Slow day

Today was a pretty slow day. I started out the day going to a farm and pregnancy diagnosing about 56 cows with the scanner to see if they were pregnant or needed to go back to the bull. It was nice to see some dairy cows for a change since so far I've been seeing mostly beef, and it was cool to look into the goggles of the scanner! Ones that were cycling well but weren't in valve got stickers on their hips so the farmer could tell later if they were actually pregnant but not enough to detect or the bull gets them again. If the bull goes to them then the silver bit of the sticker gets rubbed off and you can see if easily from far away and know that she wasn't pregnant and if it doesn't then you can assume that she was pregnant this time and gets re-scanned. I went on this call with a more senior vet and he was asking me a bunch of questions about repro phys, scary, but he said I knew more than he thought I would, since I haven't done any clinical work yet so that's good hopefully!
Then we went back and I went on another call to do fertility testing in some bulls again. This time I got to rectal the bull and feel the seminal vesicles and the prostate and the base of the penis, so that was co! And I set up for the first set of slides, so I was nice to reinforce all that. Then I looked at the slides in the lab to look at te sperm to see if there are any developmental problems with them so we can tell the farmer how we think his bulls will perform. Also on the farm we treated A few cows for matritis. Basically you examine the uterus by putting your ark in to see what kind of stuff is in there. One had some puss in it, but wasn't too bad and the others weren't bad either. Then you get a long tube like a straw that you feed in through the cervix and then push in a tube of cephalosporin into the uterus to kill any bacteria causing the problem. Then we made a quick pit stop at a farm
To re-measure some bull testicles to make sure the farmer could insure his bull. They were up to breed standard! Other than that pretty slow day, but it happens, hopefully tomorrow will be busy!