Pooey Mooleys.
Went to the farm for practical again. Put on our oh-so-fashionable swamp green overalls. And as Brian the brain so rightly clarified, overalls go OVER your clothes, NOT under them, otherwise they would be called UNDERalls. But if you sit on the fence Jiamin says you can always wear SOMEalls.
More overall fun! Valerie and William aka Wilma were putting on theirs in the vet farm carpark and they realised they were wearing each others overalls. Val's ones were just nice and Will's ones were too short. So they switched. Then Val remembered Will's torn pocket and lo and behold! They were actually wearing the correct ones in the first place, Wilma's ones had shrunk in the wash! Lydia was pretty worried about Will getting hurt in the you-know-where when bending down to pick up the piggies...
I did cattle today. Vast difference in noise levels other than the occasional intolerant MOO! Much less smelly than the piggies too. Come to that, the piggies next door weren't as squealy as they were last week. My group probably "broke" them all in!
We had to recognise the breeds (Jersey cows look like they have eye makeup on!), age them (involving looking at udder development and looking in their drooly mouths to see teeth eruption) and condition scoring (ie: how much steak can we get out of this cow if we send it to market?). Learnt how to put halters and nose clips (ow) on them and we got to test their milk too! The only thing I haven't tried yet is drawing blood from them, but I can find their veins well enough!
While cleaning up the cattle yards with a full on fireman's hose and wondering how a herd of cows could generate so much poo in a few hours the farmer ran in telling the teacher vet that one of the cows that was dehorned on Monday was giving birth! The only problem was the cow was too young to be able to calve as her birth canal was still too small! Apparently this was a case of "teenage pregnancy" gone wrong. The cow must have been impregnated by a young bull while she was sexually mature but not yet physically mature, a case of really bad farm management there. Not the vet school, the place they just bought the horned cattle from. Anyway we were allowed to go watch the impending C-section but I had to go for a driving lesson...= ( Called to check in later because Wengyan said these things usually take a couple of hours but the operation had already taken place. Calf was well and they would probably foster the male calf (get another more mature cow to mother it). Wish I was there to see it!