They are easier to raise than cattle and are very intelligent, with many different personalities. If you like animals, you'll love yaks. Yaks require no special fencing. Existing cattle facilities are easily used. Yaks are disease resistant and cold hardy.
Yaks are quiet.
Female yaks are bred at 18-24 months. Females calve with ease. Cows can weigh up to 900 punds, bulls to 1200 pounds. Yaks generally live 20-25 years. B.C. Docile and powerful, the yak is the most useful of domestic mammals at high elevations and serves as a mount, a beast of burden, and is used for milk and meat as well as wool production.