Slaughter house trips

We have been taking a lot of farm trips this semester (1-4 times a week). It is because this semester is about livestock animals, next is about horses. 

Most of my evenings were spent like this, even if i was being productive or not.

We went to 2 different slaughter houses with reproduction class. 

The first was horrible; the conditions where bad, the cows where being abused, it was really unsafe and extremely stressful for the cattle. So I refused to do the vaginal and rectal examination, because it felt like rape and horrible abuse. Of course got in trouble, but it seems okay now. 

The second slaughter house was much better. The cows were in good condition, it was safer environment. BUT but they still used the electrical-sticks to move the cows, which was bad. 

"I wish the meat tasted bad when the animals had been stressed at the slaughter house." 

The examinations where better too, when an animal had been examined by a few people, there was a switch of animal. At the precious place they had been examined until there was blood running out of there rectums.

So it was a much better experience at the second place. That is where the pictures are from.

We where doing rectal palpation of cattle for reproduction evaluation.

You can feel the cervix at the bring of pelvis, then you pull it up a bit and try to follow the uterine body, horns and eventually palpate the ovaries.