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Cow with a 'viewing window'
>> Anonymous
Not bling enough
>> Anonymous
You need to pimp your cow more
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
Why would somebody do that?
>> Anonymous
>>184849

directly control/monitor cow's nutrient intake/milk output
>> Anonymous
>>184849
my aunt is currently a health inspector for the state (goes into restaurants and grocery stores to check for cleanlyness etc.) and she told me she had to do projects that involved cows like this. Not really sure what or why but something to do with understanding how they digest their foods.
>> Anonymous
>>184846

Somebody looks out of their element.
>> Anonymous
google came up with this

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=306

Nowadays, agricultural scientists learn about the digestive system of cattle by putting holes in cows - and the cows stay alive and well. These cows (fitted with a sealing cover called a "cannula") each have a hole into their stomach. Through this hole one can extract food caught mid-stream through the digestive system.
>> Anonymous
>>184870and the cows stay alive and well

I dunno, the OP pic looks kind of odd.
>> Anonymous
That's how they refill the gas tank.
>> Anonymous
>>184851

Stop guessing shit.
>> Xbox Anonymous
I've actually had the opportunity to view this kind of thing first hand in my agricultural class. They surgically cut a hole in their stomach and fill it with a rubber hole with a cork. That way they can take food out and study the micro-organisms that help breakdown the food in the cows stomach. We got to get out pieces of food and put them under the microscope and see all the little critters running around. It's all really cool, a cow doesn't have nerves in its stomach, so you can pull on it if you wanted to and it wouldn't hurt them. It felt like yanking on wet carpet.
Slightly unrelated, we had a cow that was very full, the cork was out and it sneezed and shot out half digested grass like a cannonball into the wall, lol
>> Anonymous
>>185014
A cow doesn't have nerves in the stomach? Interesting evolutionary move, so interesting it sounds like fucking bullshit.
>> Anonymous
OP is real. I live near UMASS amherst which has a huge vet program. I've seen this in real life before. Doesn't seem to bother the cow at all...it's probably just like those stupid plugs you see in some idiot's ear. Large and alarming, but not painful.
>> Anonymous
>>185069

Actually, if you do some research you'd see that nerves are only in the top layers of skin and sometimes fascia. Once you cut through that, the internal organs themselves are nerveless.

This is why brain surgery can be done with only local anesthetic, with the person still awake.
>> Anonymous
>>185077

This is only somewhat true. You're right that the brain contains no pain-sensing nerves, but they aren't limited to the outside of the body only. For example, broken bones, sprains, and dislocations are very painful even though these things can happen without disturbing the skin.

Your lungs can hurt if you inhale an irritating chemical or hot smoke.

But you are right that many internal organs don't have any pain-sensing nerves.

All organs have SOME nerves, just not necissarily of the pain-sensing type. There are other sorts of nerves as well.
>> Anonymous
>>184846
i've done that, long long ago
tis nice and warm and you can pull out grass that the cow has eaten
its actually not so bad once you get over the smell
>> Anonymous
>>185083

a possible solution for the pro-ana crowd without the side effects bulimia entails?
>> Anonymous
Sometimes animals are born with a fistula, which looks kind of like this, but not exactly.

Google fistula for more horrible pictures.
>> gizmogal !MmLOyiCYJs
woah what has science DONE?!?
>> Anonymous
>>185126
Put a viewing window in a cow.
>> Anonymous
>>185074
HELL YEAH UMASS!

I have stuck my hand in these cows. You're right, it's like a gauged ear lobe and the cows are oblivious to it. Sometimes a cow will stand up quickly and some of the gut content will spill out and look a bit messy, like in the OP.
>> Anonymous
>>185142
Sup, fellow UMass-er?

My suitemate last year was an animal science major. She came back smelling like barn all the time but told us awesome stories about pigs and their corkscrew dicks. I imagine she's stuck her hand in one of these guys by now.
>> Anonymous
This reminds me of the shit they do to bears sometimes in asian countries. Apparently some believe bear bile or whatnot is good for digestion or an aphrodisiac, cant remember which. They insert tubing and a tank to collect it, with a flap that opens so they can drain the tank occasionally.

But this sort of thing is cool since it doesnt really hurt the cows and actually helps us understand them and figure out problems and such they might have.
>> Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_St._Martin
>> Anonymous
I'm not buying the whole harmless and important to science bit. You could just as easily read a book or play around with freshly dead cow guts. If the things leak stomach ooze and pop open under pressure they're not hygienic.
>> Anonymous
>>185288
>You could just as easily read a book

Who would write the book if no one ever did the studies, dumbass?
>> Anonymous
>>185074
>>185142
>>185217
UMASS REPRESENT

A friend of mine who was an animal science major had to touch that. I will never touch her again but whatever.
>> Anonymous
We had some cows like that at the college. It's kinda creepy.
>> Anonymous
i've seen this at the U of Maryland
>> Anonymous
>>185312
lol @ UMASS zoophiles.
>> Anonymous
>>185671
Terps? In MY 4chan?

But seriously, as harmless as it may be to the cow, it still looks pretty fuckin' wrong.
>> Anonymous
Of course it's bad for the cow! Why listen to trained scientists and people who have actually done this regularly for years when you can make off-the-cuff assumptions based on an image?
>> Anonymous
>>185671
Seconded
>> Anonymous
Holey cow!
>> Anonymous
>>185288
God damn, it's just a cow. They probably don't give a shit.
>> Anonymous
>>185671
>>186015
Lol, and I thought I was the only UMDer geeky enough to be on 4chan still.
I guess I thought wrong. :3
>> Anonymous
It's disgusting. It just seems wrong to me, a cow is still a living thing.
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>>186061
the cow is in no pain at all. the cannula is a completly healed over and clean implant.
>> Anonymous
>>186061
it's all fun and games until someone lets an animal rights activist into the thread
>> Anonymous
>>186061
A living thing that will soon be cut up and served on my plate, so it doesnt really matter what happens before that fact.
>> Anonymous
I wonder if this can be used to feed cows things they normally wouldn't eat. They could make preflavored meat!

"By jove, this steak tastes of chicken!"
>> Anonymous
>>186092"By jove, this steak tastes of chicken!"

That is the most horrible thing I've ever heard. I'm eating cow because I don't want to eat something that tastes horrible.
>> Anonymous
>>186061

Fuck off, does it look like the cow gives a fuck?
>> Anonymous
>>184855
Veterinary use

A cannula is also used in an emergency procedure to relieve pressure and bloating in cattle due most commonly to their accidentally grazing wilted legume or legume-dominant pastures, particularly alfalfa, ladino, and red and white clover[3].

They are also a component used in the insertion of the Verichip.
>> Anonymous
oh god, the poster mentioning poking holes in the cows brought back memories of that one Kago /d/...


>=O
>> /i/nvaderess !3GqYIJ3Obs
>>185074
Seen it at UMass too... how many UMass /an/imals do we even have here??
>> Anonymous
>>185069
Humans don't technically have nerves in our stomachs either, that's why tactile pressure on the stomach lining isn't felt (do you feel the chunks of food in your stomach?)
However, pain is still triggered in the internal system in a different fashion (I forget what it's called atm) from nerve sensory.

I'm sure the cows probably feel a stomach ache like a human would.
>> Anonymous
>>186251
i'm on the north side of campus