What's up everybody? welcome to the Star Yak Ranch and also welcome back to my channel !hi
how are ya? now in today's video we are here in casper, wyoming at the star yak
ranch and there has been a just endless amount of questions about the ranch!
so many people want to meet the yaks up close and personal, we want to talk about breeding, pets,
meat, food and the whole chara and yes girl we've been making headlines so let's come take a tour
of the star yak ranch !finally after a year of so many secrets let's take a little ride
"hi, Illusion!" (yak's name)
it's so nice to have the yaks just surround my home now when i first got into yaks now you guys
i've been filming at the star yak ranch for so long and i've used zero footage chris is probably
like hello so i've also done a lot of vlogging so we're gonna throw up some clips throughout this
video when i'm when i'm running my mouth but i started you guys with just this house and 70 acres
and then people around us were selling a lot of land now the star yak ranch is now at over 600
acres and the yaks just get to be grass-fed and chill and live in their environment i'm so happy
to call wyoming my home it'll be two years in december can't believe it and we've been yakking
for over a year hi girl and i know that i've kept this ranch kind of not under wraps but i've
just been keeping it to myself it's where i found peace after being canceled for the tenth time and
i just wanted to be surrounded by animals so you guys know i have eight pomeranians um i have
only a few people that help me on this ranch but it's really mainly me and my best friend michael
i do have a few ranch hands but i just it's really me and my best friend doing all all the work
hi blanken come here girl now this is my birthday twin my little scorpio look at her today we're
going to go drive around the ranch we're going to meet some of the yaks and we're gonna
answer all your questions because there are so many um so let's skip the rolls royce get in
our polaris general and go see the ranch okay so this is how i start my mornings
i come out here really early when everyone's just chilling and i just spend time with them all a lot
of people like jeffrey how are your yaks so tame you really have to spend a lot of time with them
a lot of love and affection this is swiss chocolate he's a golden yak he's a golden trim
and he is such a sweet boy we've been handling him now for about over a year
and we're gonna try to do some grooming today so yesterday he let me brush him out
and when the summer hits this coat starts shedding on swiss boy so this is all fiber
and yes it is usable i mean the fiber just melts right off now normally i'd have a bag i would save
it all and you can send it to the fiber mill and that's a whole nother conversation but
um right now it's just about you know i have over 120 yaks and they all need to get groomed big old
swiss man so this is his winter coat now a lot of people like jeffrey do they ever go indoors yaks
thrive when it's negative 20 degrees remember they're from the himalayas and you know the
tibetan plains of 18 000 feet elevation you know what i mean so they thrive in wyoming
look at his fiber color so cool so as summer comes their thick coat that protects them in the winter
it all just starts shedding my big boy now i love doing this because this is all about just bonding
with the animal letting them know that it's all positive energy they're just getting loved on
and they're desensitized to humans so oh swissy tell them we have these in all the
pastures it's a whole mineral supplement yaks really need copper in their diet
um and these are things that they're not going to get from hay or grazing the mountain huh
swiss this is like an asmr moment so he'll just stand here for like 20-30 minutes and just lick
all my exes and then this is really gonna help him oh yeah look at all that now the fiber on the neck
is the most valuable it's softer than cashmere i feel that wow isn't that cool that's crazy
all right swissy we'll see you in a little bit big head come on let's go this way
now this big baby is shiva he comes from colorado he's a big boy he's a steer meaning he's not
fertile his balls have been and he really keeps all that bulls in line and really kind of he's
like switzerland in the pasture now yesterday i actually groomed him and i got all of this off so
now it's just about some maintenance and you see how now the different colors will have different
type of fiber so the white it kind of melts off different less guard hair than the goldens
it's also very grounding just to like hang out with animals and not people all day um so
i really got all of that the parts that i need to get now are like branch that was in his arm
and then all this right here wants to shed look at that that cool now normally i would
save this because the white fiber is valuable you can dye any color you can make it into yarn or so
many different things i'm very ignorant about the fiber world of yakking so i'm learning and
i can't wait to absorb more knowledge but for now we just want to get these winter coats off
so i'm not going to save it and actually the birds love to collect this fiber all over the ground
and they'll use it for their nests so multi-purpose uh always
and then sometimes when you're giving them a massage they just casually fall asleep
yeah big old shiva aren't his horns massive insane they're so big he's a deadly man
this is like one big massage for him so he's just having the time of his life he's like ah
so relaxing all right you guys is this where we said go into my meat business oh my god people
are so crazy i think city folk don't understand farming chris there's a very there was a very big
misconception that when i announced that i was gonna start selling meat people thought it was
all of my pets that i've been spending the last year and a half with sorry they're all right here
now there is definitely a whole culture
in the entire america of harvesting food and i think most people know that but then
i was shocked i read some comments like i thought meat came from the grocery store
you guys i literally was like that's not real right and then people in wyoming were
like oh yeah people think meat comes from the grocery store and i'm like
oh my god so i had no idea people were uneducated about farming where meat came from
even the culture of hunting and providing food for your family it's a whole entire uh world
and living in wyoming i've definitely learned the wyoming way but yes it may seem a little
interesting to some people or you were a little perturbed that i am uh raising yaks for breeding
in pets and then yes we're also um raising yaks for food and yak meat is so amazing it's actually
the leanest healthiest red meat in america and no one's talking about it for some reason everyone
picked um beef and bison and yaks got just pushed to the the wayside in america where you know in
in tibetan culture yaksa i mean the acts have been around for five thousand years they're some of the
best most hardiest creatures that we have in our world they've been here since the dinosaur ages so
there was never a plan to raise yaks for meat in the beginning i know some people can't fathom that
and they want to say i'm a liar i'm this little girl i've been living out in paradise out here
and when i learned more about the animal i was like oh well i want to try doing stuff like that
so yes a long time ago i did trademark the star yak ranch for all sorts of things fiber breeding
butchering everything so yes i do sell a vegan cosmetics brand and i'm like you guys that has
nothing to do with my yak ranch that is a whole separate company but i get it it's jeffree star
people love to make everything into something that it's not and i've just been keeping to
myself for a few years so i know the girls wanted to get excited but this animal you can use it all
aspects whether it's a pet whether you're using it to ride up the mountain and you saddle train it
whether you are eating it whether you're using its horns the skull i mean this
animal is just it's been used for thousands and thousands of years so as i educated myself more
i tried yak me last year for christmas and i was like oh my god it's so good and it's so lean and i
get that a lot of people may not even know what a yak was until jeffrey lynn popped up on the scene
i have a yak ranch now and we are selling meat and i'm just gonna say it one more time in
case you haven't seen tik tok twitter instagram snapchat um but all of the yaks that i'm raising
for food they're in a back pasture yes they are still getting love and care and they're eating
amazing obviously they're all grass-fed but i don't name them i don't halter train them i don't
spend hours with them and at my ranch we don't have names for our food but that doesn't mean
that other ranches don't i know people that would raise someone like this and then 10 years
later they're like okay i fed you for 10 years now you're going to feed me and it's a very different
dichotomy so leaving the big city of la and educating myself of the
wyoming way and actually becoming a real rancher besides a cosmetic mogul um it's been amazing you
guys it's been so cool hi big dude so welcome to the star yak ranch let's keep educating
all right let's get to ranch
oh my god it is such a beautiful day out
okay you guys so we're going to show you some old footage because oh my god my hay barn is finally
filled okay so a while ago we we started yakking and i started with five yaks and then i looked
out in all this acreage and i was like where are they and i became obsessed with the yak culture
i learned every uh all the ranches in america i learned about the associations and i really like
went full in and i realized okay i really want to be a yak rancher
and i want way more so fast forward to in a year's time we now have 125 because we just had five new
babies oh my god since i last posted but we're at 225 yaks for pets and breeding they're so amazing
a lot of new babies this week but i needed a hay barn so hi this is massive so look at
okay so look at this old footage so this was from months ago you guys now the weather here
can be crazy you can't do construction when it's you know below zero and 20 inches of snow
so you see me standing in a field of sticks oh my god and it was cool just
to see the foundation of this structure get put together from literally zero to nothing so
it's been fun to watch all the transformations and things just come together out here and now hi
look at this barn it's really big and you may be wondering why is there no black doors well there
is a shortage because of covid right the supply chain right um and we're about to paint it finally
but there's only white doors available and the hay barns here now over here we talked about the yak
salon it is not built yet finally now that it's summer we're going to start this insane project
right now this looks like a i don't know what so this will be the yak salon where
we'll be able to groom all the yaks it'll have heating and air conditioning a wash station
it's going to be pretty magical i want to just do something next level now that there's so many
yaks grooming will be way easier now i do love of course grooming in the pasture and just chilling
with them but for some of the more wild yaks or yaks with a little ordinary personalities this
is just it'll be perfect for it okay now there's an aluminum shortage in wyoming and
if you want a custom plate they just cut you off so thank god i got my yaks trailer plate
oh my god a few days ago thank the lord but you guys oh my god we've been mastering
yaks halter training them getting them in and out of the trailer it's been really really cool
oh the breeze is coming the breeze is coming here come this way so we got a trailer we've
been really working the yaks for months now now we have this amazing exotic animal trainer and
animal behavior specialist come to town miss terry lindley and she is amazing she comes from oklahoma
and um we're gonna insert some footage right now oh my god we had the best time with her
she is amazing and it's really like you know the animals this is their world and we're living in it
so we got to really experience how to handle a yak how to you know handle its personality
and you see us um struggling sometimes it's really we're the ones struggling the animal
is gonna learn how it wants to learn and yaks are so intelligent they're way smarter than cows
and terry taught us so much so we're halter training we're leading we're getting them in
and out of a trailer with ease and they're just learning to really be comfortable with humans so
we had the best time with her and just looking at this footage makes me smile so much terri you're a
[ __ ] rock star thank you so much for all that you've taught us and she's actually coming here
later this summer some of the um yaks you're looking at right now will get a refresher from
miss terry and a lot of our new babies will get halter trained for the first time and it's just
such a cool experience so if you want friendly yaks you really gotta spend a lot of time with
them and i think that our time with terry was just exponentially invaluable so just to educate
everyone every pet on the star yak ranch has a pink ear tag some people thought if they were
ear tagged that meant they were going to the butcher let me clear up all the rumors so this
cool thing is there is two yak associations and you can register their dna get all their heritage
their parentage um and it's really cool so every yak that is staying at the starjack ranch and we
are using for breeding or just to love on they all have names like high titanic gold rush rich [ __ ]
and of course two faced so every yak has these as you see on instagram or from ever posting them
now you can go to assyacks.org and you can go to the yak registry and type in this number and
you can see all the info about the yak so no this is not meaning they're going bye-bye um these are
our loved animals now behind me these animals are going to actually slaughter tomorrow no they are
not uh halter trained they are not uh named and they just have just normal tags now these animals
are now being finished with uh grass fed only so they're eating a grass an alfalfa mix right
now um there is zero grain or treats given to our yaks that will beat kung food where our pets um in
the pastures you'll see us giving them apple and oak treats they love those horse treats i think
it's so important to educate yourself and know where your food comes from living in california
i had no idea about that stuff nor did i care and as i started really fully living out here
and changing my diet everything i mean i stopped eating fast food two years ago i may have you know
cheated once or twice and had raising canes in denver but fast food now disgust me where like
that was that was my whole brand [ __ ] i was at taco bell every day on instagram like living and
i'm not proud of that person i'm proud of the jeffrey lynn that stands here today with clear
skin a real like i'm toned i feel way better i'm not bloated tired even i think the food was
making me moody and depressed and it was really a part of everything i was going through so to
know where your food is raised is so important and these animals are just living their lives freely
until it's time to be on someone's plate and yak meat is so good it's so delicious and i really
can't wait for more people to explore and dive in because the health benefits are amazing um okay
now let me show you guys my meat all right you guys now i'm sure you've seen this online it's
been all over the news but yes you guys i am officially selling yak meat all different cuts
from sirloins to roast to ground yak you can make meatballs from this hamburgers tacos oh my god
if you're bored google the health benefits of this you guys it is absolutely amazing 90 fat free the
red wine colors because yaks have a massive um lung capacity because obviously they're used to
high altitudes their red blood vessels are just different than other cattle they're very sturdy
um and the meat is just gorgeous so oh my god hi cooler so yes you guys we will be shipping
yak meat all over america on star yaks.com the site is being um built right now and we're very
excited yesterday we'll be in coolers with dry ice and everything is usda inspected
um and it's just done the right way so now that i'm raising my own animals for food i don't
really eat other meat like the thought of eating a mcdonald's cheeseburger which is that even real um
like literally makes me sick but when i go out i love enjoying other stuff now like pasta and fish
and things but like i really only eat my meat now which is so cool all right you guys so thank you
so much for coming along on this crazy journey um hi this is star creek road so when i bought
a lot of this land um there was access roads where people could drive through my land and it was just
obnoxious i just wanted my privacy so i built this road nutella come on pumpkins
living in la i had no idea you could build your own road um and the county let me name it casper
has been so incredible i really love the city it is just full of real hard-working kind people
um like i just have been traded so great um everything from opening up new businesses to
my horrendous car accident um i've just been shown nothing but love out here so casper i
love you wyoming thank you so much for being so [ __ ] beautiful it's a nutella all right
you guys there is a lot of growing here at the starjack ranch there's so many new babies coming
and i'm very excited to expand now if you're in town or you're passing through the star yak burger
has officially joined the busiest restaurant in all of wyoming the amazing steakhouse it's called
fire rock it's on 2nd street here in casper it is my favorite restaurant and it is an honor to
be on the menu so if you're in town check it out and i'll see you guys on the next video bye y'all