Comments on: Hole-y Cow

By: hilendar

hilendar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:04:43 +0000

You can see this on TV. On an episode of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show, the host, Mike Rowe, visits the University of Arkansas where they have a Jersey cow with a fistula. They even put a camera inside to watch the digestion!

By: IAMLEGEND

IAMLEGEND — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:14:48 +0000

They have been doing this for a long time at Mississippi State University. I remember going on a field trip in kindegarten and sticking my hand in one of these cows at MSU.

By: robbmyers

robbmyers — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:45:22 +0000

Up here in Fairbanks, we have a research at the university that studies musk oxen. They have a musk ox with a fistula. From what I understand, it’s not really any different from the ones for cows. They just have to be a little more careful when taking samples. They say that the musk oxen are, shall we say, “semi-domesticated.”

By: enar

enar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:45:07 +0000

it was good.. through fistulation, man can improve the livestock production. i hope Central Luzon State University vetmed students headed by Maam Darlene Fe Castro can perform that too.. it will be a great experiment by batch teratogens.. Ahehehe. Go CLSU vets,,

By: CassandraJ

CassandraJ — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:13:24 +0000

I remember my grade 5 teacher telling me about the guys with the hole in his stomach and to this day I still kinda have nightmares about it.

Not saying it’s wrong to do but it just makes me cringe.

By: a1c

a1c — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:37:57 +0000

I can also confirm the fistula cow/s at University of California at Davis AKA Berkeley w/ Cows.

By: GregDDC

GregDDC — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:30:08 +0000

Heh, foul-smelling jets of bovine stomache acid 20 feet. I gotta see this slide!

By: Cathryn

Cathryn — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:37:49 +0000