Brave Bruce the Yak Saved From Icy Doom By Heroic Farmhands Brendan O'Connor · 02/02/14 05:15PM Bruce the yak is a 3-year-old yak from Boonton, NJ who fell through the ice into a duck pond on Wednesday. Tina Krawczyk, manager of Brookhollow's Barnyard (where Bruce lives), noticed his horns sticking up amongst the ducks.