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A Yakutian bull. Yakutian cattle are relatively small in size. The cows stand between 110 and 112 cm (43 and 44 in) high at the withers and reach a live weight of 350 to 400 kg (770 to 880 lb); bulls reach a height of 115 to 127 cm (45 to 50 in) and weigh 500 to 600 kg (1,100 to 1,300 lb).
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The Yakuts engage in animal husbandry, traditionally having focused on rearing horses, mainly the Yakutian horse, reindeer and the Sakha Ynagha ('Yakutian cow'), a hardy kind of cattle known as Yakutian cattle which is well adapted to the harsh local weather.
Yakut or Yakutian may refer to: Yakuts, the Turkic peoples indigenous to the Sakha Republic; Yakut language, a Turkic language; Yakut scripts, Scripts used to write the Yakut language; Yakut (name) Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; Yakutian Laika, a dog breed from the Sakha Republic; Yakutian cattle, a breed from the Sakha Republic
In Siberia, annual temperatures fluctuate between +38 and −70 °C (100 and −94 °F) and winter may last for 8 months. [7] Yakutian horses are kept unstabled year-round, and in the roughly 800 years that they have been present in Siberia, they have evolved a range of remarkable morphologic, metabolic and physiologic adaptations to this harsh environment.
[2] [3] On 27 April 1922, the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formed as part of the RSFSR, which included the Yakutsk Oblast but excluded the region of Lower Tunguska (which became part of the Kirensky uezd of the Irkutsk Governorate), the Khatanga-Anabar uezd of the Yeniseysk Governorate, the Olekminsk-Suntar volost of the ...
As a result, many supposedly pure yak or pure cattle probably carry each other's genetic material. In Mongolia, the result of a khainag crossed with either a domestic bull or yak bull is called ortoom (ортоом, three-quarter-bred) and an ortoom crossed with a domestic bull or yak bull results in a usan güzee (усан гүзээ, one ...
The yakalo is a cross of the yak (Bos grunniens) and the American bison (Bison bison, known as a buffalo in North America).It was produced by hybridisation experiments in the 1920s, when crosses were made between yak bulls and both pure bison cows and bison–cattle hybrid cows. [1]