The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Friday again, another morning spent on the farm working with the dairy herd in diseases of ruminants. With Easter so close a lot of people have travelled home and so today’s group is really small. Last time was reproduction work Continue reading Dehorning and holes into the skull…
Fridays is either a day of lectures, or more often a morning spent on the farm working with the ruminant vets on cow health. Since the start of the semester this has included foot trimming, a digit amputation, a downed Continue reading Deep and personal with some cows…
Today’s Diary Entry Sponsored by Supreme Pet Foods So this afternoon I was invited out by a doctor to join in on some distance anaesthesia, in other words darting some animals. Now with my goal of working with wildlife this Continue reading A afternoon of chemical immobilisation… (Day 389)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Vet School Success Today was our first visit out to a working farm as part of our animal hygiene module, basically to let us put everything that we have covered in the module so Continue reading Visiting a cattle (cow) farm to look at animal hygiene… (Day 186)
Today’s Diary Entry sponsored by Pet Hooligans Nearly the end of the first week of my second semester here in vet school, today is the start of Animal Hygiene which is a module I have been looking forward to as Continue reading Animal Hygiene, or how to prevent environmental diseases in animals… (Day 158)
Today has been another long day, this morning went to Immunology and this afternoon has been about cows. Now today in immunology we started looking at phagocytosis, in basic terms this is when a cell “eats” another cell. Usually this Continue reading Phagocytosis, visiting the dairy farm, and snow… (Day 85)
Today has been amazing! I don’t know exactly where to start so I guess I will start at the beginning! Genetics started with more on the chromosome (it is a rather large and complex yet crucial part of all things Continue reading Genetics, Milk Tasting, Blood and Bone Marrow…(Day 39)
So I changed my topic at the last minute for tonight’s diary entry after coming across something that I consider to be extremely disturbing within animal welfare legislation. Animal Welfare on factory farming systems, though regulated relies on the inspection Continue reading Illegal to film animal cruelty undercover in Iowa