First moose farm

The world´s first farm devoted to the domestication and rearing of the moose (Alces alces) – the world´s biggest species of deer – primarily for milk and cheese production is Kostroma Moose Farm in Kostroma Oblast, Russia. An experimental moose farm was launched in 1949 by Yevgeny Knorre and the staff of the Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve outside Yaksha in Russia´s Komi Republic. Then in 1963, Kostroma´s Moose Farm was established, where a herd of free-ranging semi-domesticated moose is maintained. It presently includes 10-15 milk-producing moose cows, with over 800 moose individuals having lived on the farm during its existence.