Fetal love

I got to cut into a fetal calf today in repro lab after most everyone else had left, and I'm quite proud of myself that I was able to identify most all of the visible organs! Plus the coolness of cutting a pregnant tract and identifying the pieces of that and then identifying the beginnings of the reproductive tract in the fetus. It was at about 120 days, so very very tiny but there all the same. There was another tract at 90 days where there were twins, a boy and a girl so the girl would have been a freemartin. We didn't cut the amnion in that one, just pulled back the chlorion so they looked like they were floating. We also looked at udders, which I never realized were quite so heavy. I guess I did, on some level, but it really hits home when you have to turn the thing over! Ours was around 60 lbs, I think, and was so fresh it was still oozing milk. That was a bit disconcerting, this 60lb hunk of flesh the size of a couple of turkeys still oozing milk when you went poking into the cisterns. All in all very fun and much better than the fetal pig in anatomy that I still say wasn't fetal. It was about twice as big as everyone else's and had food in the stomach and feces that we had to clear out because they kept oozing everywhere.

Comments open, but anyone telling me this lab is awful and I should be ashamed of myself for enjoying cutting up fetal animals, be aware you will be deleted. I'm comfortable with my relationship with the disposible scalpel, thanks.