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Farmers cut holes in live cows (4 photos + video)
Hell's tough!
The Swiss farmers cut a few holes of live cows, to observe the process of digestion.
Nowadays, farmers are at the disposal of the new technology, but some of them still use the old-fashioned approach to improve farming methods, writes MailOnline. For example, owners of private farms in Switzerland was inserted into the sides of the cannula 14 cows to observe processes occurring in the digestive tract of the animal.
According to the researchers, an 8-inch (20 cm) holes allow them to follow the minutest details of digestion and even to select material for the study.
After surgically inserted into the body of a cow special catheter, it is allowed time to make a food and then proceed to study. Farmers removed the protective cover and, using a cannula as a kind of window, have direct access to the rumen (Division Four-chamber stomach) of ruminants.
After this procedure, Swiss researchers are watching carefully digested mass of warm and occasionally run his hand into the inside of a cow to get out of the stomach grass and oat mixture.
The collected material thus carefully examined for the assimilation of various experimental mixtures of oats and creating a more balanced animal feed.
Animal-welfare advocates have criticized the actions of farmers, denouncing the practice of cutting out "windows" in living cows, calling this method cruel.
The researchers themselves do not see this is nothing barbaric method. They say that this practice was applied to 1920 and provides information, according to which such research significantly improve farming methods.
The Swiss farmers cut a few holes of live cows, to observe the process of digestion.
Nowadays, farmers are at the disposal of the new technology, but some of them still use the old-fashioned approach to improve farming methods, writes MailOnline. For example, owners of private farms in Switzerland was inserted into the sides of the cannula 14 cows to observe processes occurring in the digestive tract of the animal.
According to the researchers, an 8-inch (20 cm) holes allow them to follow the minutest details of digestion and even to select material for the study.
After surgically inserted into the body of a cow special catheter, it is allowed time to make a food and then proceed to study. Farmers removed the protective cover and, using a cannula as a kind of window, have direct access to the rumen (Division Four-chamber stomach) of ruminants.
After this procedure, Swiss researchers are watching carefully digested mass of warm and occasionally run his hand into the inside of a cow to get out of the stomach grass and oat mixture.
The collected material thus carefully examined for the assimilation of various experimental mixtures of oats and creating a more balanced animal feed.
Animal-welfare advocates have criticized the actions of farmers, denouncing the practice of cutting out "windows" in living cows, calling this method cruel.
The researchers themselves do not see this is nothing barbaric method. They say that this practice was applied to 1920 and provides information, according to which such research significantly improve farming methods.
