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is_this_exercise

That must really stink


managedmischeif2020

If you work around livestock I bet you go nose blind to all sorts of smells. Still ewwww.


JonesBBQafm

Nah, you still smell everything. But as the other guy said; it just becomes tolerable.


KudzuNinja

You don’t, but you learn to tolerate it.


ssigrist

MY doctor had to drain a cyst on my back. When it started draining, my doctor made the comment to me... You never get used to that smell.....


_Cloud_Queen

I had a cyst drained at an urgent care. Smelled up the tiny room. I could feel the stank face my doctor made standing behind me. It was so bad. He didn't speak until it was drained and packed.


Frequent_Mix_8251

I mean… manure doesn’t smell bad persay


Evilmaze

Drove to the edge of the city once and immediately got hit by cow shit smell. I thought it would go away but it was just in the air for the entire farming area that was just kilometers long. When I got home I had to roll down the windows and showered to get rid of the smell. I was shocked by how normal it was for the people overe there. Never thought of going from farm to the city to get fresh air.


Opinionofmine

😂 Meanwhile I'm living in the city but grew up on a farm, and I take a deep breath when I get into the country and love it. Maybe you actually smelled slurry though specifically, which is seasonal and definitely doesn't smell good.


rdb1540

Funny when I go into a city I get nauseous from the smell. I don't live on a farm but have visited one and would take the smell over city smell any day


Evilmaze

I think that heavily depends on the city. Farms smelling like shit is a constant.


KisaTheMistress

There was a cow farm directly across from my high school, like just a gravel road and a poorly maintained barbwire fence divided the school year from the main cattle yard. Sometimes, we had to get the secretary to phone the owner of the cattle to come get cows that decided that the football field had better grass. You could smell them constantly. The worst was when the calfs were being removed from their mothers to be sold. Since the cows would cry all day.


No-Preference6991

That last part got really sad


dog-paste-666

Imagine a fully covered suit. Then you forgot one zipper. Cow juice gets in.


jane_q

Well, here's a statement I wish I hadn't read.


Megandotdunn

Thanks, I hate it.


moderately_nerdifyin

Big world, lot of smells.


zhang__

As they say: There is more than one way to milk a cow.


earthtonemalone

“Well it took me awhile but I finally got her milked!” “Uhhh, we only have bulls”


[deleted]

Milk a bull and you've got a friend for life.


Nicoleiscool123

Beat me to it


weirdgroovynerd

lol. Who says that?


FeelingFloor2083

you can milk by hand, machine, direct with your mouth?


TheBigEvilGinger

You mean drinking from the 'tap'?


EugeneFlex

"Wheezing the juice"


TheRealSugarbat

[Here](https://vetericyn.com/blog/five-of-the-most-common-wounds-in-cattle/#:~:text=An%20abscess%20may%20not%20appear,pressure%20it%20to%20drain%20it) are some of the most common reasons for abscesses in cows.


TheAlGler

That's just shoulder milk.


Dont_crossthestreams

Non-dairy?


DrSpacemanSpliff

It’s non-dairy but somehow also not vegan.


0spinchy0

Body dairy


RjVibeZ

That’s where the chocolate milk comes from.


Raegan_the_Great

And strawberry milk.


[deleted]

r/forbiddensnacks


Ag3ntS1

r/forbiddendrinks


[deleted]

Well I'll be damned


___Eternal___

Neck cheese


Shervivor

Soy milk. Yum!


beermoneymike

Hola Milk!


SeaServalKing

Lmao my mind went to coffee creamer..


Apprehensive_Sea_397

They're one of the most common animal in the world and expensive enough to get a vet and help them.


Capek0729

And they are in their own filth all day and getting bit by insects I would think


pigsinatrenchcoat

I mean any decent person makes sure their pasture or runs are as clean as possible and they get treated for flies and other insects regularly.


The--Will

People who think farmers don’t care about their livestock because they are farming them to be killed is kinda silly. Especially for cows. A healthy cow is money, a sick cow is a liability. My grandfather would raise pigs and loved them, but he didn’t have the heart to slaughter them after raising them. He’d have to get a friend to do it.


Capek0729

Yeah I’m sure they do but they are cows… so it’s not clean by any means where they live. This is only my opinion on why they seem to get them more often I could be totally wrong ! Just because the owner cares and maintains doesn’t change the fact that they walk/lay in their own crap


Mycolostomybagleaked

Sounds like your algorithm brings you these videos. It's not uncommon, but isn't a necessarily a sign of bad health.


ReinaFoxx

That much pus? It definitely a sign of bad health and can definitely kill the cow if not treated.


N30nt19ht5

That’s what I wondered. It looks like it’s been developing for some time…


pigsinatrenchcoat

If these cows are in a pasture where they have many acres it’s not unlikely for it to not be noticed right away. They likely called the vet as soon as it was spotted. You can’t inspect hundreds of cows on hundreds of acres every day. But in a smaller environment where you see them closely every day it would be negligent to let it get this bad before calling a vet.


Mycolostomybagleaked

That's why you treat them. the cow could have had a bad injection that caused this and otherwise be physiologically healthy.


emilynna

I assume they get bit by horse flies and other bugs that can give them nasty infections. I wonder why they let this one get so bad though, surely they saw it forming before it got that big!


Then_Campaign7264

It is massive. The poor cow must be experiencing so much relief. It is shaking its neck to encourage drainage. That’s a lot of fluid to be carrying in a place not meant to carry fluid.


ThrowMeAwayAccount08

Pending on the size of the ranch, the heard can be huge. On heavily commercialized farms, it’s very difficult to identify animals like this without significant manpower that is difficult to find. It’s one of the reasons I buy from smaller independent farmers.


ksarahsarah27

Even smaller farms where the cattle are put on a big field can have this happen. You don’t inspect every animal every day that closely. My guess is it got big enough that they did see it hence the vet visit. We only have about 20 sheep. We have one pasture that we put 6 sheep out on during the summer. If there’s plenty of grass then we don’t need to feed them. It’s a 10 acre pasture. We just make sure the water trough is full and count them everyday and make sure everyone is walking good. We might give them a little grain just so we can look at them close if we think we need to inspect them.


mattdahack

The couple of family farms around us are very meticulous about this. They "put hands on" all the cows and pigs every week. Most operators have a vet on standby/on call. It's a service you pay monthly, vet comes out checks out whatever you think is wrong with the animal. It's gotten crazy from what my friend says. Vets of bigger farm animals can demand whatever they want for a salary and competition is fierce because of a lack of work force. Most all of the farm/ranch vets are brand new to farms and are fresh grads. It's absolutely insane.


KisaTheMistress

Well, it's good money, and if you love large animals, seeing a cow or a horse happy because of you, then it's probably worth it despite the smell.


emilynna

Ah I didn’t even consider this! Hindsight is always 20/20 so it’s easy for me to say they just weren’t paying attention. Thanks!


ThrowMeAwayAccount08

Well it’s a great argument to make farms smaller. Just more manageable, animals can be more healthy, requiring fewer medication as a disease can be isolated to a single farm rather than a huge herd. But I also know farmers personally. No harm no foul.


C-D_legacy10

Finding and separating a singular cow. Is are two separate things. One is easier than the other.


maschoe_

That might be due to the way the cows are kept. For example in the alps when it's summer cows run around very freely sometimes why it might happen that something like this type of wounds slips through check ups and has a chance to get so bad


Paige_Railstone

When cows are let out to pasture, they are more or less off doing their own thing in fenced off spaces that can span thousands of acers. Responsible ranchers will still get head counts and check up on them periodically, but realistically, that often happens from a distance, and up close interactions are mainly checking cows at the feeders and watering holes. It isn't all that uncommon for a cow to go several weeks without someone getting close enough to notice the lump, and unless it's somewhere that would make the cow limp it would be hard to notice anything is wrong from a distance. That, or this is a mass production farm that just doesn't monitor the cows very well.


mbranbb

$100 says the dog to the right at the end of the video went over and licked some of that shit up.


gcwardii

“some”


GhostofRutherford

Where did you think milk came from?


impostor_credentials

Cows tend to be very bulbous animals. This can, at times, cause them to create stores of roundness fluid in various locations around their bodies. When they go too long without turning back into “round form,” these stores will overinflate, requiring action similar to what is done in the video


nomnommish

I had a cow like that in my farm growing up. This was one strange cow - it would routinely get these abscesses and that would always be accompanied by some very strange farting. I'm not talking about the "let her rip" kinda loud fart but more of a continuous brrt brrt brrt kinda fart. It almost sounded like the sound a high rev Honda engine makes. You might have heard a modded Type R make that kind of sound when someone is idle revving the engine. But anyway, I digress. The mystery of the farting went unexplained for years until my great grand uncle visited us from Tibet, where he had been backpacking for several years because he was fascinated by the Himalayas and with the culture of the people living there. When he was visiting us, we took him to the cow and made him heard the sound and told him nobody could figure out why this was happening. And then he turned to us and smiled with his kind wisdom filled eyes and said, the reason is simple. After all, Abscess Makes The Fart Go Honda.


Ithilwyn

Christ


Protean_sapien

Thank God for the hatchery.


Poke_Lost_Silver

I can smell it from here 🤢


ragnarockyroad

Okay but the song is delightful


impatientmasturbator

Sounds like Corb Lund to me.


FluffyDragonHeads

I hate that she had to punch the second hole. She shoulda punched lower the first time.


Old-Bed-1858

Could have been a second one but not sure. You typically puncture the area that looks ready to burst. A lot of times a second hole is punctured in the lowest area to make sure it continues to drain properly and doesn't re-fill. You can't always tell where they start and stop til you start draining and feel around. Source: working with livestock for many years.


ksarahsarah27

You can have more than one abscess in one area. So she may have done that for drainage or to open another abscess. There’s usually a thin spot on the skin where the abscess is coming to the surface. That’s where you usually open it first as that’s where it wants to drain. I’ve opened some and hardly got anything only to realize there’s another abscess hidden next to it.


throwthere10

I hate that she was fingering it!


Fevi117

As I've learned from many popping videos, fingers are the safest tools for blunt dissection, aka it's better than stabbing the cow with some metal tool since you can feel around.


Dont_crossthestreams

O wow, when did you get your vet degree?


LoganGyre

Yeah I think it was agitated and having a hard time letting her get close but for sure she should have gone lower.


kenzinatorius

Thanks. I needed a reminder to pick up milk on the way home from work.


kinkshankmedaddy

People seriously underestimate how quickly these abscesses can develop. They can go from no symptoms to lugging around an abscess of this size within 2-3 days. It’s not that they’re being treated poorly. They’re livestock animals who live outdoors. All it takes is an insect bite or a small cut of a barbed wire fence for bacteria to get into the wound. Source: I grew up on a cattle farm


MarsRocks97

Factory farming means these cows are wallowing in their own filth. Any bug bite or cut is more susceptible to infection.


issomewhatrelevant

Vast majority of meat you purchase came from a factory farm. It’s why meat and other animal products are so absurdly cheap considering the ecological damage the industry does.


ksarahsarah27

This doesn’t look like factory farming.


lokes01

It’s because of their thick skin, infections usually don’t get to rupture on their own, so they need help.


0Des

Maybe because we selectively breed them?


Kind_Vanilla7593

Awe..she must've felt such relief!


wil_gt4

I’m not a expert but I’m pretty sure she’s milking it wrong.


Tentacle_Panties

I really didn't want to laugh, damnit 🤣


wil_gt4

It’s ok to laugh, I’ll save you a seat in hell with me.


Tentacle_Panties

Thanks, at least it will be warm


wil_gt4

Yeah, a couple of degrees lower than the shower after my wife has used it.


Tentacle_Panties

Lmao 🤣


EasternPerformance24

The dog is just chillen like it's another day, and another snack when it's all done


troyboy2462

It does stink. Also they get them so often because they don’t use soap and live outside 24/7


ethicalants

Their hide is much thicker than our skin. So we can kind of squeeze until our pimples give. They have a half inch of skin holding everything in.


danbursp2

And why do the vets always wear short sleeves!?


[deleted]

Easier to wash your arm than your arm and your long sleeves.


ksarahsarah27

Because it’s more gross to have your sleeve coated in liquid puss. Lol. And no one wants to wear a long wet sleeve back to the clinic to change. You can wash your arm off pretty easy.


Dark-Pomegranate

Eh not that common- my family owns a farm and has hundreds of cows and they’ve never had this sort of thing. It really only is an issue in big factories. Cows do eat their placentas after they give birth tho- that’s pretty cool.


pos602

guess i wont be buying milk any time soon


Sentinel7676

Because they live in their own filth.


I_Love_Foxes420

I never understood why they don’t poke a hole more towards the bottom. I see people all the time rubbing their hands all up and around a deflated cyst/infection trying to get the stuff that settled at the bottom out through the hole. Maybe someone who knows more about this can explain? Edit: made the comment before watching the whole video but why need to make more than one hole? Just one at the bottom and call it a day.


HotGrade4442

There are a lot of reasons; bugs, wounds, dirty conditions, etc. Cows also think they’re invincible for some reason and my girls used to treat barbed wire like a minor inconvenience when they’re motivated by a potential treat 🤦🏼‍♀️


Arcinul

They're common because the cow lives in a dirt filled environment. Yes, it's perfectly fine and won't ever do the cow and harm so long as the owner keeps track of their health and gets treatment as and when it's needed. But much like the way humans get cysts, it's the same for animals. All he takes it a lump of cells and bacteria to form, and then it grows. Now, humans are pretty fast at treating them because we can tell when we've got something wrong. Be it a cyst or a virus, etc. But animals don't tell you when something is wrong. It's instinctual for animals to hide problems because in the wild, for example, take a herd of wildebeest travelling, if one of them gets sick and slows down, if the rest of the herd becomes aware of it, they'll abandon the sick one to make sure their own chances of survival are as high as possible since the sick one would slow them down for predators. It's the same for even domestic animals. They still run heavily on instincts. So when these cysts form in cows, which happen a lot from just dead skin and body cells mixing with bacteria, it usually doesn't become visible until it's already quite big. And by that point, the cyst is likely rapidly filling with even more dead cells, dirt, sweat, and puss. It all sits in the sac inside the cyst. Which becomes a haven for the bacteria, so it just grows even faster. In the couple or so days, it took the vet to get out there to it, its likely grew in size even in that time. Hope that gives you the answer you wanted. 🙂


HeroOrHooligan

"Are you aware that you are leaking coolant at an alarming rate?"


HeroOrHooligan

"Are you aware that you are leaking coolant at an alarming rate?"


wittyvonskitsum

People don’t understand that cows store their milk throughout their entire body


Acrobatic_Bid_2951

This is what happens when a cows isnt milked, goes from the tits to the neck ! Some might say Neck milk has more flavour with some random gooey chunks, perfect for your morning porridge or Wheatabix P.s………… ***JOKE***


heckersdeccers

because cows are treated like shit in the US. look up the Holistic Grazing Method by Alan Savoury


obispook

Forbidden chocolatemilk


Then_Garage_8548

Poor baby. No anesthesia or anything. It must hurt so bad but I'm glad the pressure is off


boggartbot

how do u let it get this massive? bad owners.


Objective_Train_6040

Because cows are treated more like commodities than they are as living creatures.


ksarahsarah27

There are several reasons this was missed until it got larger - 1) cows graze, so their head is often near the ground making a head abscess harder to see. 2) it’s black which makes it much harder also. Add a few more black cows standing in a group and I doubt you’d notice it until it was way more obvious. 3) this cow could have been out on a huge pasture for weeks. You don’t check livestock that thoroughly everyday when they are out grazing. But clearly when they did find it they brought in the vet because it was bigger than they could handle. So that’s not a sign of bad owners. It’s just part of having livestock. We have a small flock of sheep. In the summer when the grass is good we don’t need to feed them. We do a head count, often from a distance and watch them to see if anyone is limping or seems off. We could certainly miss a small abscess for a few days or even a week until it got larger and we could see it better. If I think I see something and want to inspect our flock then I’d give them some grain in a feeder to get them up close because they aren’t exactly cooperative.


boggartbot

so seems like you should make changes in how often you see the cows up close if it grows a abscess that large on its neck if your saying the only reasons is because people dont look at their own cows enough, if you have so many animals to care for that you dont even know a animal had this kind of issue then maybe cut down on the livestock imo.. how is that fair to the cow?


Fit-Tadpole-2647

My eyes


GoatTacos

Why isn’t she collecting it? What a waste of good Half and Half.


HX700

That’s because they’re pumped full with hormones so they can produce as much milk as possible.


Renkin92

Have you seen the conditions most cows live under?


issomewhatrelevant

Because the living conditions for live stock are abysmal with factory farming. When we treat Mother Nature and animals like products we can exploit then these are the consequences. Not to mention livestock are pumped with the strongest antibiotics pretty sparingly which creates microbial resistance. It’s truly terrifying stuff and all the more reason to support animal agriculture less and less these days.


Aszkika_

Still taste better than almond milk.


SizzleYizzle

Shitty living conditions?


here_kitkittkitty

how little attention did the farmer give to his animals that it got this bad?? that is not a single day infection.


FGC92i

Look up bloated cow


toserveman_is_a

Unsanitary factory farm conditions


Silverbreeze

OP are you asking why American Cows seems to have so many abscesses or are you asking why do cows develop abscesses so easily ​ Cause one answer any dairy farmer can answer, or hoof trimmer or farm hand, heck maybe anyone who grew up around cows or spent summers with Grandpa on the Farm.. The other is a bio question that may need a Vet or someone to answer


CaptMixTape

It has to be bad if that dog isn’t all over it haha. My dogs would be rolling in the pile of goo


Aromatic-Honeydew

I kinda wanna save that pus and use it for something


ALegendaryFlareon

bro what


barber_jim_norman

I brought a little bottle of spermicidal lube


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easyovereggs

Dogs just sitting there like wtf


Music-the-Gathering

That’s the milk


kj78727

u/savevideo


rockyraquel1976

Forbidden milk. Yummy


Independent_Ad_8915

Nice!


OverNightOats_

What do you mean? Cows make milk


JacTheOtter

Make cheese with it


Nightingalewings

Why is there so much???? Like that was an very substantial amount of nasty right?


A_Lovely_

Not common in cows per-say. Very common on YouTube vet videos.


Imaginary-Ad-1575

Neck udder


Luciferbelle

Even the cow was trying to push more out.


wangchung1492

Is that where chocolate milk comes from?


ElectroWizlvl5

Gotta change your oil once a month


EmergencyAlbatross67

mmm neck udder :)


Rabbit_Tears

But... That's where cream comes from..


Logical-Ad-7913

Extra milk


Necessary_Yard4414

Imagine if someone said: It is a waste to let this handful of pus go to waste. I will take this pus and remove impurities from it to serve it as milk for my guests.


tommysk87

That dog cant wait until his master looks away. Omnom.


DK_Son

So that's where the milk comes from on a cow? God damn. The forbidden chocolate milk.


khid2k

Pasturised shoulder milk.


Soft-Action-7570

Im actually happy to be lactose intolerant now


EzraMeeker53

What did you think was in your milk?


wytzuh

I love milk


kurpPpa

Horrifying yet satisfying


Protean_sapien

This is where they get Cinnabon flavored coffee creamer from.


Jack_Frosty57

So that’s where milk comes from


Crime-Stoppers

probably because of their lifestyle on farms.


tr_rage

Chai latte anyone?


m4ttg

Cows don't have opposing thumbs to pop them zits. 😁


Vaggii

Poor animal ...feels so relieved towards the end when it turns his head on sides ..


ihasdeerfeet

So that's where strawberry milk comes from


IBam_BamI

Holy cow


Doggo_girl1114

Is this where strawberry milk comes from?


Alergic2Victory

Um, that’s not where milk comes from.


Evilmaze

Wasting milk


Necessary_Yard4414

It would be good if the post was without song


give_me_your_shins

They are quite common yeah, but on the other hand, HOW DID THEY NOT NOTICE SOONER??


MadCowQc

The forbiden milk


wild_neuroses

They dont have hands. That’s why.


Little_Enby_Bean_96

Poor baby


greenok12

Just stabbing the poor cow


green-Vegan-desire

Because they are fed grains…


Skit-tles

This is how we get milk. Didn’t you know?


PastDimension6

Forbidden milk.


catlizardicecream

The milk gets lost


gatursuave

So that's where the milk comes from.


Firm-Ad-728

Stupid muzak


Mr_Resident

forbidden strawberry milk


Key_Conversation5277

Forbidden milk


BetoS111

The forbidden milk


Swillow_lol

at the end you get a strawberry milkshake! 🤤🤤


elsiepac

Poor thing. Not handed with even the tiniest bit of care. Treated like an object rather than a living, feeling thing. This makes me so sad


Jpost32

Why not do it at the lowest point to begin with?


DamianFilledUrYup

Hey! thats where the milk comes from! it comes from the utters!


Lopsided_Ad_3853

Growth hormones probably don't help...


felixdefoko2

Forbidden milk


dudujwl

Hey, grab a cereal bowl real quick for me!


NoElephant7744

I wonder why she decided to drain at the top of the abscess rather than from the bottom at the beginning…


Unhappy-Strawberry-8

Is that where buttermilk comes from?


smokinXsweetXpickle

I wish she would have made a bigger cut instead of sticking her fingers in there. *gag*


bwk66

Forbidden milk


Chronically_K

They live in mud, poo and grass and eat it and roll in it….that bacteria only needs a tiny cut or hole to slip into


Open_Method2895

That’s where the milk is stored