Monday, January 30, 2006


Where do you go to milk a Moose? You go to Mooseland near Cape Spear,on Newfoundlands Avalon peninsula.OK, question number two,why the hell would you milk a Moose?You would milk a Moose in order to get cheese!Question number three, Who's going to do the milking? Why a Dentist of course. OK, about now you think your halfway into a Newfie joke, but your wrong! It appears that a St. John’s dentist Zachary Pan who holds a master’s degree in biology wants to establish a reserve here on the island and produce a tonne of moose cheese annually. Moose cheese it seems fetches up to $500 U.S. per lb. and the place he figures would make a tourist attraction also. It's already a proven success in Sweden and Zachary Pan wants to try it here.The guy needs some moose calfs to start off and with 150,000 animals here im sure he shouldn't have no trouble getting a few after months and months of government red tape.I found this quite amusing after seeing it on the local news but now i say good luck Mr. Pan! Im also looking forward to seeing the want ad in the local paper: Wanted,Moose Milker,must love animals and have warm hands.

(Few tidbits here showing it can be done:
Stockholm , Sweden – It's healthy and tasty, for those with expensive tastes! Farmers in northern Sweden are milking moose and making cheese, which they then sell for nearly $500 a pound. The demand is high from buyers such as upscale hotels and restaurants.
Christer Johansson and his wife, Ulla, started their 59 – acre dairy farm seven years ago in Bjursholm, 404 miles north of Stockholm . It's called “Moose House” and has the status of being the only moose dairy farm in Europe . As a result, about 25,000 people visit each year.
The Johanssons currently have 14 moose in the fields but only three can be milked.
The moose only produce milk between May and September. It takes up to two hours to milk a moose and they produce up to a gallon of milk a day. The farm produces around 660 pounds of cheese each year. )

4 comments:

Toby said...

Ha, Wayne, it's even hit my news here in Milwaukee. It didn't say anything about the cheese and its price though.

Strow said...

Moose cheese?? I think ill stick to the cow cheese for now.

gross.

Justin said...

Hope he doesn't screw up and try to milk a bull moose, he'd either get killed or wind up with a friend for life. I'll stay away from moose cheese for now, just in case he doesn't know the difference. ;)

NL-ExPatriate said...

The Moose cheeze is also purported to have alot of cancer fighting properties.

Here are my links to Moose farming.

http://nl-outsidethebox.blogspot.com/2005/11/moose-milk-anyone.html
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Farm_Raised_Game/index.asp
http://www.time.com/time/asia/tga/article/0,13673,501040524-638538,00.html
http://www.inmgroup.net/countycrier/countycriercom/id28.html
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/news/2004/0624/1827441.html
http://www.nopho.org/annual_meetings/umeaa/social_program.htm
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/EGK-Genregulation/temp-Umea%20pics.htm
http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk/stories/moose/moose.htm
http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/documentd451.html
http://www.mainelyphotos.com/