GALLERY

Autumn


In the early autumn moose cows prefer to graze clover fields


Young calves like to spend days in fields, too


Clover is their preferred food


Salt with mineral supplements is given ad libitum


The calves weighing over 100 kg, are ready for winter cold


No flies, no gnats, no hunters: idyl days


Only scientists disturb occasionally.


Can you do anything like this?


To the night pastures


Only domestic moose can spend daytime in an open field


The less food in the forest, the more food in hands


She likes chocolates


There are ten farm moose and one wild on this field near the farm (view from a laboratory window)


Moose do not eat hay


Luchik was 7 years old when this photo was taken


The moose cow noticed the buck near the milking shed


In the autumn mushrooming people can see moose in couples


During the rut period a male moose sometimes follows a female for over a week - and waits, defending her from other pretenders


Fight through a fence is absolutely harmless


Wild males come closer to the farm during the rut period


A wild male


Wild males are larger and older than domestic ones; they hang around the farm during the rut period


A flehmen reaction is a kind of chemical analysis. The buck found the cow's urine and must find out if she is ready for coupling


Domestic females love wild bucks more than smaller farm moose males


The evening near the farm


They met in the early morning...


and came to the farm together


The male may enter the milking shed


He will wait patiently while milking


Inside the milking shed


Observation conditions are the best if animals do not pay attention to scientists' work


It is possible to clean domestic Luchik from parasites


And this is a threat. Moose requires me to move to a distance


The younger must grow up before pretending


Male will wait cow to be ready for coupling


Do not disturb them now


Only a domestic male can refresh himself with a bucket of oatmeal after rendezvous


The farm doors are too narrow for his antlers


Adult and young


Calves are playing. Fight for females is in the future


Did you bring me some carrot?


What a pity! Only guided tours...


Push again, the motor almost started!


After the milking period is over, the most of moose cows prefer to spend the autumn near the farm...


...but Nilashka likes the Governor's countryhouse near Volga. We try to return her home


As a rule, cows follow their milkmaids. To cross the Poksha river as quick as possible, we must run over the bridge


We have just replaced the GPS collar


Autumn fog


Landscape at dawn


Landscape at dawn


Take a bus in the early morning (if you can...) and visit the moose farm


Touch a wonderful animal like we use to do