Palpation

PALPATION
  • Secure the ruminant animal in a trevis.
  • Keep your fist over the left flank in the paralumbar fossa, press the fist into the fossa.
  • After an initital pressure, withdraw the fist and repress it at the same place.
  • Feel the rumen movements on the fist and start counting for five minutes and express your observation as number of contractions per minute.
  • Normally 2 ruminal movements / 3minutes are observed.
  • In case of impaction, trauma and anorexia, ruminal motility is suspended.
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