farm vet roger blowey had a rather different take on the footage.n, in my experience, would be fairly common practice. is there not a potential to damage the hips? i suppose there must be a potential, but i mean, it's done so commonly without any damage. and isn't it also likely that the cow is in some distress or pain when that's happening? absolutely, definitely. yeah. yeah, definitely. so what you have to balance is the stress and the pain of that over a short period of time to be put into a nice environment versus the alternative, which would be to be left where she was. when animals are beyond help, the law requires them to be put out of their suffering promptly. but that didn't always happen on this farm. this cow was severely ill and in need of attention. a vet who was treating another cow at the farm was asked about it. have you seen the other cow? the vet that was present acknowledged that they are suffering and advised prompt euthanasia. but instead of paying the vet to euthanise the dying cow there and then, the cow was left until a slaug

farm vet roger blowey had a rather different take on the footage.d be fairly common practice. is there not a potential to damage the hips? i suppose there must be a potential, but i mean, it�*s done so commonly without any damage. and isn�*t it also likely that the cow is in some distress or pain when that�*s happening? absolutely, definitely. yeah. yeah, definitely. so, what you have to balance is the, the stress and the pain of that over a short period of time to be put into a nice environment versus the, the alternative, which would be to be left where she was. when animals are beyond help, the law requires them to be put out of their suffering promptly. but that didn�*t always happen on this farm. this cow was severely ill and in need of attention. a vet, who was treating another cow at the farm, was asked about it. have you seen the other cow? the, the recumbent one on the fl... - that couldn't... you know, the one who's lying on the straw. - oh, yeah, yeah. the vet that was present acknowledged that they are suffering and advised prompt euthan