“Hello? We’ve got a newborn calf who doesn’t look good… Mind coming out?” Two students and I gather some milk replacer and jump into the truck, and speed off towards the small hobby beef operation. We clamber out of the truck, our many layers keeping us warm in the late winter weather but making us […]
Herd Health Checks: A Vet Student’s Diary
Hour 1: Two classmates and I carpool to a 10,000-cow dairy, arriving at 8 am to catch the vet as he comes out of a monthly meeting with the herdsmen. The vet is eager to begin work, so he passes out skeins of rectal sleeves, pulls on the ultrasound goggles, and opens the door to […]
For the Good of Science
With my stethoscope on my head and ready to use, I pulled the dog in closer and began to listen to her heart. As a very playful dog, she wasn’t willing to sit still for any lengthy amount of time and kept trying to pull away. As I slid my stethoscope around on her thorax, […]
