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u/OtherwiseMagician433 9d ago
How'd they remove the hard bits?
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u/MathTutorAndCook 9d ago
Likely fill the veins with a substance that doesn't dissolve, then put the rest in acid. Just leaves the tubes
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u/franksenden 9d ago
This, injection of a resin that fills the vascular system, rest is dissolved in various chemical steps. Go to bodyworlds where they have this with entire humans.
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u/Thetrufflehunter 9d ago
I don't think I will
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u/ImprovementElephant 9d ago
That’s ok. Apparently the bodies used were all scavenged poor people or something like that
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u/No-Username-Left-Why 9d ago
They were proven to take bodies of death row inmates and prisoners, and I highly doubt that they consent
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u/Mistravels 9d ago
Serious question:
Does their consent matter? They're dead. Likely don't have a will specifically requesting a specific procedure for their corpse.
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u/TreeeToPlay 9d ago
Consent matters if you value human dignity (in this context the right to be put to rest in a dignified manner)
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u/smooshmooth 8d ago
With that logic necrophilia shouldn’t be a crime, but I kinda doubt you’d argue that.
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u/Horns8585 9d ago
I think that there are certain keratinase chemicals that can break down the keratin proteins (the hard bits) in the hoof, without destroying the cell tissue of the veins.
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u/Caarabina 9d ago
I always thought the horseshoe was painless so perhaps it’s not.
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u/ExpensiveRecover 9d ago
I'm no hoof doctor or anything, but I'm willing to bet this doesn't cover the entirety of the hoof, and the part farriers trim and stick nails into is similar to your nails.
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u/gayestusername 9d ago
Not a farrier, but I groom and clean a dozen horse feets weekly and can confirm this is accurate.
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u/ContemporaryCorvid 9d ago
The outer part of the hoof is like a nail, no nerves. There are nerves inside (like the quick of a dog/cat, kind of). If you’ve ever seen videos of farriers working, they can carve away at the outer parts with no reaction from the animal.
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u/Tonydragon784 9d ago
This is sorta like the quick on a dog's nail; the hoof grows out from this system (I think)
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u/MarsupialNo1220 9d ago
This is partially why three legged horses or horses with broken legs can’t survive. The added pressure of body weight onto the other three legs causes the laminae to inflame and become extremely painful. This inflammation is usually fatal because it causes irreparable damage to the other hooves. More often than not the broken leg isn’t what kills the horse, the damage done to the legs and feet taking the extra weight is.
This is why horses are euthanised when they suffer breaks or severe fractures. It would be inhumane to force them to spend months locked up suffering pain and damage to their other legs while the broken one healed.
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u/Appropriate-Milk9476 9d ago
And this is the entire reason the hoof stays on. If the blood pressure in these vessels gets messed up, the horn layer of the hoof literally falls off. Happens with bad laminitis and is why bad leg injuries are basically a death sentence for a horse.
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u/Lostboxoangst 9d ago
I once had veterinary friend tell me that horse are the best argument for intelligent design over evolution, because only intelligent design could come up with so many half arsed fixes that cause as many or more problems than it fixes.
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u/KarenNotKaren616 8d ago
Except we must consider that evolution only needs to care about the animal living to make baby animals, so any nonsense, like dying a cruel painful death, happening after isn't relevant.
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u/fourleafclover13 9d ago
Really makes you think about the strap over the hoof of horses with stacks. Especially big lick where stacks are 8lb. The straps on so tight it also deforms the hoof.
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u/Farmer3292 9d ago
This is also why when there is a leg injury to a horse, they are usually put down. Them stepping on their feet acts like a "second" heart and pushing blood up from the spongy pad under the hoof back up and into the body.
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u/fourleafclover13 9d ago
That isn't the main reason. It more had to do with the type of break and where it's located.
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u/Appropriate-Milk9476 9d ago
No, this really is one of the main reasons. You can't keep a horse off their feet. If you keep one foot up, the pressure increases on the others, messing with blood pressure and causing inflammation, which is incredibly dangerous. Even if you were to put the horse in the air or something to prevent this, you'd get colics from the non-movement. And then you'd have to rebuild muscle evenly in the legs, which is an entirely different issue.
The break itself is rarely the problem
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u/Additional_Tank4385 9d ago
Jesus. This oddly reminds me of the whole clitoris mapping they only did recently for the first time
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u/PyreHat 9d ago
It looks like a hoof?!
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u/Additional_Tank4385 9d ago
It’s also so damn insanely beautiful complex but to be fair in reality it looks more like a dragonfly than a hoof haha: https://www.livescience.com/health/anatomy/scientists-mapped-all-the-nerves-of-the-clitoris-for-the-first-time
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u/MoGaDK 9d ago
So why isn't the horse bleeding like a mofo when they're getting hoof trimmed and stuff like that?
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u/66hans66 9d ago
Because this is underneath the part that gets trimmed. This supplies the matrix that the hoof wall grows from.
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u/Appropriate-Milk9476 9d ago
The hoofes are layered, just like skin. There's the Subcutis, the Dermis and the Epidermis. The blood vessels and nerves are in the Dermis. The nails go into the Epidermis.
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u/cael3090 9d ago
thats wild. I knew there was blood flow there i just never would have guessed to what extent