We took four days to travel west to Arkhangai and a forage and dairy research station associated with the university. They run a breeding program with yaks and cattle/yak hybrids, and publish results every three years in a booklet for herders. Yak herders who maintain station yaks in addition to their own animals sell cheese through the station. The station also provides fodder to its herders during difficult winter months. The region specializes in a particular cheese product that the station formulated forty years back. It's like a dry apricot cheese-cake. We brought back over a kilo. I took some pictures, so here they are.
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| yak herder in Arkhangai |
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| deworming sheep with a local vet |
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| a client (goat herder) we were spraying sheep for |
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| wet sheep |
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| spraying sheep (for parasites) |
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| love that forelock |
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| yak and yak/cow hybrids with weird and wonderful horns |
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| i think you may have mites |
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| kind of cool |
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| rainy weather |
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| it's said the ponies with blue eyes make the best race horses |
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| the effects of a bad storm. wet laundry and one dead sheep. (we tried to warm him up in the ger the night before, but he was a gonner. hypothermia looks like no fun at all.) |
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| a Mongolian lasso |
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| that bad storm i mentioned. we had the good fortune of getting stuck beside a rail car housing seven strong Mongolian boys, and they helped us out. |
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