Comments on: Virtual Cow Butt

By: Merilee

Merilee — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:14:40 +0000

Calves are born via the rectum? Really? Are you SURE??

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:41:37 +0000

Melissa, I’m sure it is horrid for the cow to have an amateur practice on her!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:14:32 +0000

Tony-
That training method sounds horrific! This new method sure sounds awesome in comparison with that.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:12:06 +0000

Subodh,
I bet you’re absolutely right when the circumstances are optimal, the new ultrasound technology would be super. However, vets should be trained in the old fashioned methods,too, for situations where portable ultrasound machines and such aren’t readily available or would be impractical. While the modern high-tech way might be a vet’s primary way of doing things at their office or on-site at modern high-volume cattle operations, vets should be familiar with the low-tech way in case they have to make a house call and do things on the fly and don’t or can’t have the new technology on hand in time. I can imagine lots of reasons why it might be hard use the new tech to tend to an emergency in a rustic rural back pasture in the middle of the night.

By: subodh kumar

subodh kumar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:51:10 +0000

Sir,
There is practically no need to fall back upon old traditional detection of pregnancy in cows by inserting a hand.
There are a number of systems based on ultrasonics to detect pregnancy in a cow.
A catheter -probe- is inserted in the cow and the ultrasonic system gives good information about fetus in the cow.

By: pwscott

pwscott — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:51:46 +0000

I’ve seen a similar apparatus used to extract sperm from horses. I never wanted to be a vet.

By: meg

meg — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:19:58 +0000

Wow, this is way better than the whole just “get in there and do it” way that I had to learn.

Tony-That’s a really interesting way to learn vet stuff! We only use our fistulated cows up here for learning about rumen anatomy and rumen contents and how to make sure that the cow is digesting properly.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:31:47 +0000

This is pretty cool. I go to Kansas State University, they do a LOT of agricultural work.

To date, one of the ways they could monitor and teach vet stuff regarding cows was literally installing a hole in their side, complete with a plastic washer in the cow’s side to prevent the hole from healing up.

http://www.damninteresting.com/hole-y-cow