The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
One of the reasons I love this university is how practical it is, and how you are pushed to think for yourself. We were left with a bull calf with a large lump on its neck and told to come Continue reading Sheep scanning, and a lump…
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pet Hooligans Well today is again long with my 8am lecture then practical finishing at 7pm however at least we get to be hands on with (grumpy and tired) animals during this practical. Last Continue reading Nutrition and some Clinical Diagnostics (Day 379)
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 is sponsored by Scampers Pet Store This week in animal hygiene we started with our double lecture:double practical system as next week instead of being in the classroom we are out visiting a cow and sheep farm. Continue reading Cow hygiene and some reproductive physiology (Day 179)
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)
So continuing on the nutrition topic, tonight I am writing a little bit on herbivores which include a lot of farm animals, horses, and rabbits. When talking about herbivores the easiest way to define it is non-meat eaters, or eaters Continue reading What makes a Herbivore, the science behind Ruminants!