Cherry Alexander

Moose Dairy

Moose Dairy

Six o’clock on a June morning in western Russia sunshine spills across a farmyard as a woman carrying a pail approaches a milking barn. This classic rural scene is still common in parts of Russia today, but inside the barn the scene changes from common to bizarre. For there, standing in a milking stall is not a cow, a goat, or even a sheep, but Nella, a six foot tall 500kg moose.