I see the vets are in Limerick this weekend at the annual Cattle Association of Veterinary Ireland conference. After dinner in Thomond Park on Friday, the vets’ work schedule for Saturday includes both Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. When in Rome and all that.

They are not scheduled to watch Wales v France on Sunday morning because there is a gangrenous mastitis and rumen function in the way.

After mastitis it’s back to Japan v South Africa and the programme finishes with a session on the gyn stick. The gyn stick? I know, I never heard of it either. Apparently it’s a device like a hockey stick that you tie calving ropes on to that helps deliver calves not coming the way they should.

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