Development of a new yak breed through utilization of wild yak genetic resource - serial technologies for the development of the Datong yak breed

Summary On the Datong Yak Breeding Farm of Qinghai Province (Datong farm), the scientists of the Lanzhou Institute of Animal Science and Veterinary Pharmaceutics of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in collaboration with others, explored the possibility to cross wild yak bulls with domestic yak cows in the past 20 years and a new yak breed, the Datong yak, has been developed.