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Wintering Elk

jodywy

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Cabin Creek, Carlile,Wyoming
There a Wyoming Game and Fish feed ground north of me about 25 miles. They feed them to keep them off the cattle feed lines and out of haystacks.
We headed south yesterday after noon thru the High Desert of western Wyoming and northeastern Utah, they are higher then the valley floor here.
Well south of Cokeville on the BQ there were big herds of elk mainly cows, more at Sage junction.
The Desseret leaves hay in windrows and turn their cows in after it snow sometimes using an electric fence to make the cows clean up the hay before it gets moved. Well the cow were gone to another part of the ranch and there was a herd of Elk bulls numbering way over a 100 slicking up what hay was left under the snow. Looked funny they were in straight lines.
 
Elk are beautiful creatures. We saw huge herds of them in Oregon. I can admire them because my cattle don't have to fight them for feed.
 
CattleArmy said:
Elk are beautiful creatures. We saw huge herds of them in Oregon. I can admire them because my cattle don't have to fight them for feed.

I'm glad you added that last sentence! These "beauties" eat with our cows everyday, as soon as they hear the tractor, they start filing up from the river
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The other day driving to work I noticed a local guy must have bought some alfalfa and it was piled close to the road. Munching on the bales was about 6 with 30 of their friends on the way.

Thank you for posting the pictures!
 

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