About

DELYAKS is a family oriented business, founded in 1996 by the Hasse family.

Looking for an “idiot proof animal” designed to be disease resistant, intelligent, environment friendly, cost efficient, and hardy, the Hasse family found their animal in Yaks – Bos Grunniens – The Grunting Bovine at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado.

Today DELYAKS is home to over 125 Yaks ranging from Blacks to Trims to Royals and Goldens. DELYAKS exist today to bring you the best quality Yaks and Yak products.

Yaks are a truly striking exotic animal. With handlebar horns, buffalo humped shoulders, horse-like tail, and a long hairy skirt reaching almost to the ground; they are very beautiful. Yak babies are agile, athletic, playful, and leap and run like excited horses with their tails held high over their backs. Yaks are extremely intelligent, curious, independent, serene, mellow, and quiet animals that make them a pleasure to raise. If raised as a pasture pet, they will respond to you as a pet, always seeking attention and responding in turn with appreciation and with real personality.

Adult Yak cows range in weight from 600 to 700 pounds and stand 4.5 feet at the shoulders, while Yak bulls range from 1200 to 1400 pounds and stand 5.5 feet at the shoulders. Full size is achieved in six to eight years. Yak heifers conceive at eighteen to twenty-four months of age and calve at two and one-half years. Gestation is 8.5 months. Calving of the twenty-five to thirty-five pound babies appears effortless, problem free, and finished before you can find your camera. Newborn babies are up and running in minutes, grow rapidly, and are exceptionally disease-resistant and cold hardy due to their wool coat. Yak bulls are considered breeders at 3 to 4 years of age. Yaks breed and calve far longer than cattle since Yaks live 20-25 years.

Yak meat is a juicy, flavorful, and healthy meat. The flavor can be compared to sweet beef flavor with no gaminess and no greasy after taste. While being 95% fat-free, its delicate, delicious flavor comes from its unique distribution of fatty acid percentages. Yaks are extremely low in palmitic acid that is bad for our health (30% less than beef as a percentage of fats and 120% less than beef as a percentage of meat.) Yak meat is also much lower in calories, saturated fats, cholesterol, and triglycerides. Simultaneously, Yak meat is much higher in stearic and oleic acids that are good for us (35% higher than beef as a percentage of fats.) Yak meat is also higher in protein and solids (less water) than beef.

More Facts about Yaks can be found at www.yakmeat.us and www.yakbreeder.com