#cows

[frontmansdefender]

“How’s life?”

Me:

[vaguegesticulations]

@politebajablast

[soft-stims]

Highland Cow stimboard for anon

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[fluffysheeps]

Spring moo-d! 🐮💐🍓

[highlandcattleofsaarela]

[accessible-tumbling]

[image description: Art of Firepaw, Ravenpaw, and Graypaw from the early Warrior Cats books. But they’re cows instead of cats, and the word “paw” in their names has been replaced with “hoof”.

Ravenhoof is a black cow with a white star on his face. He stands looking uncertain.

Firehoof is an orange cow with a cowbell around his neck. He appears to be prancing.

grayhoof is a greyish brown cow with fluffy fur. He smiles bravely with one front leg raised. End ID]

Happy birthday to warrior cats, here are the kiddos that started it all but they’re cows now

[ggarbagee]

🐮

[eggsaladstain]

defying the odds with mama

[discrepancybot]

It's National Dairy Month. And they don't call Wisconsin "The Dairy State" for nothing.

June is National Dairy Month

To commemorate National Dairy Month we are showing a farm to table progression of a glass of milk. The first three images, from the 1910s, come from the Roman B.J. Kwasniewski Photographs and can be accessed through the Milwaukee Polonia digital collection. The last photograph is from the James Blair Murdoch Photograph Collection, it is dated 1938 and shows Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Maske enjoying their milk. This photograph can be accessed through our digital collections.

Man stands next to dairy cattle in milking stalls, 04/01/1918, Kwasniewski: “On Farm”, A04210

Man standing with Gridley Dairy milk jugs, [undated], A00176

Man inside horse-drawn dairy delivery wagon, [undated], Wagon reads, “Distributors Kieckhefer’s Certified Milk”, A07096

Man and woman drinking milk, 11/09/1938, Golden Guernsey Dairy, UWMMSS131_0668

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Hi! I just watched a video of a C-section being performed on a cow. I knew these are done with some regularity, but actually watching one has me amazed the outcomes are good. There is no sterile environment (though the cow is of course shaved and the skin washed, but still, at one point her intestines were hanging over a metal fence). And in this case the calf was on the opposite side of the incision, so the actual "birth" happened inside the body cavity. Wouldn't that leave amniotic fluid and all sorts of bloods/remnants to be stitched up inside the body cavity? How do these cows survive this without developing incredible internal infections? Or is this aggressively treated? And does the cow really not feel anything with local anaesthetic? Also I'm not sure if I saw the peritoneum being stitched up again, does that just heal on its own? It seemed to be under some tension. Not sure if you've had personal experience with these procedures but I was quite impressed and fascinated! (and feeling quite sorry for the heifer)

So I'm definitely not a cow vet, but based on my memories of bovine medicine and surgery lectures, standing flank c-sections (with only local nerve blocks) are actually standard practice for cattle. When the analgesia is administered correctly, the cow may feel movement/pressure but would not feel any pain. Spillover of the amniotic contents into the peritoneum, like you describe, is considered a complication though. She would need to be flushed thoroughly at the very least. And it should be a 3-layer closure (uterus, peritoneum/muscles, and skin).

These surgeries are typically done in the field, though I do think draping guts over the fence would be... inadvisable. A surgical suite would be ideal, but cattle are livestock to most owners, and it would be impractical for farmers to invest that kind of money into one individual. So farm vets make do, and the outcomes, remarkably, are typically pretty good.

Cows are basically the opposite of horses in their incredible ability to survive things that would kill most other animals. I remember hearing stories in school about old-timey cattle blood transfusions: incising the donor's cow's vein, draining the blood into a bucket, then stitching her up and transfusing the bucket blood into the recipient cow. It amazes and lowkey terrifies me.

[nafixabae]

Y'all like cows???🐂🐄🐮

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[lovelolla]

[thesaltofcarthage]

my nam is cow my fase is wite in herd of dark i show up brite

my frend is bull his horns are big seriously, dude, how do you carry those things your neck must really hurt all the time