Nebraska Day 2- August 28, 2007

Today was a lot of fun! This morning we practiced our cow handling clinical skills by running a bunch of Freemartins (sterile cows) through a shoot. I was able to perform my first rectal palpation on a cow. I got to feel a bunch of organs such as the bladder and the rumen. I also took blood from the tail vein, passed a stomach tube, put on a halter and learned a bunch of knots. This afternoon we had a lecture and then had study time. A big thunderstorm rolled in during the late afternoon, it was so beautiful with all the lightening over the cornfields. During one of the breaks in the storm a bunch of us went outside and played some wall ball.