Feeding and care
First step
Moose, like all mammals, drinks milk in childhood. The quality of milk greatly affects the young body.
Moose milk has about 22% fat content, and it is difficult to find suitable milk, you have to feed it with goat, cow or a substitute, but what is important to know is not to give milk from the store in any case.
Goat's milk is desirable, but cow's milk is also possible, the milk should be fresh, be sure to make sure that it is warm before giving it, the milk temperature is 38.5 degrees. Be sure to keep espumizan, tympanol, droppers, cardiomin, vitamins, hot water bottles, syringes and droppers, activated charcoal and oak bark (for decoction) on hand. In no case should you prick the elk's hat, it is fatal for them.
The first days the moose does not eat anything but milk, but already on the 3-4 day they begin to slowly eat leaves and clay, clay normalizes digestion, and on the 7th day they already fully eat the leaves of different plants, they have raspberry leaves, meadowsweet and different flowers in priority.
They should always have salt and water in the public domain.
From the age of one month, their diet expands greatly, as summer comes, and everywhere everything blooms and grows in full swing.
They like to swim and also dive under water up to 6 meters deep, they feast there on algae and other plants that grow in the water. By the way, algae is the most useful thing that a moose can get from food. In males, horns are formed large and beautiful from just such a feed.
Moose can be given carrots as a treat, but no more than 0.5 kg per day.
They can also have oatmeal, but also, no more than 0.5 kg per day.
Do not forget that the main food of moose is tree branches, various types of bushes, plants and mushrooms.
Winter feeding
The diet is greatly reduced with the onset of cold weather, and the search becomes very complicated. Since they eat mainly willow and aspen in winter.
The search for a suitable or fallen one takes more time than the forage collection itself. From aspen, they love not only the buds and thin branches, but also the bark itself, it is very nutritious and useful for them at this time of year. They can also sometimes eat young shoots of coniferous trees.
During the winter, moose in nature lose up to 30% of their weight, they have to move a lot and eat little, in winter they are especially vulnerable to predators.
The diversity of the moose's food supply will affect the level of health and the growth of horns in males, and productivity in females.