True story----
Several years ago I went on a farm call with a vet friend of mine. It was an evening emergency for a down cow at a dairy.
When we pulled in the drive the hired hand was in the drive and pointed us to a barn. Well, there was a gate in front of the barn door and the manure inside the barn was EVEN WITH THE TOP OF THE GATE. We managed to get over the gate into the barn with all the stuff we thought we needed from the car. We see the down cow and head that way. I suddenly hear this UGGGGH and turned to see the vet waist deep in a slop hole. Good thing it wasn't me waist deep in the muck, it would have taken ropes, chains, pulleys and a backhoe to get me out!!
We hoist the vet out of the muck and THEN the hired hand says: "Watch where you walk, there are three more of those holes." I said: "You go first!"
I think if we looked around in the muck we would probably have found bovine bones. Unbelievable place. It was owned by a couple that were both physicians. Needless to say the vet made a few phone calls and they weren't selling anymore milk.
I can't be the pot calling the kettle black. As I sit here it is pouring rain and I only have the manure out of one of four barns.
Everyone have a good day,
Malinda