in this horrifying context (palpation for pregnancy), it's a glove that is put on so a vet/vet tech can reach up into a cow's anus and feel through the rectal+uterine walls for the presence of a fetus at around 45 days after insemination/natural service to determine if the cow/heifer is "open" (not pregnant) or "bred" (pregnant), thus letting the herd manager make a judgement about sorting or selling the cow.
if they really wanted to make it real, they would have smeared some fresh cow pats on the glove to drive the image home.
I have seen some irreverent and off-putting agricultural-based humor in my time, but these people are fucked in the head.
Oh so this is a pregnancy announcement...
That makes it worse somehow
Makes me wonder how many kilotons they have planned for the gender reveal party.
Stuff like this makes me more :flag-lesbian-pride: than :flag-bi-pride:
Our comrade up there is just trying to say that we should abolish cow farms and replace them with grain farms so we can make more bread. :vegan-liberation: :vegan-edge:
Affectionally called the
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R*pe rack
I believe.
Omnis are not okay.
I am speechless.
I’ve seen this before, but words continue to fail me.
Apparently cows don't mind it the machine itself, it's also called the hug box because it calms them?
idk how they feel about farmers shoving their arms up their ass, I'm not gonna look that shit up.
:bugs-no: :no-copyright: :no:
https://twitter.com/dril/status/922321981?s=19I knew someone that did this as a job. They didn't do the insemination, they were just the vet that birthed the cows and checked if they were pregnant. They were very nonchalant about it, kinda freaked me out a bit.
May I ask why? I’ve always known many people who raise animals so it’s probably just not obvious to me for that reason.
They were a vet, couldn't get any other work, and didn't want to spend the rest of their life working for very little money at a camp type thing.
Me being a bit freaked out is because they straight up said their job is to shove their entire arm down a cows asshole, unprompted out of nowhere
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Through context, I'm pretty sure it's one of those racks which holds cows in place while a farmer shoves his entire arm (hence the glove) up their ass while artificially inseminating them.
up their ass while artificially inseminating them.
Now look I didn't really participate in the family farm and I did my level best to avoid my high school's myriad ag classes, but I'm pretty sure this ain't how it works.
You are incorrect, that is exactly how it works. The gloved hand goes in the ass.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not making a joke. If you think that sounds too fucked up to be true, you are witnessing the horror of our carnist hellworld.
Cow anatomy is fucked up lol. This just makes me more thankful that 1.) the fam just let a bull do his thing and 2.) I did not elect to take bovine science or whatever
Fun fact I knew someone whose job it was to travel around with a cooler of bull semen and deliver it to ranchers who use artificial techniques
The machine itself is used to keep cows calm . Though I wonder how much of that is true and how much is it just wanting to believe it because it's also super convenient for restraint. Kind of like how lobotomies made very difficult patients easier to deal with and coincidentally happened to be acceptable science at a time with a lot of difficult patients and no method to deal with them. Also Temple was the FDR of animal rights. She made a compromise that satisfied enough people to keep the industry from changing or going away.
