The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Vet School Success Another Thursday and another day of animal hygiene, today we started looking at how temperature is managed and the different ways that heat is lost from the buildings. We then started Continue reading Building plans and construction of animal houses (Day 172)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Supreme Petfoods Well today has been long, Anatomy lecture this morning was at 7:15am and I’ve just got back this evening from self study at 9pm. The good news is that I got a Continue reading The Intestines and visiting the hospital (Day 171)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pet Webinars This week the bee’s lecture was cancelled so this morning I got a little extra time to work on my Emergency First Aid for Animals book which was pretty cool and is Continue reading Fish farms and the function of glucose… (Day 170)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Find Pet Boarding Through the past semester I’ve come to realise that though the subjects are taught seperately that they are intrinsically linked. We’ve just finished the function of the digestive system in physiology Continue reading The salivary glands of the digestive tract… (Day 169)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Spikes World The end of my second week back in my second semester of vet school and today is a killer. Animal Nutrition started at 8am and I am solidly in lectures and practicals Continue reading Microbiology, Nutrition, and Emergency Fluid Therapy… (Day 166)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Vet School Success The weeks nearly over and its time for Animal Hygiene again (check out last weeks diary to learn what is animal hygiene) and today we are looking at ventilation in animal Continue reading Getting the ventilation right for farm animals… (Day 165)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Supreme Pet Foods Well today was my first anatomy credit test of the semester and covered the stuff I learnt about the animal mouth last week. We’ve a different lecturer this semester so there Continue reading The stomachs, and the start of “Horse Riding”… (Day 164)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pet Webinars Well today started with Diseases of Bee’s which has a excellent lecturer, we moved to a new larger classroom today and were greeted by a beehive (minus the bee’s!). The modern beehive Continue reading Inside the Bee hive with honey bee’s and an introduction to Diseases of Fish (Day 163)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Find Pet Boarding Start of my second week of my second semester, last week vanished in a blur and this week I have tried to plan my time better to get a lot more Continue reading Histology of the complex ruminant stomach (Day 162)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Scampers Pet Shop The end of week 1 of semester 2, this week has literally flown by and I am honestly not sure where my time has vanished too! Its been interesting as now Continue reading Animal Nutrition, and the start of Special Bacteriology (Day 159)