Why is yak's milk pink?

Question

My 4 year old asked me this question on the way to play-school... don't ask me how he knows it is pink, but i said I would find out. Someone must know the answer!!!!

Answer 1

lol.. supposedly there are cows that produce pink milk after eating carrots. Also, echidna milk actually changes color. When lactation first starts it is very thin and white. As lactation continues it turns pink because of it being very high in iron. As for kangaroos, saturated lactoferrin crystals are pink, and when unsaturated they are colorless. In wallaby milk they are mostly saturated... hence the pink milk.

So.. about the yaks.. when a calf is born the first supplies of milk are always tinted with blood, giving it a pinkish color (gross, I know) This milk is called beastings and has more protein but gradually the milk progresses to the usual color of white as the calf gets weaned.

hope that helps you explain it to your kid..

Answer 2

Yak Milk Pink

Answer 3

Because in Yak's milk there is strawberry flavors(hence the pink color)from the grazing of strawberry patches,much like Nesquick strawberry milk....Tasty....Tom Science 4

Answer 4

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That yak milk is pink in colour is an urban myth. Yak milk is a creamy yellow colour.

Answer 5

Sorry for passing along a website to answer your question. I don't normally do that, but my mental library of Yak facts is a little dry. :)


Hope this helps.

Answer 6

I didn't know it was pink? Weird! Would is be blood in the milk? My grandparents have goats and sometimes they leave blood in the milk.

Answer 7

I think it's hippos that have pink milk but I don't know why...

Answer 8

I always thought it had traces of blood in it, as explained by one answerer above...

Answer 9

Nesquick in the udders.

Answer 10

Mummy should always know the answer. Make one up.