Russian Farmers are successfully able to milk the moose after many have failed trying to domesticate these animals for centuries. The secret they employed was to sound like one of the moose’ calves and smell like one of them.
Milking the moose must be the last thing one might have imagined, but is happening in
Russia and is a growing industry. The milk is used in sanatoriums and used to treat gastroenterological diseases.
How the Russians were able to successfully milk the moose? By persistence and acting just like one of them. Farmers were able to grow moose in a free range and by covering themselves with a scent that smells like a calf, they were able to attract the females. Check the video link at the bottom, it is just like the diary industry, instead of the cows the moose does the same, walks into the pen and lets them to be milked.
The Russian Farmer makes a fake call of the calf moose via the megaphones, the female moose after hearing the call, comes running to the pen to be milked. When one of the farmer milks the moose, it thinks one of the calf is sucking from its teats because of the calf smell the farmer wears on her clothes.
Scientists in Russia have been researching the benefits for the milk for decades. They published one report in a Russian medical journal Voprosy Pitaniia and claim the following:
“it is advisable that moose's milk be used in combined therapy and for prevention of gastroenterological diseases in children”.
Head doctor at the Ivan Susanin Sanatorium Natalya Yuskevich told the BBC that moose milk is very helpful for their patients. It tastes like the cow’s milk but has more fat and protein. They use the moose milk to treat gastrointestinal diseases like ulcers.
You can watch the video
here.
Will Canada be the next to domesticate these animals? :-)
Russian farmers start milking the moose
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