When people first said ‘you should put your body on the line for your job’, they most certainly had vets in mind!
My morning of preg-testing, while incredibly exciting in and of itself, gave me more excitement than I had expected thanks to one escaping cow.
The incident occurred while preg-testing my grandparents’ cows (which are lowlines – basically an Angus but a lot smaller). The experience was exciting enough as it was, as it was the first time I had preg-tested a lot of animals with real management decisions resting on my abilities.
Unfortunately some heifers (young cows) had broken into the paddock the breeding females were in so we had to draft them out, an easy enough task. Usually!
This photo is of some of the cows from a different day – this story is set firmly in overalls-and-gumboots territory
Seeing Practice 