Cows skin is very thick… like leather! (Sorry bad cow joke.) Their immune system is also prone to overreaction… what this means is simple foreign bodies or even blood blisters (hematomas) can develop into large fluid filled abscesses. Left to their own devices, they can become quite large before eventually eroding through the skin leaving a large open wound. By lancing, unplugging, draining, and flushing them, they tend to heal very quickly. On this day we had found her whilst pregnancy testing 300 cows and heifers and then Artificially Inseminating (AI) another 180. Because these animals live in large open paddocks, that is usually when we find them and can then render them assistance.
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