Was out by Lake Ozette this week came across these in a pasture along side the road. Was wondering if they raise them for meat or milk. I suppose that's how those loggers out there got so ornery and tough.
Looks like meat to me
Then there's the herds near Enumclaw. You know what they raise those for?
Don't ask, Don't tell.
If its like the majority of the penned elk herds in the midwest the antlers will be harvested in velvet and ground into powder to be sent to China and other far east areas. They Use them for purported enhanced sexual performance. Probably the only thing we export to them. The older farm raised cows go for meat because as domesticated they can be legally be sold.
These were in Bonny Lake. None are farmed. They have to catch em to milk em.
After another look at the first pictures the fence is far to low to hold elk in. Here and in Wisconsin there are quite a few elk farms. Not a bad looking bull with these cows. I do love my elk hunting.
Well I was the first hunter thru the check station at the Sunshine Resovouir in Wyoming with an Elm......On the back of my 3/4' Chevy P/U....but i had the bed off for work and the Elk was On The Frame!
1949 Stepside with the corner windows. ......head and Rack Draped Oner the licence plate!
yep, and a fence like that they just blow through anyways. Usually got to spend half a day fixing fence after a herd come through the area
I have seen similar wild elk herds when traveling between Raymond and Pe Ell, WA. As many as 30-35 a couple of times.
Dean Creek near Reedsport Oregon almost always has a herd hanging about, at times during the year you will find a large group of females laying down in one area and all the bulls mixing it up a ways away, LOL. It is a refuge and the locals let's just say are a bit protective of them while they're bringing in the tourists!
Cross White Pass between Yakima and Packwood in the middle of the night at snowmelt time... I counted 48 Deer and 32 Elk one night. You drive really carefully, Of course they're standing in the road slurping up all the DOT road salt.
John, I assume that photo was taken at Connell's Prairie?
It was somewhere close to where my brother lives. I thought is a cool photo with the mountain in the background.
Cool photo indeed. That is real close to my place. I am always amazed at how habitual elk are, you always see them in the same places around here, but never around my house in the past 20 years.
They seem to be in the habit of disappearing during hunting season as well.
... and sometimes they reappear just inside city limits. Apparently they have enough understanding of municipal code to know where the discharge of firearms is prohibited.
Just like ghosts sometimes. Must be related to bigfoot.
Saw close to 200 yesterday between Naches & Randle.