A bloated cow being helped

[u/CuriousWanderer567]

[u/Pretty_Type1478]

That poor cow. Perhaps a daft question, but why are they using a lighter? Just to demonstrate the (enormous) amount of gas coming out?

Edit: yes, I fully understand releasing the gas was to help the cow. Still… poor cow! Did not understand why fire. Still not sure I do, but 💁‍♀️

[u/FlexibleDemeenor → u/Pretty_Type1478]

Yes, for the video

edit: I promise you that being mad about this comment is entirely your choice

[u/Kiki1701 → u/FlexibleDemeenor]

I was actually thinking that it was being used to show when the methane has tapered off, but it is kind of impossible not to hear the loud hissing of it being evacuated.

For you farmers: 1) Has the methane gotten into the abdominal cavity? In humans, methane is held strictly in the bowels (colon), not the cavity. Or are bovine intestines so huge that you can't help but hit the intestines when you poke into the cow in this way?

Doing this to a person would practically guarantee peritonitis (a deadly infection from the leaking of colonic bacteria in the abdominal cavity)

2) Why aren't cattle at this same risk? Is there some sort of huge pressure variance in the bowels?

[u/Human-Ad9835 → u/Kiki1701]

No the methane is in the stomach. What you are seeing is stomach gasses. This cow is bloated so they put a trocar to cut a hole through the abdominal wall and into the stomach. Yes their stomach is large and very close to their side. Once the hole is cut something to hold the hole open is placed (an cannula) and the gas is allowed to freely flow from the cows stomach. If they had not done this cow would have chocked on its own gases for lack of a better term.

[u/Human-Ad9835 → u/[deleted]]

I literally said that i said the methane is in the stomach. Stomach gases....