Articles | Volume 48, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-48-555-2005
https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-48-555-2005
10 Oct 2005
 | 10 Oct 2005

Growth and milk performance of yak in southern Qinghai area (short communication)

X.-L. Luo, J. Zu, Q. Li, Y. Wei, and X.-Q. Zhao

Abstract. The Study carried out in Xueshan Township, Guoluo prefecture, Qinghai Province, P. R. China from 1997 to 1999 on 1) Growth regulation of yak from born to adult and 1/4 wild yak from born to one and half year; 2) The effect of nursing or not on the growth and development of dam; 3) Meat performance of local yak; 4)Milk productivity of female yak. It can be served as the theory basis from which crossbreed improvement of yak and government decision could be drawn.