprise to see what you get.

The most common is called the Gray-Nosed Black. That's what baby's mom is. All 4 of my Idaho cows are gray-noses. They're good for producing meat animals, usually. My first herd of 8 consisted of Imperials (solid black with black noses and hooves) and Trims (black with black noses and hooves, but with a splash of white somewhere). Then there are the Royals, which is what baby is. Pureblood yak, just a different color pattern than her mother. She's worth a lot more money than her mother, too, as a result of her color pattern.

 

[annanicole18]

Congrats!!!! What a fantastic deal! Will you be able to add her to your breeding program?

 

[YakLady]

Yes. Since Zelda was pregnant when she arrived, apparently, this baby is unrelated to my bull. My herd bull is a registered Imperial, so any offspring that this little baby may produce from him will be registered, too. Breeding a Royal to an Imperial most often results in either more Royals or some Trims. Either one would be great. I called another yak owner the day that baby girl was born. I asked how the heck I ended up with a Royal baby from a Gray-Nose cow. He explained to me that sometimes that just happens. He said that one of his gray-nose cows, who was bred to his gray-nose bull, gave birth to Royal twins last year. Talk about a shocker! There have only been a couple of cases of yaks having twins.

 

[1stepcloser]

Whoa! Um....SURPRISE!!!!

I think he/she is a cutie. The growling yak part is a little disturbing. I would have backed away too.

 

[eenie114]

Awwww..... that is soooooooooooo cute!! And a GIRL too!!! LUC-KY!!

 

[YakLady]

Ok, UPDATE!!!!!!

Apparently I don't know my parts too well. What I thought was a girlie part turned out to be a piece of hay with a shadow. LOL!

While taking another look today and taking pictures, we saw what was undoubtedly little white hairy round objects. We also saw urination pouring forth from the midriff. Folks, we have a Royal bull. More pics:

He was head-butting a tree, and I thought it was too cute!

These pics are of his big brother, another beautiful bull...