Had our first rectal palpation today!
So basically, you...
1. Glove up your non dominant hand (coz you want to leave your dominant hand clean to do other stuff)
2. Lub up with heaps of lubricant
3. Grab the tail with your dominant hand
4. Form a kind of closed puppet mouth configuration with the hand that you are gonna use to palpate
5. Push your hand into the rectum of the cow
6. Locate the cervix and feel for fetus in the uterine tract!
Heaps of poo was being expelled when I was palpating the cow.
Plus a fart. lol.
But I just have to keep my hand in there and not dodge if not, once I pull out my hand, air will be drawn in and it will be harder for me to palpate again.
And I felt a foetus head!
Was literally stroking its head while my hand was in there.
And i could feel it moving.
Super cool.
It was around a size of a cat so it will be roughly around 5 months old.
By the time my hand was in there for maybe 2 mins, it was mostly numbed up already coz the cow kept contracting its rectum!
Hahaha
That's me trying to find my way to the cervix and uterine tract through the pile of poo in there.
Life of a vet.....
Me: Look what you have done to my hand.
Cow: "guilty face"
