Meet the Bulls
The bulls make up 50% of the herd’s DNA, so we really treat them like royalty! We feel that we have one of the finest teams of yak bulls in North America. Below you’ll see our varsity team of bulls.
HSY Yoda
09B78
If you examine the pedigree of almost any award winning North American yak, you will find GHF Queen Allante listed. Queen Allante was a legendary producer of outstanding bulls. Queen Allante’s last calf was our bull Yoda. Yoda has certainly proven himself worthy of his pedigree. You’ll likely find some of his children in our YAKS FOR SALE.
HSY Barlow
09B88
In the fall of 2013 we replaced our bull Rex when we bough Barlow from Richard Grossmann of Sheron Prairie Ranch. We were looking for a larger bull than Rex with a pedigree having less in common with Yoda. From the various candidates we selected Barlow, a bull we had admired for two years.
Barlow’s first contributions began arriving in August 2014, and right away he gave us a winner! Barlow’s August 2014 calf, HSY Foster, won two ribbons at the 2015 National Western Stock Show. Foster is now a resident of Minnesota. At the 2016 National Western Stock Show Barlow gave us the High Point Champion, and a double blue-ribbon winning heifer calf.
HSY Olar
11B99
Our 2011 yak crop produced two outstanding bulls. One of them, HSY Batu, is living in Steamboat Springs Colorado where he is doing what bulls do. We kept Olar, and he has developed into a fine bull. Olar is Yoda’s half-brother. Normally Yoda and Olar share breeding responsibilities in our largest breeding group. Olar’s very first calf became a blue ribbon yearling bull at the 2016 National Western Stock Show.
HSY Ambrose
13B86
Ambrose has had his own breeding group since 2016. He’s produced a number of outstanding calves. Every calf of Ambrose has been a royal or an imperial trim. In fact we’ve had a number of imperial trims born to gray nosed dams. Ambrose’s pink nose hides the genes for his black nose. Ambrose is both a royal and an imperial.