YAK TRACKS: Celebrating our YAK MAMAS on MOTHER'S DAY!

We;'ve got four proud yak mamas and four new calves at the farm, as of mother's day. Here they are - posing.

Left to right: Lady Slipper, Ilia, Black Magic Woman (BMW) and Kunga.



And here's my favorite yak - Kunga the Wooly - with her day-old calf. Fetching, aren't they?

YAK TRACKS: Yakking in our "Satellite" Pastures - Vive Spring!

A big morning this morning. We moved eight of the weanling and yearlings to two small grass pastures.

Four - Uno, Carl, Nox, and Roxanne - to new a temporary pen with fine grass on the southwest side of Dave's farm.







And another four - Tashi the Wonder Yak, Natasha, Jessie, and Isadore - to the Yellow Farm Inn.





Good to have yaks out on pasture.

YAK TRACKS: Cinqo De Mayo - Yakking About Summer Grass!

...Thanks to warm weather, and a nice mix of moisture and sun, the yaks are on their summer grass/pasture - and wickedly happy to be there. Look closely - see them grinning! And what a stunningly beautiful afternoon in Mad River Valley.

YAK TRACKS: Yakking with the FLIPpin' Young 'Uns...

Here's what happened when I passed my 8-year-old son Theron the FLIP camera for 10 minutes the other day.



I ought to give him the camera more often.



Yak on, and stay cool, four-leggeds, in this 85 degree humidity!

YAK TRACKS: Good to be Back on Grass

I spent two hours this afternoon in one of my favorite places.

The little fenced-in pasture on the Loop Road by Mike and Sandy's Yellow Farm Inn.

Got the hoses hooked up, the yak trough filled with water, the temporary fencing and wires installed, and the pasture cleaned up.

In time for the four-leggeds arrival on spring pasture next week.

Good to be back on grass.

Yak to the future.

YAK TRACKS: The Russians are Coming!

We had a whole posse of Muscovites drop into the farm last week - guests of Champlain College in Burlington.

Thanks to my colleague Gary Scudder for the photos.

And could Lady Slipper's new calf be any more cute?

And why is it that all the yak farm kids only turn out to help when we have guests at the farm?

YAK: "The Best Alpine Bovine You'll Ever Eat!"

We couldn't make up a better headline.

Thanks to Atlantic for publishing this story on our farm.



And welcome to our first calf of the spring!