Still hot!

It's another lovely day, bordering on the too hot, probably because of the humidity, and the fact that we're basically plastic wrapped whenever we do anything! Today was a fairly busy day till the end, and I got to get the early train again, so yay for getting home early! The first place we went to was a dairy that had a cow with peritonitis, potentially. She was a bit smelly and had a bit of gas in her abomasum, so we have her some jabs. What was so cool about this particular dairy was they used automatic milkers! I've heard that they are he best way to prevent mastitis and to increase milk yield but I hadn't actually seen them before!ao cool! I was very impressed. Next we went to a calving, and it was a highland!! Unfortunately the calf was dead (it was an Angus cross) which was quite sad, but since highlands are bred to be so hardy and easy to have if they have a calving problem it tends to be a big problem. Then we had some lunch and went out to do another cesarian. It's nice to see things like that again to reinforce how to do or so I can get better at knowing what to do. Afterwards we went to check on a cow that wasn't doing too well that looks like she had some sort of persistent lung infection. Lovely Belgian blue though, but really skinny.
Also I guess I forget to define the acronyms that I use so here's the ones I can remember using:
LDA=left displaced abomasum. This is what happens in dairy calves fed silage, basically not fed on grass, post calving. I think they are most likely to get it be first 3 months after calving. Basically the abomasum, which is a true gastric stomach in the cow, is able to move from midline to the left (or right) causing GO problems. You need to do surgery to taco it back in place so it stays. I'd write more about it but I don't think anyone's particularly interested in the inner workings of the rumen
RDA: right displaced abomasum. See above, though usually doesn't require surgery, though if you do do surgery the prognosis is not terribly good
PD: pregnancy diagnosis
I'll try to be better about it, I usually am on my phone and too lazy to write everything out, also my phone self corrects to a ninj of weird things. Also I think I've used atomic symbols for elements. So if I say else have a bonus of Se, Cu and I it's selenium, copper and iodine, etc.
Also I'm not sure if I've talked about "the routine" so I will now. After every fame we visit we have to lather up with either iodine or soap all over our water proofs to protect biosecurity. It can get a bit tedious, but I'm getting better at not missing poop, at first I felt like no matter how much I scrubbed I'd miss something!
I should also note that when you cut the peritoneum of a cow air comes rushing at your face. Now you'd think that would smell bad, intra-abdominal cow air, but it smells quite nice actually. I think it smiles minty :)