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I went to a friends cabin (more like mansion [shocked]) this weekend to do some wheelin' and on the way there we stopped and looked at some farm raised elk. I felt bad for them but the kiddos thought it was neat. I found out later that the .....ummmm, big daddy? Lives in Montana and donates his swimmers a few times a year to some unwilling cows. People pay thousands of dollars to shoot these elk on a private ranch. Real sportsman like, eh?
They release them into the cedars and the pampered "hunters" choose which one they want. The color of the tags on the ear indicates the price of the bull. Makes me sick.
Anyways, the one thing I didn't ask was what kind of elk these are. I'm no great white hunter but these elk look different than the ones in the Rocky Mountains. I don't know if there are different breeds of elk like there are deer (I imagine there is), just looking for a little insight. Maybe it's just because they've been raised on a farm?
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It is hard for me to see how big those elk are in your pictures but there are three different sub-species of elk. Rocky mountain, Roosevelt and Tule. I think the Roosevelt or the Tule are bigger than the Rocky mountain elk that we have around here.
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Roosevelt and Tule are smaller in body size and average antler size than Rocky Mtn. subspecies.
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Acording to this [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_elk"]article[/url] there are four subspecies and the Roosevelt is the largest.
The Roosevelt elk ([url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk"]Cervus canadensis[/url] roosevelti), also known as Olympic elk, is the largest of the four surviving subspecies of [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk"]elk[/url] in North America.[url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_elk#cite_note-TUGtEH-1"][2][/url] They live in the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_forest"]rain forests[/url] of the [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest"]Pacific Northwest[/url] and were [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_species"]introduced[/url] to [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska"]Alaska[/url]'s [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afognak"]Afognak[/url] and [url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Island_%28Alaska%29"]Raspberry[/url] islands in 1928
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A lot of the ranch bulls have red stag blood cross breeded into them so that they will grow bigger and more palmated antlers.
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Roosevelt have larger bodies but smaller racks usually found along Pacific Coast states and I think the Tule also have smaller racks and are found mainly in Calif. Hard to beat the majestic Rocky Mountain elk for looks I think.
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Is the elk farm you are referring to, the one in Tabiona? That place is definitely neat, but dont know about the high fence hunt they are used for. Kinda uneventful for my tastes. I know that farm also slaughters elk for commercial purposes. You know they $30 a plate elk steak dinners at pricey restaurants.
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It was just before Mayfield.
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[quote polokid]Is the elk farm you are referring to, the one in Tabiona?[/quote]
I know which one you are talking about. In fact, 2 years ago we were out there on the elk hunt and up on a flat inside the "high fenced" area there were 3 mature bulls feeding. We were just sitting there glassing them, and along comes a truck right out onto the flat. The bulls just lifted their heads for a second then kept eating. The truck pulled up to within less than 100yds from one of the bulls, a guy gets out, kneels down and shoots it. He gets back in the truck, they drive over to the dead bull and the work begins.
GGGAAAAYYYYY!!!
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