Kostroma Moose Farm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostroma_Moose_Farm

by soperj • 7 years ago

30 11 7 years ago

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Someone• 7 years ago

It seems domesticating animals was popular in the USSR. They tried with foxes, too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_red_fox)

Also, the link in the footnote on ”Rare photos from that period, one of a moose being ridden and one of a moose pulling a sledge, were included in the 1969 paper "Behavioural changes in elk in the process of its domestication"[2]” works.

IMO, that page (http://www.moose-farm.ru/e010.htm) is more interesting than the Wikipedia article. Among others, it gave me https://youtube.com/watch?v=nOOfGQyE2hQ

soperj• 7 years ago

hahaha. That is amazing. Moose in the bed would scare the hell out of me though.

beloch• 7 years ago

I'd be curious about this farm's safety record. Wild moose are unpredictable and powerful. One thing that can trigger moose attacks is if one group of people feeds a moose and then another group denies it food. What happens if somebody is late with the steamed oats?

cbsmith• 7 years ago

"In particular, one is advised not to try to start a moose farm for meat production: the meat output will not cover the costs of production (which could be ten times as high as those of beef production), and, besides, free-range moose are not stupid, and they will not be coming back to the farm where their kin are being slaughtered. A couple of operators in Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod Oblasts went out of business trying to do this."

toomanybeersies• 7 years ago

Deer farming (mostly red deer) has been very successful in New Zealand. Would moose farming be that much different?

b_tterc_p• 7 years ago

A moose is two to three times the mass of a red deer, or more. I’m not sure you can assume they’re similar.

noselasd• 7 years ago

Moose is not a herd animal - it's significantly easier to farm heard animals like red deer. Nor do they require as big a range or as varied a diet as moose.

Aloha• 7 years ago

This particular quote stood out at me too, and I was going to quote it as well.

dreen• 7 years ago

I visited a moose farm in Sweden https://www.moosegarden.com Highly recommended! The moose are brought up there from young calves with humans around them, so they are very friendly, as you can see from the videos: https://www.facebook.com/pg/moosegardensweden/videos/

Some things I learnt there:

- Moose cheese is among the most expensive in the world

- Moose poop during winter time can and is made into paper

- Moose skin during summer time produces oil that smells like fabric softener. I purchased several soap bars made from this.

- Moose need a lot of space and a varied diet, so keeping them in captivity is not easy.

AzzieElbab• 7 years ago

Kostroma Mon amour

spbr• 7 years ago

lol why is my home town on hackernews

Kostroma Moose Farm

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