A start to my research on cow diseases.
This entry will no doubt get more disgusting before it gets better.
I’ll be asking some experts some questions soon as well.
If you’d told me I’d be learning about Blackleg and Wooden Tongue during the Christmas season, I would have laughed and laughed…
Catherine
ETA: You tube link to video on artificial insemination.
Video: Me Inseminating a Cow
Have you read the James Herriot books yet? Very good stuff, actually. Anecdotes about veterinary life woven into a large-scale history of the post-industrial changes in agrarian Britain. It’s real fiction disguised as a sentimental bestseller, and Herriot is not afraid to get down-and-dirty — his first appearance has him up to his shoulder in a cow…
You are the second person who has recommended it in this context. I should get it on my list.
Catherine