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blue_lotus13) wrote2008-08-24 09:44 pm
blue_lotus13) wrote2008-08-24 09:44 pm
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Today I attended a goat conference for work. The day started off with a tour of one goat farm, and ended at a tour of a goat dairy, where we watched an artificial insemination demonstration.
The whole thing made me feel incredibly weird. Here I was, sitting in a garage with a bunch of goat breeders. The goat breeder's association had provided snacks, so we were even eating potato chips and sitting on lawn chairs.I watched with a crowd of people as the guy lubed up the specula, and inserted it into the goat's vagina. I even got to look at the goat's cervix.
Watching the whole procedure reminded me of a visit to the gynecologist.
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You get to hear weird stories from AI technicians. Apparently one sheep farmer got his whole flock to go into heat with hormones. A ram got loose, bust into the pen full of ewes in heat, and knocked up 89 of them. He then died three days later from overexertion.
The whole thing made me feel incredibly weird. Here I was, sitting in a garage with a bunch of goat breeders. The goat breeder's association had provided snacks, so we were even eating potato chips and sitting on lawn chairs.I watched with a crowd of people as the guy lubed up the specula, and inserted it into the goat's vagina. I even got to look at the goat's cervix.
Watching the whole procedure reminded me of a visit to the gynecologist.
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You get to hear weird stories from AI technicians. Apparently one sheep farmer got his whole flock to go into heat with hormones. A ram got loose, bust into the pen full of ewes in heat, and knocked up 89 of them. He then died three days later from overexertion.
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i watched a cow give birth at a dairy farm tour once and felt very strange the whole time. i guess it's not the same, but i felt like, this poor cow is encased in glass and we're all watching her...weird.
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